Vinay R. Kamat is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Tanzania and is the author of Silent Violence.

“Vinay Kamat’s exploration of the Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park in Tanzania offers a multifaceted analysis of the social, cultural, and economic complexities surrounding the intersection of conservation and resource extraction, shedding light on the tensions between environmental justice and social justice.”—Anat Rosenthal, author of Health on Delivery: The Rollout of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi"In the far southeast of Tanzania, global, national and community interests in conservation, development, and local livelihoods collide. Drawing on careful, long term ethnographic research, Vinay Kamat provides an often gripping, richly paced account of the complex politics of natural gas extraction in a marine park, and the effects of competing agendas on those for whom this is home."—Lenore Manderson, University of the Witwatersrand, co-editor of Water's Edge: Writing on Water

• ContentsINTRODUCTIONConservation, Extraction, and DispossessionPART ONECHAPTER ONE“Let’s Build the Nation!”: Nation Building and Social Transformation in TanzaniaCHAPTER TWO“The Ocean is Tired”: Marine Conservation, Livelihoods and Food SecurityCHAPTER THREE“In a Wounded Land”: Natural Gas Development in TanzaniaCHAPTER FOUR“No Peace of Mind”: Dispossession and DisplacementPART TWOCHAPTER FIVE“The Government Knows Best”: Conservation, Extraction, and Environmental JusticeCHAPTER SIX“Now Are All Educated”: Rethinking Environmental SubjectivitiesCHAPTER SEVEN“What Really Matters”: Conservation and Well-beingCONCLUSION AND EPILOGUEConservation, Extraction, and Just GovernanceNotesReferences

Vinay R. Kamat is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Tanzania and is the author of Silent Violence.

“Vinay Kamat’s exploration of the Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park in Tanzania offers a multifaceted analysis of the social, cultural, and economic complexities surrounding the intersection of conservation and resource extraction, shedding light on the tensions between environmental justice and social justice.”—Anat Rosenthal, author of Health on Delivery: The Rollout of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi"In the far southeast of Tanzania, global, national and community interests in conservation, development, and local livelihoods collide. Drawing on careful, long term ethnographic research, Vinay Kamat provides an often gripping, richly paced account of the complex politics of natural gas extraction in a marine park, and the effects of competing agendas on those for whom this is home."—Lenore Manderson, University of the Witwatersrand, co-editor of Water's Edge: Writing on Water

• ContentsINTRODUCTIONConservation, Extraction, and DispossessionPART ONECHAPTER ONE“Let’s Build the Nation!”: Nation Building and Social Transformation in TanzaniaCHAPTER TWO“The Ocean is Tired”: Marine Conservation, Livelihoods and Food SecurityCHAPTER THREE“In a Wounded Land”: Natural Gas Development in TanzaniaCHAPTER FOUR“No Peace of Mind”: Dispossession and DisplacementPART TWOCHAPTER FIVE“The Government Knows Best”: Conservation, Extraction, and Environmental JusticeCHAPTER SIX“Now Are All Educated”: Rethinking Environmental SubjectivitiesCHAPTER SEVEN“What Really Matters”: Conservation and Well-beingCONCLUSION AND EPILOGUEConservation, Extraction, and Just GovernanceNotesReferences

Vinay R. Kamat is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Tanzania and is the author of Silent Violence.

“Vinay Kamat’s exploration of the Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park in Tanzania offers a multifaceted analysis of the social, cultural, and economic complexities surrounding the intersection of conservation and resource extraction, shedding light on the tensions between environmental justice and social justice.”—Anat Rosenthal, author of Health on Delivery: The Rollout of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi"In the far southeast of Tanzania, global, national and community interests in conservation, development, and local livelihoods collide. Drawing on careful, long term ethnographic research, Vinay Kamat provides an often gripping, richly paced account of the complex politics of natural gas extraction in a marine park, and the effects of competing agendas on those for whom this is home."—Lenore Manderson, University of the Witwatersrand, co-editor of Water's Edge: Writing on Water

• ContentsINTRODUCTIONConservation, Extraction, and DispossessionPART ONECHAPTER ONE“Let’s Build the Nation!”: Nation Building and Social Transformation in TanzaniaCHAPTER TWO“The Ocean is Tired”: Marine Conservation, Livelihoods and Food SecurityCHAPTER THREE“In a Wounded Land”: Natural Gas Development in TanzaniaCHAPTER FOUR“No Peace of Mind”: Dispossession and DisplacementPART TWOCHAPTER FIVE“The Government Knows Best”: Conservation, Extraction, and Environmental JusticeCHAPTER SIX“Now Are All Educated”: Rethinking Environmental SubjectivitiesCHAPTER SEVEN“What Really Matters”: Conservation and Well-beingCONCLUSION AND EPILOGUEConservation, Extraction, and Just GovernanceNotesReferences