'African Potentials' for Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource Management

Yaya Fonye Odette

Description

This book focuses on two specific areas: wildlife conservation policies and projects, and the interaction between local societies and the surrounding environment in Africa. Against the internationally dominant approach that regards Africa as being a state of 'deficiency', this book demonstrates, based on fieldwork concerning various natural resources (e.g. wildlife, forests, fruit, fish and land) as well as many famous protected areas, that African people are collectively and actively trying to solve the environmental problems they are facing by strategically utilising both indigenous means and new extrinsic opportunities. Meanwhile, it also becomes clear that wildlife conservation still continues to cause local societies a multitude of problems, and the 'potentials' of local people and societies are existing but unnoticed and suppressed by powerful outsiders, and therefore, remaining informal and invisible.

Part I. 'African Potentials' at the Forefront of Wildlife Conservation 

Part II. Re-Examination of 'African Potentials' in the Context of Human-Environment Interactions 

Conclusion - Reality of 'African Potentials': Informal, Invisible and Dynamic Nature without an Arena

Sujets

• Indigenous Studies
• African Studies
• Ethnic Studies
• Essays
• African people
• Indigenous peoples
• Social sciences
• Nature

Informations

• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• EAN13: 9789956552627
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 13 Mo

Extrait

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African Potentials’ for Wildlife
Conservation and Natural
Resource Management:
Against the Image of ‘Deficiency’
and Tyranny of ‘Fortress’
Edited by
Toshio Meguro, Chihiro Ito
and Kariuki Kirigia

In collaboration






Langaa RPCIG CAAS
Mankon Bamenda Kyoto University
Publisher:
Langaa RPCIG
Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group
P.O. Box 902 Mankon
Bamenda
North West Region
Cameroon
[e-mail]
www.langaa-rpcig.net


In Collaboration with
The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan



Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective
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ISBN-10: 9956-552-85-2
ISBN-13: 978-9956-552-85-6

© Toshio Meguro, Chihiro Ito and Kariuki Kirigia 2021





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Notes on Contributors


Yuichiro FUJIOKA is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social
and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan. His main research
fields in Africa are rural areas in northern Namibia and north-east
South Africa. His main research topics are fluctuation of
socioecosystem, agroecosystem and natural resource uses in rural Africa.
His major works include: Socio-Ecosystem of Savanna Agroforest, Kyoto:
Showado (2016, in Japanese) and ‘Unique features of African
agropastoralism: Adapting life and sharing wealth in fluid environment’,
in G. Hyden, K. Sugimura and T. Tsuruta (eds) Rethinking African
Agriculture, London: Routledge, pp. 79–94 (2020).

Shinichiro ICHINO is Researcher at the Center for African Area
Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. His research field is Madagascar.
His research interests include lemur social evolution and lemur
conservation. His major works include: ‘Lifespan and reproductive
senescence in a free-ranging ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) population
at Berenty, Madagascar’, Folia Primatologica, 86 (1-2), pp. 134–139
(2015) and ‘Forest vertebrate fauna and local knowledge among the
Tandroy people in Berenty Reserve, southern Madagascar: A
preliminary study’, African Study Monographs, Supplemental Issue, 54, pp.
115–135 (2018).

Taku IIDA is Professor of Ecological Anthropology at the National
Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. His research interests include
socio-economic changes in fishing communities, human abilities to
develop fishing techniques and its relation to, as well as heritagisation
of, rural life. He is the author of Know-How to Survive on the Coast: An
Eco-Anthropological Study in a Madagascar Fishing Village, Kyoto:
Sekaishisosha (2008, in Japanese) and the Chief Editing Secretary of
Handicrafting the Intangible: Zafimaniry Heritage in Madagascar, Osaka:
National Museum of Ethnology (2013).

Chihiro ITO is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities,
Fukuoka University, Japan. Her research fields are Zambia and
Zimbabwe. Her research concerns rural livelihood, urban–rural
interaction and political ecology. Her major works include:
‘Development of fishing practices within commercial fisheries in Lake Kariba, southern Africa’, African Study Monographs, 41(1), pp.1–
22 (2021), Bridging Urban and Rural: People’s Mobility and Livelihood
Changes in Rural Zambia, Tokyo: Sinsensha (2015, in Japanese) and
‘The growth of “rural business” and its impact on local society in
Zambia’, in A. Takada, I. K. Nyamongo and K. Teshirogi (eds)
Exploring African Potentials: The Dynamics of Action, Living Strategy, and
Social Order in Southern Africa (MILA Special Issue), Nairobi: University
of Nairobi, pp. 49–58 (2014).

