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

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 AfricaCentrist democratic ideologies and movementsLiberalism & centre democratic ideologiesConservation of wildlife & habitatsConservation 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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