Conservation, Markets & the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa: Commodifying the ‘Wild’ (Future Rural Africa, 3)
Author: by Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig (Editor, Contributor), Dr Alfons Wabahe Mosimane (Editor, Contributor), Dr Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa (Editor, Contributor), Dr Selma Mekondjo Lendelvo (Editor, Contributor), Dr Léa Lacan (Contributor), Dr Linus Kalvelage (Contributor), Clemens Greiner (Contributor), Professor Dr Javier Revilla-Diez (Contributor), Carolin Hulke (Contributor), Sthembile Ndwandwe (Contributor), Dr Jessica-Jane Lavelle (Contributor), Dr Eric Mutisya Kioko (Contributor), Hauke-Peter Vehrs (Contributor), Professor Rachel Wynberg (Contributor), Dr Lee John Hewitson (Contributor), Dr Selma Lendelwo (Contributor), Chimbioputo Ezequiel Fabiano (Contributor), Margaret Angula (Contributor), Professor Kenneth Kamwi Matengu (Contributor), Dr Joseph E. Mbaiwa (Contributor), Johannes Dittmann (Contributor), Dr Liobia Lenhart (Contributor), Professor Dr Ibrahim Maina Waziri (Contributor), Professor Sian Sullivan (Contributor), Dr Martin Kasanaga Shapi (Contributor), Prof. Dr. Detlef Müller-Mahn (Contributor), Selma Sussana Ndeenda Kosmas (Contributor), Michael Mugo Kinyanjui (Contributor) & 26 more
Publisher: James Currey
Publication Date: 2023-05-16
Language: English
Print Length: 512 pages
ISBN-10: 1847013406
ISBN-13: 9781847013408
Book Description
WINNER of the 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
Focuses on a much discussed and controversial aspect of conservation: the commodification of nature. Can the successful marketization of what is generally perceived as wilderness help to provide for biodiversity conservation, economic development and social emancipation?
At a time of profound anxiety about the impact of human activity on nature and the catastrophic effects of climate change, the "sixth mass extinction", invasive species and rapidly expanding zoonotic diseases, this volume engages with the practices, discourses, and materialities surrounding the commodification of "the wild". Focusing on the relationship between commodification and wilderness, the contributors pay particular attention to commodification's newer iterations in which human management plays a significant role, such as wildlife-park tourism, trophy-hunting, and trade in herbal medicines, perfumes and luxury exotic food items.
Dominant neoliberal approaches have aimed to address global environmental challenges through the commodification and marketization of nature: by valorizing nature, they claim, biodiversity can be safeguarded and "wild" landscapes protected. This, it is thought, will not only open up a new frontier of sustainable, non-exploitative, participatory capitalist expansion, but invigorate rural livelihoods, reduce poverty, and add important assets to otherwise vulnerable rural economies. This important book challenges this future trajectory. Investigating a broad range of cases across southern and eastern Africa, from the illegal sandalwood trade to legal trade in devil's claw and honeybush, to trophy-hunting and wilderness safaris, the contributors reveal the pitfalls and challenges of commodification, what this means for the continent and beyond.
OPEN ACCESS: This title is freely available in digital format under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND
About the Author
Alfons Mosimane, a geographer, is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Namibia. For the past 20 years Dr Mosimane has researched institutional development and governance systems in community based natural resources management (CBNRM) in Namibia.
Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Namibia. She is the author of Securing Land Rights: Communal Land Reform in Namibia (2020).
Selma Lendelvo is a Senior Researcher and Director of Grants Management and Resources Mobilisation at the University of Namibia. Her research focuses on environmental management and sustainable natural resources management.
LÉA LACAN is a postdoctoral researcher in environmental anthropology at the University of Cologne, Germany and a member of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC). She currently works on the 'Rewilding the Anthropocene' project in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area in Southern/Central Africa.
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