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Record Nr.

UNINA9911034870803321

Autore

Enns Charis

Titolo

Settler Ecologies : The Enduring Nature of Settler Colonialism in Kenya

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9781487557409

148755740X

9781487555528

1487555520

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 pages)

Classificazione

cci1icc

Altri autori (Persone)

BersaglioBrock

Disciplina

304.2096762/753

Soggetti

Human ecology - Kenya - Laikipia County

Settler colonialism - Environmental aspects - Kenya - Laikipia County

Wildlife conservation - Kenya - Laikipia County

NATURE / Ecology

Colonization

Ecology

Human ecology

Wildlife conservation

Electronic books.

Laikipia County (Kenya) Environmental conditions

Kenya Colonization

Kenya

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Settler Ecologies tells the story of how settler colonialism becomes memorialized and lives on through ecological relations. Drawing on eight years of research in Laikipia, Kenya, Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio use immersive methods to reveal how animals and plants can be enrolled in the reproduction of settler colonialism. The book details how ecological relations have been unmade and remade to enable



settler colonialism to endure as a structure in this part of Kenya. It describes five modes of violent ecological transformation used to prolong structures of settler colonialism: eliminating undesired species; rewilding landscapes with species desirable to settler ecologists; repeopling nature to create seemingly more inclusive ecologies and capitalize on biocultural diversity; rescuing injured animals and endangered species to shore up support for settler ecologies; and extending settler ecologies through landscape approaches to conservation that scale wild spaces. Settler Ecologies serves as a cautionary tale for future conservation agendas in all settler colonies. While urgent action is needed to halt global biodiversity loss, this book underscores the need to continually question whether the types of nature being preserved advance settler colonial structures or create conditions in which ecologies can otherwise be (re)made and flourish."--