Conservation, Markets and the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa : : Commodifying The 'Wild'.

• Superior document: Future Rural Africa
• Author: Bollig, Michael.
• TeilnehmendeR: Mosimane, Alfons Wabahe.; Nghitevelekwa, Romie Vonkie.; Lendelvo, Selma Mekondjo.; Lacan, Léa.; Kalvelage, Linus.; Greiner, Clemens.; Revilla-Diez, Javier.; Hulke, Carolin.; Ndwandwe, Sthembile.
• Place / Publishing House: Woodbridge : : Boydell & Brewer, Limited,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Future Rural Africa.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (513 pages)

Focuses on a key issue of conservation: the commodification of nature. Can the successful marketization of wilderness help to provide for biodiversity conservation, economic development and social emancipation?.

Table of Contents

PART 1: INTRODUCTION -- Introduction: Practices, Discourses, and Materialities surrounding the Commodification of the ‘Wild’ / Michael Bollig, Linus Kalvelage, Léa Lacan, Selma Lendelvo, Alfons Mosimane, and Romie Nghitevelekwa -- PART 2: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES-- Fetishising the ‘Wild’: Conservation, commodities, and capitalism / Clemens Greiner and Michael Bollig -- Value Chains and Global Production Networks: Conceptual considerations and economic development in the ‘wild’ / Javier Revilla Diez, Carolin Hulke, and Linus Kalvelage -- Benefit Sharing and Biodiversity Commodification in Southern Africa: A failed approach for social justice, equity, and conservation? / Rachel Wynberg -- Transfrontier Conservation Governance, Commodification of Nature, and the New Dynamics of Sovereignty in Namibia / Johannes Dittmann and Detlef Müller-Mahn -- PART 3: PLANTS FROM THE WILDERNESS FOR A GLOBAL MARKET: THE COMMODIFICATION OF NON-DOMESTICATED (WILD) PLANTS -- Towards Pro-poor or Pro-profit? The governance framework for harvesting and trade of devil’s claw (Harpagophytum spp.) in the Zambezi Region, Namibia / Jessica-Jane Lavelle -- Marginalisation and Exclusion in Honeybush Commercialisation in South Africa / Sthembile Ndwandwe -- From Forest to National Resource: Forest conservation and state power in Baringo, Kenya / Léa Lacan -- Commodifying East Africa’s Sandalwood: Organised crime and community participation in transnational smuggling of endangered species / Eric Mutisya Kioko and Michael Mugo Kinyanjui -- The Gum Arabic Business: Modernisation of production in northeastern Nigeria / Hauke-Peter Vehrs and Ibrahim Maina Waziri -- PART 4: COMMODIFYING WILDLIFE -- Producing Elephant Commodities for ‘Conservation Hunting’ in Namibian Communal-area Conservancies / Lee Hewitson and Sian Sullivan -- Human–Wildlife Interaction, Rural Conflict, and Wildlife Conservation / Ezequiel Fabiano, Selma Lendelvo, Alfons Mosimane, and Selma Kosmas -- Hunting for Development: Global production networks and the commodification of wildlife in Namibia / Linus Kalvelage -- PART 5: COMMODIFICATION AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS -- Women in Rural Northern Namibia and the Commodification of Indigenous Natural Products / Romie Nghitevelekwa, Selma Lendelvo, and Martin Shapi -- Conservation, Traditional Authorities, and the Commodification of the ‘Wild’: A Namibian perspective / Alfons Mosimane, Kenneth Matengu, and Michael Bollig -- Commodification of Wildlife Resources in the Okavango Delta, Botswana / Joseph E. Mbaiwa -- Justice Dilemmas in Conservation Conflicts in Uganda / Lioba Lenhart -- PART 6: CONCLUSIONS -- Conclusions: Commodifying the ‘Wild’ – Where do we go from here? / Léa Lacan, Linus Kalvelage, Selma Lendelvo, Alfons Mosimane, Romie Nghitevelekwa, and Michael Bollig – Index.