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Subject: Conservation and Globalization: A Study of National Parks and
    Indigenous Communities from East Africa to South Dakota

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Thought this might be of interest to all.  More details at:
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ine_number=15&product_isbn_issn=0534613179

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Conservation and Globalization - A Study of National Parks and Indigenous
Communities from East Africa to South Dakota
1st Edition
Jim Igoe - University of Colorado, Denver
0534613179

192 pages Paper Bound 6 3/8 x 9 1/4

© 2004 Available Now

^Õ About the Author ^Õ Table of Contents ^Õ Features ^Õ Ancillaries
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This book makes current issues in political ecology and the question of
globalization accessible to undergraduate students, as well as to
non-academic readers. It is also empirically and theoretically rigorous
enough to appeal to an academic audience. CONSERVATION AND GLOBALIZATION
opens with a discussion of these two broad issues as they relate to the
author's fieldwork with Maasai herding communities on the margins of
Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. It explores different theoretical
perspectives (Neo-Marxist and Foucauldian) on globalization and why both are
relevant to the case studies presented. Students are introduced to the
practice of multi-sited ethnography and its centrality to the
anthropological study of globalization. While drawing on examples from
specific Maasai communities, the book is more broadly concerned with the
historical and contemporary links between these communities and a global
system of institutions, ideas, and money. The ecological incompatibility of
Western national park-style conservation with East African savanna
ecosystems and Maasai resource management practices, are highlighted. The
concept of national parks is traced temporally and geographically from
Maasai communities to the enclosure movement 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 book also looks at the latest conservation paradigm of "Community-Based
Conservation," and explores its connections to the Soviet Collapse, economic
and political liberalization, and the global proliferation of NGOs.



 About The Author


Jim Igoe
Jim Igoe is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Colorado at Denver. He received his doctorate in sociocultural anthropology
from Boston University in 1999. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in the
Arusha region of Tanzania. His research has focused on the formation of
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in pastoral communities in general,
and the impact of NGOs on Maasai and Barabaig ethnic communities in
particular, as well as the complexities of the interaction of international,
national and local agendas. Additional research focused on the
implementation of community-based conservation projects and the relationship
of local people to national parks. Igoe's current teaching and research
interests include human ecosystems and the limits of the western
conservation models; community ecological anthropology; community
conservation; developmental anthropology with an emphasis on NGOs; and the
history of anthropological theory.


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 Table of Contents


1. Seeing Conservation through the Global Lens.
2. A Clash of Two Conservation Models.
3. Fortress Conservation: A Social History of National Parks.
4. The Maasai NGO Movement and Tanzania's Transition from Fortress
Conservation to Community-Based Conservation.
5. National Parks and Indigenous Communities: A Global Perspective.
Bibliography.



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 Features


The case study challenges students to critically think about popular notions
of conservation, wilderness, and "traditional" indigenous peoples.

Rather than focusing on other cultures and what makes them seem strange to
us, the book emphasizes Western assumptions about nature and our place in
the universe, and why these might seem strange to other cultures. It also
addresses the ways in which this particular Western worldview has been
imposed on other cultures through international conservation and development
programs.

Globalization as a system of discourses and material processes that have
impacted peoples' lives in every part of the world^×from indigenous
communities in Alaska to Zimbabwe^×are examined.

The methodology of multi-sited ethnography allows students to see how
distant global processes like the Soviet Collapse, are able to influence
something as seemingly unrelated as conservation initiatives in rural
African communities.