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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

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (513 pages)

Collana

Future Rural Africa

Altri autori (Persone)

MosimaneAlfons Wabahe

NghitevelekwaRomie Vonkie

LendelvoSelma Mekondjo

LacanLéa

KalvelageLinus

GreinerClemens

Revilla-DiezJavier

HulkeCarolin

NdwandweSthembile

Disciplina

333.72

Soggetti

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development

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?.