کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
10500754 944330 2005 19 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Chiefs, hunters and adventurers: the foundation of the Okavango/Moremi National Park, Botswana
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر تاریخ
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Chiefs, hunters and adventurers: the foundation of the Okavango/Moremi National Park, Botswana
چکیده انگلیسی
This article is about the politics of wildlife management in Botswana. The existing literature on the origins of wildlife conservation in Africa has portrayed the formation of protected areas as an imposition of colonial state authorities. Preservationist policies are usually cast as the product of European conservationist ideas, and related notions of the 'wilderness' value of African landscapes. Many recent studies have emphasized the negative effects of such ideas and policies in a colonial context: they have drawn attention to the way in which they devalued local African ideas, undermined local management strategies, and criminalized access to important economic and cultural resources. The case discussed here, however, suggests that this interpretation needs closer scrutiny: the meaning and impact of global ideas and policies of wildlife conservation depends on how they are localized in particular places. The key actors in the foundation of Botswana's Okavango/Moremi National Park in the 1960s were not state officials but local BaTawana chiefs and a network of hunters and adventurers turned conservationists. The initiative was conceived as a means of protecting wildlife from the depredations of illegal South African hunting parties and ensuring future local use, and was initially opposed by the colonial state. The article discusses why Okavango/Moremi was an exception, and why the initial coalition of African and local settler interests came to see preservationist policies as being in their interest.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Historical Geography - Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 241-259
نویسندگان
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