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 “The book provides an extensively researched social science perspective on the intersection of conservation (marine preserve), extractive uses (natural gas), and local engagement and perspectives (social, cultural, and economic). This ethnographic account documents the history of this conservation conflict. Recommended.”—C. L. Johnson, CHOICE Connect

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 “The book provides an extensively researched social science perspective on the intersection of conservation (marine preserve), extractive uses (natural gas), and local engagement and perspectives (social, cultural, and economic). This ethnographic account documents the history of this conservation conflict. Recommended.”—C. L. Johnson, CHOICE Connect

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 “The book provides an extensively researched social science perspective on the intersection of conservation (marine preserve), extractive uses (natural gas), and local engagement and perspectives (social, cultural, and economic). This ethnographic account documents the history of this conservation conflict. Recommended.”—C. L. Johnson, CHOICE Connect