Transforming the Frontier : Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa

Name: Transforming the Frontier
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822354208
Price: 4850 KES
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ISBN: 9780822354208

by Bram Büscher

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0822354209

ISBN-13 9780822354208

Publisher Duke University Press

Imprint Duke University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 29th, 2013

Print length 312 Pages

Weight 460 grams

Dimensions 23.30 x 15.80 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Southern Africa Centrist democratic ideologies and movements Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies Conservation of wildlife & habitats Conservation of wildlife and habitats

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An argument that "peace parks," transnational conservation areas established and managed by two or more countries, are driven by neoliberal approaches to conservation that are often deleterious to local inhabitants and the surrounding environment.

International peace parks-transnational conservation areas established and managed by two or more countries-have become a popular way of protecting biodiversity while promoting international cooperation and regional development. In Transforming the Frontier, Bram BÜscher shows how cross-border conservation neatly reflects the neoliberal political economy in which it developed.

Based on extensive research in southern Africa with the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation and Development Project, BÜscher explains how the successful promotion of transfrontier conservation as a "win-win" solution happens not only in spite of troubling contradictions and problems, but indeed because of them. This is what he refers to as the "politics of neoliberal conservation," which receives its strength from effectively combining strategies of consensus, antipolitics, and marketing. Drawing on long-term, multilevel ethnographic research, BÜscher argues that transfrontier conservation projects are not as concerned with on-the-ground development as they are purported to be. Instead, they are reframing environmental protection and sustainable development to fit an increasingly contradictory world order.

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