Bollig / Mosimane / Nghitevelekwa | Conservation, Markets & the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa | Buch | 978-1-84701-340-8 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 512 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Future Rural Africa

Bollig / Mosimane / Nghitevelekwa

Conservation, Markets & the Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa

Commodifying the 'Wild'
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-84701-340-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Commodifying the 'Wild'

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 512 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Future Rural Africa

ISBN: 978-1-84701-340-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

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.

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Bollig, Michael
Mosimane, Alfons Wabahe
Nghitevelekwa, Romie Vonkie
Lendelvo, Selma Mekondjo

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PART 1: INTRODUCTION
1. 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
2.Fetishizing the 'Wild': Conservation, commodities and capitalism
Clemens Greiner and Michael Bollig

3. Value Chains and Global Production Networks: Conceptual considerations and economic development in the 'Wild'
Javier Revilla-Diez, Carolin Hulke, and Linus Kalvelage

4. Benefit Sharing and Biodiversity Commodification: A failed approach for social justice, equity and conservation?
Rachel Wynberg
5. 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
6. 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
7. Marginalisation and exclusion in honeybush commercialisation in South Africa

Sthembile Ndwandwe
8. From Forest to National Resource: Forest conservation and state power in Baringo, Kenya
Léa Lacan

9. Commodifying East Africa's Sandalwood: Organised crime and community participation in transnational smuggling of endangered species
Eric Mutisya Kioko and Michael Mugo Kinyanjui
10. The Gum Arabic Business: Modernization of production in north-eastern Nigeria
Hauke-Peter Vehrs and Ibrahim Maina Wazirii

PART 4: COMMODIFYING WILDLIFE
11. Producing Elephant Commodities for 'Conservation Hunting' in Namibian Communal-area Conservancies

Lee Hewitson and Sian Sullivan
12. Human-wildlife Interaction, Rural Conflict and Wildlife Conservation
Ezequiel Fabiano, Selma Lendelvo, Alfons Mosimane, and Selma Kosmas
13.Hunting for Development: Global production networks and the commodification of wildlife in Namibia
Linus Kalvelage

PART 5: COMMODIFICATION AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS
14. Women in Rural Northern Namibia and the Commodification of Indigenous Natural Products
Romie Nghitevelekwa, Selma Lendelvo, and Martin Shapi
15. Conservation, Traditional Authorities, and the Commodification of the 'Wild': a Namibian perspective

Alfons Mosimane, Kenneth Matengu, and Michael Bollig
16. Commodification of Wildlife Resources in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
Joseph E. Mbaiwa
17. Justice Dilemmas in Conservation Conflicts in Uganda
Lioba Lenhart

PART 6: CONCLUSIONS
18. Conclusions: Commodifying the 'Wild' - Where do we go from here?
Michael Bollig, Linus Kalvelage, Léa Lacan, Selma Lendelvo, Alfons Mosimane, and Romie Nghitevelekwa

Lendelvo, Selma Mekondjo
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.

Mosimane, Alfons Wabahe
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.

Dittmann, Johannes
Johannes Dittmann is a PhD Candidate at the University of Bonn (Department of Geography) and associated member of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC-TRR 228) "Future Rural Africa" - Future-Making and Socio-Ecological Transformation.His research focuses on social-ecological transformations in context of large-scale conservation and agricultural schemes in Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia.

Lavelle, Jessica-Jane
Jessica-Jane Lavelle is a researcher with the National Research Foundation Bio-economy Research Chair at the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on social dimensions of the bio-economy.

Fabiano, Chimbioputo Ezequiel
Ezequiel Fabiano is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Namibia where his key interests lies on ecosystem dynamics. He is a co-author of Cheetahs: Biology and Conservation; Conservation from Genes to Landscapes (with Sutherland, C., Fuller, A., Boast, L., 2018).

Nghitevelekwa, Romie Vonkie
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).

Bollig, Michael
MICHAEL BOLLIG is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne.

Ndwandwe, Sthembile
Sthembile Ndwandwe is a Doctoral candidate at the University of Cape Town. Her research is currently associated with the Bio-economy Research Chair unit at the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, the unit responds to environmental and social implications of pursuing the economic opportunities associated with biodiversity, biological products, and biological processes and innovations such as modern biotechnology.

Hewitson, Lee John
Lee Hewitson is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Dundee. His research interests include the political ecology of (neoliberal) nature conservation and natural resource governance approaches, particularly in Africa. He has written popular publications on issues including trophy hunting and the commodification of indigenous natural products in Namibia.

Vehrs, Hauke-Peter
HAUKE-PETER VEHRS is a Post-doctoral researcher in the project 'Future Rural Africa: Future-Making and Social Ecological Transformation' at the University of Cologne.

