Imposing wilderness : struggles over livelihood and nature preservation in Africa /

"Arusha National Park in northern Tanzania, known for its scenic beauty, embodies in microcosm all the political-ecological dilemmas facing protected areas throughout Africa: it is, in part, a battle ground. The roots of the ongoing struggle between the park on Mount Meru and the neighboring Me...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neumann, Roderick P., 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998
Berkeley : c1998
Series:California studies in critical human geography ; 4
California studies in critical human geography ; 4
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Landscapes of nature, terrains of resistance
  • Political and moral economy on Mount Meru
  • Conservation versus custom : state seizure of natural resource control
  • Protecting the fauna of the empire : the evolution of national parks in Tanzania
  • Patterns of predation at Arusha National Park
  • Village moral economy and the new colonialism