Benjamin Gardner – författare
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Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game hunting companies. It contrasts two major approaches to community conservation—international NGO and state-sponsored conservation efforts on the one hand and the neoliberal private investment in tourism on the other—and investigates their profound effect on the Maasai’s culture and livelihood. It further explores how these changing social and economic forces remake the terms through which state institutions and local people engage with foreign investors, communities, and their own territories. And finally it highlights how the new tourism arrangements change the shape and meaning of the nation-state and the village and in the process remake cultural belonging and citizenship.Benjamin Gardner’s experiences in Tanzania began during a study-abroad trip in 1991. His stay led to a relationship with the nation and the Maasai people in Loliondo lasting almost twenty years; it also marked the beginning of his analysis of and ethnographic research into social movements, market-led conservation, and neoliberal development around the Serengeti.
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Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game hunting companies. It contrasts two major approaches to community conservation—international NGO and state-sponsored conservation efforts on the one hand and the neoliberal private investment in tourism on the other—and investigates their profound effect on the Maasai’s culture and livelihood. It further explores how these changing social and economic forces remake the terms through which state institutions and local people engage with foreign investors, communities, and their own territories. And finally it highlights how the new tourism arrangements change the shape and meaning of the nation-state and the village and in the process remake cultural belonging and citizenship.Benjamin Gardner’s experiences in Tanzania began during a study-abroad trip in 1991. His stay led to a relationship with the nation and the Maasai people in Loliondo lasting almost twenty years; it also marked the beginning of his analysis of and ethnographic research into social movements, market-led conservation, and neoliberal development around the Serengeti.
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While listening to an opera in an old theater, Nathaniel, who is blind, walks up onto stage to discover that he is caught between two worlds. When his eyes are open, he senses an abstract and empty space he calls The Screen. When he closes his eyes, he sees a forest conjured by the hamadryads of the opera.
Both of these places are filled with terror, though. Nathaniel can''t let go of the idea that his spouse, who left him without an explanation, is present in one of the worlds. He''ll do anything for the chance to see Hana again. As he negotiates being in two places he also forms a covenant with The Director, an omnipresent and malevolent entity who haunts theater stages and seems to be conducting both worlds.
Der Wald is a story built from the parable of two wolves as Nathaniel feeds the wolf of negative emotions and becomes the horror in the woods. Drawing influence from the opera Der Wald by Ethel Smith and E.T.A. Hoffmann''s short story "The Sandman", this incantatory and strange novella engages the tension between good and evil to remind readers of the transience of human emotions. As Smyth described the story of her opera, "It is a short and tragic story of paradox framed in the tranquility and unendingness of nature..."