Seeing the National Park from Outside It: On an African Epistemology of Nature

This paper explores the concept of “nature” from the perspective of African meanings and practices that national parks or game reserves found in existence, displaced to “the other side of the fence,” and criminalised as poaching during and after the colonial moment. Focusing on the vaShona people of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mavhunga, Clapperton Chakanetsa
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85847
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6262-0964