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Record Nr.

UNINA9910723699603321

Autore

Bollig Michael

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Woodbridge : , : Boydell & Brewer, Limited, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

1-80010-664-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (513 pages)

Collana

Future Rural Africa

Altri autori (Persone)

MosimaneAlphons Wabahe

NghitevelekwaRomie Vonkie

LendelvoSelma Mekondjo

LacanLéa

KalvelageLinus

GreinerClemens

Revilla DiezJavier

HulkeCarolin

NdwandweSthembile

Disciplina

333.72

Soggetti

Business

Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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?.