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Publication: " Space is the Ultimate Luxury Capitalists, Conservationists, and Ancestral Land in Namibia"
This book co-authored by Luregn Lenggenhager provides a historical and contemporary narrative of African farmers in the South of Namibia and their struggle for access to their ancestral land.
Abstract
This book explores the history, ecology, and society of a seemingly inhospitable stretch of land along the Orange River in southern Namibia. Here, a group of African farmers have succeeded against all odds to stay on their ancestral homeland through decades of colonialism and apartheid. The twenty-first century, however, has brought different people looking to evict them: nature conservationists. These farmers face off against billionaire gemstone mine owners, rhinoceros veterinarians and carbon finance executives, seeking to prove their legal and moral claims to their ancestral lands. This book reveals how we got here and what is at stake if they fail.