Tropical Nature: Colonial and Post-Colonial Conservation in Africa and Asia (1) (Environment in History: International Perspectives)

By: Guillaume Blanc, Mathieu Guérin and Grégory Quenet

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Synopsis: Across Africa and South-East Asia, the impulse to protect nature often dovetails with the domination of local people. From mass displacement to severe restrictions on land use and daily acts of violence, conservation work risks reproducing Eurocentric modes of colonialism and worsening the effects of the climate crisis. In this insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of conservation, Tropical Nature seeks to provide a much-needed history of the Global South from its own perspective. Comparing case studies ranging from Ali Bongo’s Gabon, to the postcolonial African itinerary of the agronomist Arthur Bunting, this volume advances a “small-scale global history” that deciphers the relations binding human societies to the non-human world.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 328 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781805398929
Related ISBNs:: 9781805398912
Publisher:: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Date of Addition:: 03/01/25
Copyrighted By:: Guillaume Blanc, Mathieu Guérin and Grégory Quenet
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Guillaume Blanc
Edited by:: Mathieu Guérin
Edited by:: Grégory Quenet

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