Transforming the Frontier

Transforming the Frontier

Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa

  • Auteur: Büscher, Bram
  • Éditeur: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822354048
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822399087
  • Lieu de publication:  Durham , United States
  • Année de publication électronique: 2013
  • Mois : Avril
  • Pages: 312
  • DDC: 333.720968
  • Langue: Anglais
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.

  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Frontiers of Conservation
  • Chapter One: Forging (Trans)frontier Spaces
  • Chapter Two: Neoliberal Amplifications
  • Chapter Three: Compressing Reality
  • Chapter Four: Divergent Interpretations
  • Chapter Five: Processing Politics
  • Chapter Six: Images of an Intervention
  • Chapter Seven: Neoliberal Alignments
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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