Perspectives

This article looks at India’s colonial history and the effect that recent economic and political changes have had on the country’s relationship with wild animals.

This article discusses la bête du Gévaudan, a wolf or wolves that terrorized parts of the French populace between 1764 and 1767.

This article explains how a renewed emphasis of the cosmopolitan aspects of conservationist park making could help to acknowledge the genuine moral commitment of activists to the future wellbeing of humankind and planet.

This paper explores the concept of “nature” from the perspective of African meanings and practices that were criminalised as poaching during and after the colonial moment.

This article assesses the impact of Jane Carruthers’ seminal book The Kruger National Park.

In this article, Jane Carruthers outline the merits of Mandy Martin’s artwork and the nature of her projects.

This article looks at whether biocultural diversity be developed as a more totalising idea that is useful for historians.

This article discusses the resonances between animal territoriality and geopolitical borders.

This article looks at how scientific theories—in particular those of South African statesman Jan Smuts—sought to reorient the position of Africa in a global, historic hierarchy.

This article looks at how environmental life histories have been used for particular purposes.