Wilderness or Home?: Conflicts, Competing Perspectives and Claims of Entitlement Over Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia
Asebe Regassa Debelo
Jan 2016 · Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung Book 66 · LIT Verlag Münster
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This book critically probes into the politics of nature conservation and commodification. Building on political ecology, the book argues that conservation is used by state and non-state actors as an instrument of controlling multidimensional spaces of indigenous communities. The study creates a nexus between the hegemonic discourse of wilderness conservation in colonial Africa and Ethiopia's appropriation of this narrative and how it internally exported it to its peripheries. It found out that the successive Ethiopian regimes (the imperial, military and developmental state) share commonalities in using nature conservation both for political control of societies and their territories, and as a means of economic extraction through commodification. Asebe Regassa Debelo is a graduate of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS). (Series: Contributions to African Research / Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 66) [Subject: Sociology, ?African Studies
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Asebe Regassa Debelo is a graduate of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS).
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