Nature Conservation in Southern Africa

Jan-Bart Gewald, PhD (1996), Leiden University is a historian and Director of the African Studies Centre Leiden. He has published on a wide range of subjects in African history and is specifically interested in the history of the social relationship between people and technology in Africa. His publications include Herero Heroes: A Socio-Political history of the Herero of Namibia 1890-1923 (James Currey, 1999) and The Speed of Change. Motor Vehicles and People in Africa, 1890-2000 (Brill, 2009), which he edited with Sabine Luning and Klaas van Walraven.Marja Spierenburg, Ph.D. (2003), University of Amsterdam, is Professor in Development Studies at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, and is affiliated to Stellenbosch University in South Africa as a Research Fellow. Her research focuses on the role of the private sector in nature conservation and land reforms in southern Africa, and the impacts on local communities’ access to land and livelihood strategies. Marja Spierenburg shares the vice-chair of the Scientific Committee of the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society, one of Future Earth’s core projects. She is also a member of the International Advisory Committee for Biosphere Reserves, and she chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the African Studies Centre Leiden.Harry Wels, Ph.D. (2000), VU University Amsterdam, is Associate Professor at that university, Publications Manager at the African Studies Centre Leiden and is affiliated to the University of Pretoria in South Africa as a Research Fellow. He has published on human-animal relations, including ''Animals like Us’: Revisiting Organizational Ethnography and Research' (Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 2015) and, together with Karen Dalke, 'Ethnographic Research in a Changing Cultural Landscape', in Nyman, J. and Schuurman, N. (eds), Affect, Space and Animals (Routledge, 2016).

• List of Figures and Tables List of Acronyms and AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: People, Animals, Morality, and Marginality:Reconfiguring Wildlife Conservation in Southern Africa Jan- Bart Gewald, Marja Spierenburg, and Harry WelsPart 1Animals in Wildlife Conservation1 A Cattle- Centred History of Southern Africa? Michael Glover2 Brothers in Arms: Baboon- Human Interactions, a Southern African Perspective Jan- Bart Gewald3 Rewilding White Lions: Conservation through the Eyes of Carnivores?Harry WelsPart 2Histories in Wildlife Conservation4 National Parks, Eco- Frontiers, and Transfrontiersmanship in Southern African Conservation Malcolm Draper5 Resurrection Conservation: The Return of the Extinct?Sandra SwartPart 3Politics of Wildlife Conservation6 The Emergence and Socio- Economic Impacts of Wildlife Ranching in South AfricaMarja Spierenburg7 ‘If It Pays, It Stays’: The Lobby for Private Wildlife Ranching in South AfricaTariro Kamuti8 Controlling Sex and Death: On the Wildlife Trophy Industry in South AfricaDhoya SnijdersPart 4Critical Voices in Wildlife Conservation9 Continued State Monopoly and Control of Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Zimbabwe: The Care of Hurungwe’s CAMPFIRE Programme Vupenyu Dzingirai, Albert Manhamo, and Lindiwe Mangwanya10 Poaching: Between Conservation from Below, and Livelihoods and Resistance Paul HebinckIndex