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 Leiden University catalogue |
| Title: | Greening the Great Red Island: Madagascar in nature and culture |
| Editor: | Kaufmann, Jeffrey Charles |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Pages: | 335 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Pretoria |
| Publisher: | Africa Institute of South Africa |
| ISBN: | 0798301813; 9780798301817 |
| Geographic term: | Madagascar |
| Subjects: | nature conservation ecology national parks and reserves |
| Abstract: | The dominant trend in environmental studies has assumed that people ruin the natural environment. The contributors to this collective volume challenge this assumption for its oversimplification. They show how nature and cultures intersect in Madagascar, and how the politics of nature affects Malagasy agency and the poor success of conservation efforts. The first four chapters look at the question of how the conservation sector got so powerful in Madagascar, as opposed to the weak nation-State, from several points of view: recent conservation history, conservation-biased acculturation, the elitist beneficiaries of conservation and the making of low-wage conservation dependencies. The underlying theme is the way conservation parks and policy attempt to save Madagascar's natural heritage by changing Malagasy cultures. The next six chapters examine how muddled notions of agency contribute to disparate understandings of forests, and attempt to provide some clarity as to who is responsible. The focus is on deforestation in Madagascar's central highlands, landscape change, the erosion of biodiversity, and pastoralist deforestation. The final four chapters deal with the question of how the conservation sector acts with its power, especially in people-park relations. This question is considered through ethnographies of several conservation parks. Contributors: Joanna Durbin, Mary Edwards, Daniel W. Gade, Janice Harper, Alison Jolly, Jeffrey C. Kaufmann, Jørgen Klein, Kaisa Korhonen, Christian A. Kull, Sophie Moreau, Alison Ormsby, Lala Jean Rakotoniaina, Jonah Ratsimbazafy, Bertrand Réau, Michael J. Simsik, Genese Sodikoff, and Sylvestre Tsirahamba. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
