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A carregar... Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africapor Roderick P. Neumann
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Arusha National Park in northern Tanzania, known for its scenic beauty, is also a battleground. Roderick Neumann's illuminating analysis shows how this park embodies all the political-ecological dilemmas facing protected areas throughout Africa. The roots of the ongoing struggle between the park on Mount Meru and the neighboring Meru peasant communities go much deeper, in Neumann's view, than the issues of poverty, population growth, and ignorance usually cited. These conflicts reflect differences that go back to the beginning of colonial rule. By imposing a European ideal of pristine wilderness, Neumann says, the establishment of national parks and protected areas displaced African meanings as well as material access to the land. He focuses on the symbolic importance of natural landscapes among various social groups in this setting and how it relates to conflicts between peasant communities and the state. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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What I also liked about the book is its eclecticism. I've never been a particularly big fan of mono-causal theorizing. I've always thought of the world and especially the political world as big, messy, and complex. This book does what political ecology does at its best, it acknowledges the complexity of the world while still managing to create a coherent picture of it. Wilderness is indeed imposed through public parks, but never in a way that is absolute or indisputable. Because I was reading the book for pleasure, perhaps what I liked best were the reflections of the author's personal conversations with the people of Meru during his field research.
Though thoroughly academic (with all the caveats that implies) the book is also one with a very human (and humanist) face to it. ( )