ABSTRACT
The conservation enterprise is embedded in ideas of the environment through which it promotes a vision of the world and the relations between the non-human and human. The papers in this forum analyse conservation from various vantage points to draw the links between geopolitics and conservation. The authors use three themes to demonstrate these links. The first theme draws on the concept of environmentality to show the mobilization of ecological rationalities and power towards the creation of protected areas. The second pays attention to networks formed across the distance, and how they influence the location and governance of protected areas. The third focuses on the strategies the conservation lobby uses to align local identities with global conservation ideals and goals. Collectively, these themes highlight features of conservation geopolitics.
Notes
1. Additional notes on the Caprivi by Maano Ramutsindela.
2. Decree n°205862 Februrary 17th 1989 .
3. DS No. 22609 of 24 September 1990.
4. Law n°3545 of November 28th 2006.