National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, this volume adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time. It focuses especially on the actors, networks, mechanisms, arenas, and institutions responsible for the global spread of the national park and the associated utilization and mobilization of asymmetrical relationships of power and knowledge, contributing to scholarly discussions of globalization and the emergence of global environmental institutions and governance.
Innehållsförteckning
Preface
List of Tables, Maps and Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Towards a Global History of National Parks
Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Höhler, Patrick Kupper
PART I: PARKS AND EMPIRES
Chapter 1. Unpacking Yellowstone: The American National Park in Global Perspective
Karen Jones
Chapter 2. How National Were the First National Parks? Comparative Perspectives from the British Settler Societies
Melissa Harper and Richard White
Chapter 3. Imperial Preservation and Landscape Reclamation: National Parks and Natural Reserves in French Colonial Africa
Caroline Ford
Chapter 4. From Colonial Imposition to National Icon: Malaysia’s Taman Negara National Park
Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells
Chapter 5. A Bavarian Serengeti: Space, race and time in the entangled history of nature conservation in East Africa and Germany
Bernhard Gissibl
PART II: ORGANIZATIONS AND NETWORKS
Chapter 6. Translating Yellowstone: Early European National Parks, Weltnaturschutz and the Swiss Model
Patrick Kupper
Chapter 7. Framing the Heritage of Mankind: National Parks on the International Agenda
Anna-Katharina Wöbse
Chapter 8. Global Values, Local Politics: Inuit Internationalism and the Establishment of Northern Yukon National Park
Brad Martin
Chapter 9. Demarcating Wilderness and Disciplining Wildlife: Radiotracking Large Carnivores in Yellowstone and Chitwan National Parks
Etienne Benson
PART III: NATIONS AND NATURES
Chapter 10. A Revolutionary Civilization: National Parks, Transnational Exchanges, and the Construction of Modern Mexico
Emily Wakild
Chapter 11. Parks without Wilderness, Wilderness without Parks? Assigning National Park status to Dutch Man-made Landscapes and Colonial Game Reserves
Henny van der Windt
Chapter 12. Globalizing Nature: National Parks, Tiger Reserves, and Biosphere Reserves in Independent India
Michael Lewis
Chapter 13. Slovenia’s Triglav National Park: From Imperial Borderland to National Ethnoscape
Carolin Firouzeh Roeder
Epilogue: National Parks, Civilization and Globalization
Jane Carruthers
Select Bibliography
Om författaren
Patrick Kupper is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Innsbruck. He is the author of Creating Wilderness: a transnational history of the Swiss National Park (Berghahn 2014).
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