Shapi, Martin Kasanaga
Martin Shapi is a Senior Researcher in the Social Sciences Division (SSD) of the Multidisciplinary Research Center (MRC) at the University of Namibia (UNAM). He has been extensively involved in Research with UNAM since 2002 primarily focusing on conservation of Natural Resources (NRs).

Nghitevelekwa, Romie Vonkie
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).

Kinyanjui, Michael Mugo
Michael M. Kinyanjui is an Administrator with the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, engaged in policy development. He is the Author of Factors Influencing Urban Agriculture Performance in Mathare sub-county, Nairobi City County, Kenya (2018).

Bollig, Michael
MICHAEL BOLLIG is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne.

Mbaiwa, Joseph E.
Joseph Mbaiwa is the Director of the Okavango Research Institute (ORI), University of Botswana and Professor of Tourism Studies. He is on the editorial board of the South African Geographical Journal, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, and Journal of Ecotourism.

Kalvelage, Linus
Linus Kalvelage is a research associate at the Institute of Geography, University of Cologne. A member of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 228) 'Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation', his research interests include tourism GPNs, nature conservation and regional development in Southern Africa.

Kioko, Eric Mutisya
Eric M. Kioko is a lecturer at Kenyatta University in the Department of Environmental Studies and Community Development where his research and teaching focuses on the dynamics of human-environment relations. His publications include Cooperation in the midst of conflict (with M. Gravesen, 2019) and Appeasing the land (with W. Okumu, 2018).

Waziri, Ibrahim Maina
Ibrahim Maina Waziri is Professor of social and economic history at the University of Maiduguri. He is also involved with the Consortium of Research Centres for Northern States of Nigeria (CRCNN) Mambayya House, Bayero University Kano, Nigeria, the Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, Germany and is the Director of the Manuscript Conservation Laboratory of the Centre for Trans Saharan Studies, University of Maiduguri.

Mosimane, Alfons Wabahe
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.

Hulke, Carolin
Carolin Hulke is a research associate at the University of Cologne, Institute of Geography and associate to the multi-disciplinary research project "Future Rural Africa" (CRC-TRR228/1). She is conducting her PhD research on southern African agricultural regional value chains, livelihood strategies and rural development.

Müller-Mahn, Detlef
DETLEF MÜLLER-MAHN is Professor of Development Geography, University of Bonn. He served as the spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC-TRR 228) "Future Rural Africa" 2018-2021. His research focuses on the political ecology of land use change and rural development in East Africa and the Middle East. Eric Kioko).

Greiner, Clemens
Clemens Greiner is the academic coordinator of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC). His current research focuses on rural change, political ecology, translocality, and (energy) infrastructures in Kenya. His regional specialization is on Eastern and Southern Africa.

Kosmas, Selma Sussana Ndeenda
Selma Kosmas is a lecturer at the University of Namibia's department for Wildlife Management and Tourism Studies. She is currently doing her PhD; with her research focused on using non-invasive DNA for ecological inferences particularly of large carnivores, using Angola as the study area.

Lendelvo, Selma Mekondjo
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.

Lenhart, Liobia
Lioba Lenhart is Associate Professor at the Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies (IPSS), Gulu University, Uganda. Her current research interests are conflicts over land and natural resources with a focus on conservation conflicts, environmental justice, migration and forced displacement, transitional justice and mental health in post-conflict situations.

Wynberg, Rachel
Rachel Wynberg is a Professor in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, where she holds a national Research Chair focused on Environmental and Social Dimensions of the Bio-economy. She has been involved in research and policy-making since the inception of the Convention on Biological Diversity in 1992, advising governments, civil society organisations and international agencies. Her publications include five co-edited books and monographs.

Matengu, Kenneth Kamwi
Kenneth Matengu is the Vice Chancellor of the University of Namibia and Research Professor at the Multidisciplinary Research Centre, Social Sciences Division at the University. He serves as a Commissioner on the International Geographical Union, and as an Executive to the IGU Commission on African Studies and The International AIDS Society. He was recently appointed by the President of the Republic of Namibia as a Member of the High Level Panel on the Namibian Economy.

Lacan, Léa
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.

Sullivan, Sian
Sian Sullivan is Professor of Environment and Culture at Bath Spa University. She has co-edited Political Ecology: Science, Myth and Power (2000), Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-embodiments (2016), Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation: Creating Values that Matter (2018), and Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis (2021).

Revilla-Diez, Javier
Javier Revilla Diez holds a Chair in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and is associated to the Global South Study Center at the University of Cologne. He participates in the collaborative research center 'Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation'.

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