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Clapperton Mavhunga on "Incoming Technology and African Innovation"
Clapperton Mavhunga, Carson Fellow from July to December 2011, talks about his work on incoming technology and African innovation.
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The Kruger National Park: A Social and Political History
Do we owe the world-famous Kruger National Park to the triumph of “good” conservationists over the forces of “evil” commercial exploitation? Environmental historian Jane Carruthers investigates.
Multimedia | journal article
"Concepts of Nature as Communicative Devices: The Case of Dutch Nature Policy"
In this article, Jozef Keulartz, Henny van der Windt, and Jacques Swart examine the role of concepts of nature as communicative devices in public debates and political decision-making.
Perspectives Article
Nature and Territory in the Making of Brazil
During the colonial period, human occupation of Brazil was sparse, fragmented, and uneven. The most significant transformations in rural and urban landscapes in Brazil began in the mid-twentieth century, as part of a broader process of social and economic transformation which brought urbanisation and industrialisation to Brazil.
Perspectives Article
The Biopolitics of the Border
This article discusses the resonances between animal territoriality and geopolitical borders.
Multimedia | journal article
"Disempowering Democracy: Local Representation in Community and Carbon Forestry in Africa"
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Melis Ece, James Murombedzi and Jesse Ribot show how, though all major agencies intervening in community-based and carbon forestry – such as international development agencies, conservation institutions, and national governments – state that their interventions must engage local participation in decision making, forestry interventions conversely weaken local democracy.
Multimedia | journal article
"Facipulation and Elite Formation: Community Resource Management in Southwestern Ghana"
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Manali Baruah scrutinizes elite formation and elite capture through the case of a Community Resource Management Area (CREMA) in western Ghana.
Multimedia | journal article
"Feigning Democracy: Performing Representation in the UN-REDD Funded Nigeria-REDD Programme"
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Emmanuel O. Nuesiri critically examines the United Nations’ REDD and REDD+ programmes (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation plus the sustainable management of forest and enhancement of carbon stocks) in Nigeria and finds them to exclude politically weak rural people.
Multimedia | journal article
"Choices have Consequences: REDD+ and Local Democracy in Kenya"
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Susan Chomba focuses on the local institutions chosen as partners by a prominent United Nations’ Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation programme (REDD+) project in Kenya and the implications of this choice for local democracy.
Multimedia | journal article
"Theorising Derecognition of Local Government Authorities as Political Injustice: The Effects of Technical Claims in Senegal's Forestry"
In this special issue on Disempowering Democracies, Papa Faye shows that “derecognition” is effectively a new “recognition” dynamic in decentralized forest management in Senegal, in which Forestry officials and agents derecognize elected local governments (ELGs) drawing upon technical claims.