Yukino IWAI is Associate Professor at the Hirayama Ikuo Volunteer
Center, Waseda University, Japan. Her research concerns political
ecology of wildlife conservation. She recently implemented a
mitigation project of human–elephant conflict in the villages
adjacent to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Her major works
include: ‘Human–elephant conflict in the Serengeti: The side-effects
of wildlife tourism’, global-e, 11(53) (2018) available at <https://
globalejournal.org/global-e/october-2018/human-elephant-conflict
-serengeti-side-effects-wildlife-tourism>, and Why Elephants Attack
My Village? Tokyo: Godo Shuppan (2017, in Japanese).

Daud KASSAM is Professor of Fisheries Biotechnology and
Biodiversity Conservation in the Department of Aquaculture and
Fisheries Science at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and
Natural Resources, Malawi, where he is responsible for fish genetics
as well as fish biodiversity and conservation. He holds a PhD from
Ehime University, Japan. His main research interests are in the fish
population genetics and in the application of modern genetics and
bioinformatics techniques in the conservation of aquatic biodiversity.
Among his major research projects is the production of Oreochromis
fish hybrids that are capable of outperforming locally available strains
through the exploitation of different fish sex-determining systems.

Kariuki KIRIGIA is a PhD candidate in the Department of
Anthropology at McGill University and an in-coming postdoctoral
fellow at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. His doctoral
research, carried out under the supervision of Prof. John Galaty
within the Institutional Canopy of Conservation (I-CAN) project,
examines how capitalist relations penetrate an indigenous frontier in
a postcolonial setting by studying shifts in land tenure and wildlife
conservation initiatives. Kariuki’s dissertation is informed by an
ethnographic study of the politics and processes of dismantling the Maasai commons of Olderkesi in Narok County, southern Kenya,
and the creation of a wildlife conservancy in the area. At McGill
University, Kariuki has taught ‘Social Change in Modern Africa’ and
‘Swahili Language and Culture’ courses.

Frank MATOSE is Associate Professor in the Department of
Sociology and a Co-Director of the Environmental Humanities
South Centre at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His
research interests are in environmental sociology with a particular
focus on Southern Africa, placing emphasis on the intersection of
local people, the state, capital, forest and resource conservation, and
the political economy of protected areas. He is also a member of the
International Sociological Association (ISA) in which he is active in
the Research Committee on Environment and Society (RC24). He
has a forthcoming monograph, titled Politics of Chronic Liminality:
Forests and the Power of the Marginalised in Southern Africa and an edited
volume, titled The Violence of Conservation in Africa: State, Militarisation
and Alternatives (with M. Ramutsindela and T. Mushonga),
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. For his detailed profile:
http://www.sociology.uct.ac.za/dr-frank-matose.

Motoji MATSUDA is Program Director at the Research Institute
for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan. His research fields are
Nairobi and Western Kenya. His research topics are urbanisation,
migration and conflict. His major works include: Urbanisation from
Below, Kyoto: Kyoto University Press (1998), The Manifesto of
Anthropology of the Everyday Life World, Kyoto: Sekaishisosha (2008, in
Japanese), African Virtues in the Pursuit of Conviviality: Exploring Local
Solutions in Light of Global Prescriptions (co-edited with I. Ohta and Y.
Gebre), Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG (2017) and The Challenge of African
Potentials: Conviviality, Informality and Futurity (co-edited with Y.
OfosuKusi), Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG (2020).

Toshio MEGURO is Associate Professor at the Faculty of
International Studies, Hiroshima City University, Japan. He has
conducted fieldwork in southern Kenya. His research topics are
community-based conservation, participatory development,
environmental governance and changes in Maasai society. His major works
include: ‘The unchanged and unrepresented culture of respect in
Maasai society’, African Study Monographs, 40 (2-3), pp. 93–108 (2019)
and ‘Gaps between the innovativeness of the Maasai Olympics and the positionings of Maasai warriors’, Nilo-Ethiopian Studies, 22, pp.
27–39 (2017).

Maxon NGOCHERA is Chief Fisheries Research Officer in the
Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Forestry and Natural
Resources, and Officer in-charge at the Monkey Bay Fisheries
Research Station in Mangochi, Malawi. He holds a PhD in
Freshwater Sciences from the School of Freshwater Sciences,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. His research interests
include tropical limnology, fisheries management, climate