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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: land rights, biodiversity conservation and justice—rethinking parks and people
Political ecology of biodiversity conservation
For clarity
Justice
History
Race and the politics of difference
Land rights
The book
Justice
Violence
Indigenous territorial struggles
References
PART I Justice
2 Meanings, alliances and the state in tensions over land rights and conservation in South Africa
Introduction
Land and justice in biodiversity conservation
Alliances and advocacy in conservation and land rights
Conservation alliances
Land rights alliances
Conservation and land rights: a clash of values?
Ambiguous role of the state
Discussion and conclusion
References
3 The promise and limit of environmental justice through land restitution in protected areas in South Africa
Introduction
Environmental justice recontextualized
The tension between land restitution and biodiversity conservation
Makahane–Maritenga land claim
Dispossession: a brief history of injustice
Restitution for justice for Makahane–Maritenga
Cabinet decision: environmental justice redefined?
Conclusion
Notes
References
PART II Militarization, violence, and exclusion
4 Deploying difference: security threat narratives and state displacement from protected areas
Introduction
Where conservation meets displacement, security, and difference
Conservation security–provoked displacement from Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park
Deploying understandings of difference, organizing evictions from the LNP
Guatemala: security-induced displacement in borderlands, protected areas, and the “drug war”
The Maya Biosphere Reserve: where the security state makes difference dangerous
Deploying understandings of difference, provoking displacement in the LNP and MBR
Conclusion: implications for biodiversity and land justice agendas
Notes
References
5 Green violence: market-driven conservation and the reforeignization of space in Laikipia, Kenya
Introduction
Green violence: the violent nature of conservation
Making wildlife pay: the greening of white ranches in Laikipia
Exclusive nature: the contemporary landscape of market-driven conservation
Racialized dispossession and the origins of market-driven conservation
Market-driven conservation and the militarization of private conservancies
Market-driven conservation via education: “changing a community’s mindset”
Green violence and the reforeignization of space
Concluding discussion
References
6 Elusive space: peasants and resource politics in the Colombian Caribbean
1 Introduction
2 Placing peasants within national configurations of difference and citizenship
3 Development, conservation and dispossession
3.1 Alianzas productivas
3.2 Familias Guardabosques
4 Peasant space
5 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
7 “When land becomes gold”: changing political ecology of the commons in a rural–urban frontier
Introduction
Situating Gurgaon
The urban land question
The contested commons
Unintended consequences: ambient exclusions
Engaging contradictions: limits and possibilities
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
PART III Indigenous territorial struggles
8 Indigeneity, alternative development and conservation: political ecology of forest and land control in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
Introduction
The context: cultural geography of CHT
The origins of VCFs: Indigenous invention vs. state regulation
VCF projects: a new discourse of political forests and land control
Implications
Conclusion
Acknowledgment
Notes
References
9 Wapichan Wiizi: conservation politics in the Rupununi (Guyana)
Methods
Territories, territoriaizations, territorialities
Territories of environmentalism
From land to territory
Notes
References
10 Science as friend and foe: the “technologies of humility” in the changing relationship to science in community forest debates in Thailand
Introduction
Humility and solidarity: concepts for science?
Methods
State science/local knowledge: the origins of a science-based state
Community forests and local knowledge: science and scientific management as foe?
Making the people–park boundary: uneven engagements with mapping and science
Villager research and engagements with “citizen science”
Technologies of humility and the state
Discussion: still rethinking parks and people?
Conclusion
References
11 The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve: a postcolonial feminist political ecological reading of violence and territorial struggles in Honduras
Protected areas as “sacrifice zones”
Colonial continuities and Miskito territorial insecurities in the Mosquitia
Silent incursions inside the Reserve
Embodied violence: land and human rights defenders in Latin America
Coloniality of gender power and feminicide in Honduras
Back at the Reserve: menacing continuities
Final thoughts
References
Index
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