1st Edition

Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice Rethinking Parks and People

Edited By Sharlene Mollett, Thembela Kepe Copyright 2018
220 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In the context of sustainable development, recent land debates tend to construct two porous camps. On the one side, norms of land justice and their advocates dictate that people’s rights to tenure security are tantamount and even sometimes key to successful conservation practice. On the other hand, biodiversity protection and conservation advocates, supported by global environmental organizations... Read more

1. Introduction: Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice: Rethinking Parks and People Sharlene Mollett and Thembela Kepe  Part 1: Justice  2. Meanings, Alliances and the State in Tensions over Land Rights and Conservation in South Africa Thembela Kepe  3. The promise and limit of environmental justice through land restitution in protected areas in South Africa Maano Ramutsindela and Medupi Shabangu  Part 2: Militarization, Violence and Exclusion  4. Deploying Difference: Security threat narratives and state displacement from protected areas Elizabeth Lunstrum and Megan Ybarra  5. Green Violence: Market-Driven Conservation and the Re-Foreignization of Space in Laikipia, Kenya Brock Bersaglio  6. Elusive Space: Peasants and resource politics in the Colombian Caribbean Diana Ojeda and María Camila González  7. "When Land Becomes Gold": Changing Political Ecology of the Commons in a Rural-Urban frontier Shubhra Gururani  Part 3: Indigenous Territorial Struggles  8. Indigeneity, alternative development and conservation: political ecology of forest and land control in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh Khairul Chowdhury  9. Wapichan Wiizi: Conservation Politics in the Rupununi (Guyana) Katherine MacDonald  10. Science as friend and foe: the ‘technologies of humility’ in the changing relationship to science in community forest debates in Thailand Vanessa Lamb and Robin Roth  11. The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve: A postcolonial feminist reading of violence and Miskito territorial struggles in Honduras Sharlene Mollett

Biography

Sharlene Mollett is an assistant professor in the Centre for Critical Development Studies and the Department of Human Geography Department at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Thembela Kepe is a professor in the Department of Geography, and the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.

"The subtitle of Sharlene Mollett and Thembela Kepe’s admirably, coherent and tightly argued new volume, Land Rights, Biodiversity Conservation and Justice is ‘Rethinking Parks and People’. The contributors’ multidisciplinary approach, broadly oriented within political ecology, places environmentalist justifications for forced removals and the extrajudicial killings of ‘poachers’ in stark relief."

- Scott Burnett, South African Journal of International Affairs