Nature conservation in Southern Africa / Harry Wels.

• Author: Wels, Harry.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: African Dynamics 16.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 pages) :; illustrations

Nature conservation in southern Africa has always been characterised by an interplay between Capital, specific understandings of Morality, and forms of Militarism, that are all dependent upon the shared subservience and marginalization of animals and certain groups of people in society. Although the subjectivity of people has been rendered visible in earlier publications on histories of conservation in southern Africa, the subjectivity of animals is hardly ever seriously considered or explicitly dealt with. In this edited volume the subjectivity and sentience of animals is explicitly included. The contributors argue that the shared human and animal marginalisation and agency in nature conservation in southern Africa (and beyond) could and should be further explored under the label of ‘sentient conservation’. Contributors are Malcolm Draper, Vupenyu Dzingirai, Jan-Bart Gewald, Michael Glover, Paul Hebinck, Tariro Kamuti, Lindiwe Mangwanya, Albert Manhamo, Dhoya Snijders, Marja Spierenburg, Sandra Swart, Harry Wels.

Table of Contents

Introduction: People, Animals, Morality, and Marginality: Reconfiguring Wildlife Conservation in Southern Africa / Jan-Bart Gewald , Marja Spierenburg and Harry Wels -- Animals in Wildlife Conservation -- A Cattle-Centred History of Southern Africa? / Michael Glover -- Brothers in Arms: Baboon-Human Interactions, a Southern African Perspective / Jan-Bart Gewald -- Rewilding White Lions: Conservation through the Eyes of Carnivores? / Harry Wels -- Histories in Wildlife Conservation -- National Parks, Eco-Frontiers, and Transfrontiersmanship in Southern African Conservation / Malcolm Draper -- Resurrection Conservation: The Return of the Extinct? / Sandra Swart -- Politics of Wildlife Conservation -- The Emergence and Socio-Economic Impacts of Wildlife Ranching in South Africa / Marja Spierenburg -- ‘If It Pays, It Stays’: The Lobby for Private Wildlife Ranching in South Africa / Tariro Kamuti -- Controlling Sex and Death: On the Wildlife Trophy Industry in South Africa / Dhoya Snijders -- Critical Voices in Wildlife Conservation -- Continued State Monopoly and Control of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in ZimbabweThe Case of Hurungwe’s Campfire Programme / Vupenyu Dzingirai , Albert Manhamo and Lindiwe Mangwanya -- Poaching: Between Conservation from Below, Livelihoods and Resistance / Paul Hebinck.