Postcolonial nature conservation in practice: the everyday challenges of on-ground urban nature conservation, Cape Town, South Africa
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- 作者：Marnie Graham
- 关键词：Collaborative conservation ; Everyday relations ; Postcolonial nature conservation ; Urban nature ; Cape Town ; Ways of knowing
- 刊名：GeoJournal
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：82
- 期：1
- 页码：43-62
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- 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
- 刊物主题：Human Geography; Geography, general; Environmental Management;
- 出版者：Springer Netherlands
- ISSN：1572-9893
- 卷排序：82
文摘
In a time of biodiversity loss, conservation management literature in Cape Town focuses on biodiversity preservation and top-down management responses. Contributing a more nuanced and politicised understanding of conservation management, this paper examines the challenges of everyday nature conservation and collaboration that occurs nearby Cape Town’s persistently racially-segregated and historically neglected townships. The analysis is based on in-depth interviews with on-ground nature conservators and participant observations in collaborative conservation arrangements with local township residents. Examining the literature on Cape Town’s colonial and apartheid conservation histories, I also consider how manifest through the identified everyday challenges are persistent colonial legacies—including deeply racialised relations, exclusionary conservation practices, and a focus on biodiversity conservation to the neglect of community needs. However, on-ground relations and everyday practices also reveal significant contestations to and transformations away from colonising legacies. The analysis contributes towards a discussion of what it means to be a ‘postcolonial’ nature conservator in Cape Town.