Chapter 1: Storytelling, Ideology, and Science in ‘African’ Peace Parks
Chapter 2: Peace Parks: A Setting for Political Ecological Inquiry
Chapter 3: The Colonial Foundation of Peace Parks
Chapter 4: The Uneven Geography of Peace Parks in Africa
Chapter 5: The Institutionalisation of Peace Parks in Southern Africa
Chapter 6: Toponymy and the Politics of Land in TFCA Spaces
Chapter 7: The Elusive Peace: Inter-State Tensions in Peace Parks Spaces
Biography
Maano Ramutsindela is Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town and Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria. He is the University of Pretoria-University of Cape Town Future Africa Research Chair in Sustainability Transformations. He has researched peace parks in Africa for more than two decades.
"The Political Ecology of African Peace Parks is pioneering, theoretically sophisticated, and substantively rich. It meticulously challenges the dominant (neo) colonial conservation agenda and offers an alternative schema. This precious gift from Africa’s leading political ecologist should be a standard textbook in African universities."
Abdi Samatar, Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota and member of Pan African Parliament.
William Moseley, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, Macalester College, author of Decolonizing African Agriculture.
"This book provides a comprehensive, in-depth analysis of the history, socio-political context, and on-the-ground impacts of peace parks in Africa; a must-read for conservation scholars and practitioners alike. It provides a well-substantiated and much-needed counterargument to the ideology avidly promoted by its privileged supporters and beneficiaries."
Marja Spierenburg, Leiden University.
