Event
Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, Basel
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ZASB/BAB
Book Launch: Ruling Nature, Controlling People. Nature Conservation, Development and War in North-Eastern Namibia since the 1920s
- Welcome by Petra Kerckhoff
- Contributions by historian Goodman Gwasira (University of Namibia) and the author, Luregn Lenggenhager (University of Basel)
Drinks and snacks will be served and the book will be on sale (review copies available).
Luregn Lenggenhager, Ruling Nature, Controlling People. Nature Conservation, Development and War in North-Eastern Namibia since the 1920s. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2018.
Recent nature conservation initiatives in Southern Africa such as communal conservancies and peace parks are often embedded in narratives of economic development and ecological research. They are also increasingly marked by militarisation and violence. In Ruling Nature, Controlling People, Luregn Lenggenhager shows that these features were also characteristic of South African rule over the Caprivi Strip region in North-Eastern Namibia, especially in the fields of forestry, fisheries and, ultimately, wildlife conservation. In the process, the increasingly internationalised war in the region from the late 1960s until Namibia’s independence in 1990 became intricately interlinked with contemporary nature conservation, ecology and economic development projects.
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