Across Africa and South-East Asia, the impulse to protect nature often dovetails with the domination of local people. From mass displacement to severe restrictions on land use and daily acts of violence, conservation work risks reproducing Eurocentric modes of colonialism and worsening the effects of the climate crisis. In this insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of conservation, Tropical Nature seeks to provide a much-needed history of the Global South from its own perspective. Comparing case studies ranging from Ali Bongo’s Gabon, to the postcolonial African itinerary of the agronomist Arthur Bunting, this volume advances a “small-scale global history” that deciphers the relations binding human societies to the non-human world.
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Introduction: Protecting Nature in Africa and Asia. Towards a Small-Scale Global History
Guillaume Blanc
Chapter 1. Laissez-Faire Conservation. Nature Protection in Colonial Vietnam
Pamela Mc Elwee
Chapter 2. Setting up a Wildlife Department. Kenyan Expertise in Malaya
Mathieu Guérin
Chapter 3. Imperial Forests and Nature Reserves in Singapore, 1883-1959
Timothy P. Barnard
Chapter 4. Rambouillet, Agricultural Stations, and French Colonial Africa. Conserving and Improving Nature (1900-1930)
Raphaël Devred
Chapter 5. Missing Conservation? On the Puzzling Dearth of Nature Conservation in Mandate Syria and Lebanon
Diana K. Davis
Chapter 6. Between Empire and Development. The Ubiquitous Life and Career of Arthur Hugh Bunting
Joseph M. Hodge
Chapter 7. The Adamsons, Born Free, and the Late Colonial Era. Images That Helped to Change the Animal World
William Beinart
Chapter 8.Conservation in the Days of Independence. the Case of the Seychelles, 1968-1974
Grégory Quenet
Chapter 9. Tracking Wildebeests. the Technological Mediation of Spaces for Humans and Wildlife in the Serengeti since 1950
Simone Schleper
Chapter 10. Conserving Nature in Mozambique. Relaying Conservation Practices and Imaginaries since Colonial Days
Rozenn Nakanabo Diallo
Chapter 11. Catfights and Crocodile Tears. Conflict, Charismatic Species, and Nature Professionals in India’s Conservation History
Meera Anna Oommen
Chapter 12. Representing Space to Structure Time. Tropical Deforestation Fronts in the Light of Human-Territory Relations
Johan Oszwald
Conclusion: Studying Nature, Networks, and Power. What Next?
Guillaume Blanc
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Sobre el autor
Grégory Quenet is Professor of Environmental History at UVSQ-Paris Saclay University and holder of the Laudato Si’ Chair Pour une nouvelle exploration de la terre at the Collège des Bernadins. A specialist in environmental history, he has worked on natural disasters in the modern era, written an intellectual history of environmentalism, and helped ecologize the Château de Versailles.
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