Panel 145: Disciplining Nature. Continuity and Change in Land and Environment Conservation Policies in sub-Saharan Africa (Mario Zamponi)
Panel Organiser: Mario Zamponi
Both colonial and post colonial developmental state in sub-Saharan Africa considered land and environment in relation to the fulfilment of “development”. Since the ’80s new ideas about natural resources were developed. The panel aims at discussing ideas and practices through which the state intervened on rural societies and environment.
Accepted Abstracts
Dilemmas in mediating Political interests and public
choices: The Institutional Maze in the Management of Environmental Crime in
Kenya
Hunting for wildlife and modernity in a new conservation era. A socio-anthropological analysis of the Burkinabe pisteurs in the periphery of park W.
A Continuing
Story of Exclusion: People-Based Conservation in South Africa.
Changing discourses on protection of biodiversity with special focus on Southern Africa.
- A process analysis on the international debate and institutionalization related to protection of biodiversity in Southern Africa using Zimbabwe as case
