Conservation and Globalization Review

 

Conservation and Globalization: A Study of National Parks and Indigenous Communities from East Africa to South Dakota (Case Studies on Contemporary Social Issues) by Jim Igoe (Author). This ebook makes current issues in political ecology and the query of globalization accessible to undergraduate students, in addition to to non-educational readers. It’s also empirically and theoretically rigorous sufficient to attraction to a tutorial audience. CONSERVATION AND GLOBALIZATION opens with a dialogue of these two broad issues as they relate to the author’s fieldwork with Maasai herding communities on the margins of the Tarangire Nationwide Park in Tanzania.

It explores completely different theoretical perspectives (Neo-Marxist and Foucauldian) on globalization and why both are related to the case research presented. Students are launched to the follow of multi-sited ethnography and its centrality to the anthropological research of globalization. While drawing on examples from particular Maasai communities, the e book is extra broadly concerned with the historic and modern hyperlinks between these communities and a global system of institutions, ideas, and money.

The ecological incompatibility of Western nationwide park-style conservation with East African savanna ecosystems and Maasai useful resource management practices, are highlighted. The concept of national parks is traced temporally and geographically from Maasai communities to the enclosed motion in 18th century England and westward expansion in 19th century North America. The relationships of parks to Judeo-Christian assumptions about “man’s place in nature,” colonial ideologies like Manifest Destiny and the Civilizing Mission, and capitalist notions of private property and “The Tragedy of the Commons,” are explored. The e book also appears to be like on the latest conservation paradigm of “Community-Based Conservation,” and explores its connections to the Soviet Collapse, financial and political liberalization, and the worldwide proliferation of NGOs.

It is a wonderfully vital examination of conservation, globalization and social change. This book actually helped me focus my pursuits and change into far more vital thinker.

I extremely advocate this book for programs in environmental science, land and resource administration, globalization, and, after all, any of quite a lot of associated specializations in sociocultural anthropology. It might be a superb book for introductory courses as well.

Conservation and Globalization: A Study of National Parks and Indigenous Communities from East Africa to South Dakota (Case Studies on Contemporary Social Issues)

Jim Igoe (Author)

200 pages

Cengage Learning; 1 edition (August 29, 2003)

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