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Mapping new administrative domains for integrating conservation and development, and defining rights in terms of both new policy and the citizenry governed thereby, are central to current neoliberal environment and development programmes known as Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM). Examples now abound of the ambiguous and frequently contested outcomes of such initiatives and processes. In this paper I draw on historical and ethnographic material for north-west Namibia, and particularly in relation to Damara/≠Nū Khoen, to explore two issues. First, I highlight an historical context of multiple displacements and mapped reorganisations of landscapes and human populations, and an associated politicising of alternative memories of land access and use. Second, I consider a nexus of constitutive and affective relationships with landscape that tend to be displaced by the economistic ‘culture complex’ of neoliberalism. Acknowledging epistemological and ontological disjunctions in conceptions and experiences of people-land relationships might go some way towards generating nuanced understanding regarding why conflict emerges in these contexts; as well as constituting a frame for thinking through who and what wins or loses given contemporary globalising trajectories.
African Affairs
Fighting Fences and Land Grabbers in the Struggle for the Commons in N#a Jaqna, Namibia2021 •
Livestock owners, elites and non-elites alike, from different parts of Namibia fence in land that belongs to the indigenous San people who collectively manage their land as a conservancy. Fencing violates the Communal Land Reform Act of 2002. The conservancy started a lawsuit in August 2013 with reference to this Act to remove the fences and end the illegal occupation of land. The High Court ruled in 2016 in favour of the conservancy, but the fences have not been removed and more illegal settlers have settled in the conservancy. We conceptualize and analyse the act of fencing as land grabbing but argue simultaneously that the legal battle of the conservancy is more than a struggle for justice. The case unfolds as an ontological struggle between actors, their institutions and respective policies and discourses, pivoting on conflicting visions of modernities of (rural) development in Tsumkwe West. The wider significance beyond N̸=a Jaqna is that the core of struggles about land and rights in situations of land grabbing is whose modernity counts. The court case has also paved the way for conservancies and other resource communities to become involved in dealing with land issues and contesting the multiple meanings of land.
2005 •
A PARADOX ... When I reflect on CBNRM in southern Africa, I find myself caught between two views or positions. I genuinely do not know what to make of the paradox that thereby arises. On the one hand, I am full of admiration for how the architects of CBNRM have successfully read and participated in the neoliberal zeitgeist of the post cold-war era. I celebrate the achievements in terms of capturing large amounts of donor funding for linking conservation and development agendas in ‘the south’. I also appreciate that CBNRM-based initiatives have generated opportunities for rural people to access monetary, employment and other benefits, largely from increased wildlife-based tourism enterprises; whilst also building and enhancing local infrastructural and governance structures related to CBNRM. In Namibia these relate primarily to the establishment of communal-area conservancies, which are described in more detail in Inset 1...
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2019 •
As former mobile foraging peoples, the indigenous Hai//om San of Namibia lost most of their land-including Etosha National Park and Mangetti West-to other groups and the state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. After independence (1990), the government redistributed some of this land to various expropriated groups. In the following overview , we delve into this complex history to argue that the recent decision by the Hai//om (2015) to file a collective action lawsuit against the government of Namibia over Etosha and Mangetti West must be seen in a context of ongoing, often subtle, processes of land dispossession simultaneously taking place as a result of marginalisation and structural disempowerment.
Future Pasts is a cross-disciplinary project researching critical and cultural conjunctions between ‘sustainability’ and ‘environmental change’. Funded primarily through the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) ‘Care for the Future’ research theme, and developed in conjunction with our Namibian partner organisations (the National Museum of Namibia, Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, Save the Rhino Trust, and Mamokobo Film and Research), Future Pasts explores understandings and practices of ‘sustainability’ and ‘environmental change’ in west Namibia, where three of our UK academics have long-term field experience. Through combining methods and theoretical perspectives from social anthropology, cultural geography, environmental history, environmental ethics and ethnomusicology, we intend enquiry that is cross- and trans-disciplinary, drawing on a hybrid range of disciplinary and situated perspectives. This inaugural working paper in the Future Pasts Working Papers series introduces our research aims and orients our project in the historically globalised and diverse cultural landscapes of west Namibia. We note that concerns about ‘environmental crises’ also constitute opportunities for engagement. We thereby highlight emergent ‘green economy’ responses through which the creation of markets for products arising from the production of sustainability is considered to ‘perform green’. We engage these market-based green performativities in juxtapositions with varied cultural histories, discourses, values and practices regarding socioecological phenomena, observing that the latter may be both delegitimised and/or capitalised through entanglements with modern technical and economic interventions. We acknowledge the range of cultural registers through which socio-environmental knowledges may also be transferred and mediated, emphasising combinations of songs, dances, poetic stories and memories. We note some ways in which these enactments and embodied knowledges may ‘haunt’ the present, even as they are masked by currently hegemonic trajectories of economic development amidst contexts of environmental crisis. To further engage with narratives of environmental change in west Namibian contexts we present a comparative assessment of repeat images of west Namibian landscapes, as well as bringing varied sources of data – from samples of indicator species to audio recordings of places and landscapes – to bear in reconstructing historical ecologies of the Namib. We draw the threads of our research together into a theoretical approach that asks questions of the ethical outcomes effected by different cultural understandings of sustainability and environmental change, and thus of assumptions regarding best practice in transferring socioecological value(s) forwards to the future. Our title ‘Future Pasts’ acknowledges that understandings of the past guide present recommendations for the future, while querying whose version of past values may become privileged in present productions of sustainability.
Academia Green Energy
Uniting science, policy, and industry for a greener world: unveiling the path of Academia Green Energy2023 •
O diário dos elementos químicos (Atena Editora)
O diário dos elementos químicos (Atena Editora)2024 •
2015 •
Making Spaces into Places. The North Aegean, the Balkans and Western Anatolia in the Neolithic
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Introduction to Accounting for Inter-corporate Investments2020 •
Media, linguaggi, comunicazione: scenari del presente e del futuro
Populismo digitale e informazione giornalistica fra logiche globali e contesti locali2023 •
JURNAL RISET KESEHATAN POLTEKKES DEPKES BANDUNG
Pengembangan Media Promosi Kesehatan Buku Saku “Germas” Bagi Kader Kesehatan2020 •
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Rock Demers : de Nicolet aux Contes pour tous2001 •
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Heterogeneous Beliefs and Asset Pricing in Discrete Time2006 •
Statisztikai szemle
A 60 éves ötös lottó tapasztalatai, tévhitek és tények2017 •
2021 •
2012 •
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
The Sheet Metal Formability of AA-5083-O Sheets Processed by Friction Stir Processing2015 •