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- Title
Drifting Rhinos and Fluid Properties: The Turn to Wildlife Production in Western Zimbabwe.
- Authors
Suzuki, Yuka
- Abstract
This paper presents and analyzes a number of tensions that arose in the shift from extensive livestock production to wildlife ranching and tourism in a dispersed community of white farmers in western Zimbabwe. It sketches the broader context of that shift and considers some of its effects, including those on the small (black) farmers of neighbouring Communal Areas. The tensions highlighted and manifested between the ranchers of Mlilo include the necessary movement from a characteristic view of wildlife as ‘vermin’, destructive of the conditions for livestock (and crop) production, to an appreciation that they are an exploitable and valuable resource (‘ecological capital’); and how inherited views and practices concerning the boundaries of private landed property are subverted by the demands of wildlife ranching.
- Subjects
ZIMBABWE; TOURISM; AGRICULTURE; LIVESTOCK; RANCHING; ANIMAL culture; SMALL farms; COMMONS; HOUSEHOLD pests; PRODUCTION (Economic theory)
- Publication
Journal of Agrarian Change, 2001, Vol 1, Issue 4, p600
- ISSN
1471-0358
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1471-0366.00020