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- Title
Market–community collaborative wildlife management in Malawi: subjectivities and shifting configurations of protests and celebrations.
- Authors
Zuka, Sane Pashane; Zuka, Brenda Kanyika
- Abstract
Summary: Although wildlife management models across the world have since the early 1980s shifted from top-down fortress conservation to different labels of people-friendly community-based conservation, their outcomes remain contested. This paper explores how, and in whose interests, approaches to wildlife conservation in Malawi have been reconfigured from fortress conservation to market–community collaborative management. Based on qualitative field data, we demonstrate how varying levels of community participation in the processes of wildlife conservation transformed the identities and interests of powerful groups of people regarding wildlife conservation in the Majete Wildlife Reserve. We highlight how commodification and monetarization of wildlife conservation served the interests of the emergent powerful groups whilst marginalizing those of the weak. The work indicates how new community identities with regard to wildlife conservation mask the power hegemonies that dictate mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion regarding natural resource use.
- Subjects
MALAWI; WILDLIFE management; COMMUNITY involvement; WILDLIFE conservation; NATURAL resources; WILDLIFE refuges; GROUP identity; SUBJECTIVITY
- Publication
Environmental Conservation, 2024, Vol 51, Issue 2, p134
- ISSN
0376-8929
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0376892924000043