Fatal misconceptions: colonial durabilities, violence and epistemicide in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

Mertens, Charlotte; Perazzone, Stéphanie; Mwambari, David

doi:10.1080/21681392.2022.2059901

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“…The distance between residents and tourists leaves little room or agency for 'local actors' to influence or challenge the affective geographies tourists hold and reproduce about the area. The highly mediated experiences of eco-war tourism resemble various colonial durabilities reinforce racial stereotypes, and silence 'local' voices and experiences (Mertens et al, 2022). As Stroler notes, the colonial past continues through 'the narratives recounted about them, the unspoken distinctions they continue to "cue", and the affective charges they reactivate ' (2016: 5).…”

Section: War-zone Tourism Green Militarization and Their Affective Ge...mentioning

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Eco-war tourism: Affective geographies, colonial durabilities and the militarization of conservation

Marijnen

2022

Security Dialogue

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This article introduces ‘eco-war tourism’, a growing niche in which tourists venture into war zones to seek adventure and ‘save’ nature from its violent surroundings. In Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, such tourists can experience the ‘threat of mortality’ while visiting mountain gorillas, contribute to the survival of the park and supposedly participate in regional peacebuilding. This article considers how the amalgamated commodification of war and gorillas leads to the bunkerization of tourism, the reconfiguration of space into ‘safe’ and ‘dangerous’ areas and the militarization of conservation. It links critical security studies and political ecology to theorize how eco-war tourism intensifies green militarization and how militarized conservation itself becomes a spectacularized tourist attraction. Eco-war tourism is informed by, and productive of, various affective geographies, entrenched in colonial durabilities that produce Eurocentric ideas about how and by whom nature should be protected. I call for critical security studies to examine how diverse security interventions – e.g. military, tourism, humanitarianism and conservation – are entangled in and reconfigure inherently political nature–society relations and underscore the futility of approaching ‘society’ and ‘the environment’ as separate fields of security.

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Section: War-zone Tourism Green Militarization and Their Affective Ge...mentioning

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Eco-war tourism: Affective geographies, colonial durabilities and the militarization of conservation

Marijnen

2022

Security Dialogue

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Vernacular memories: recalling Rwanda’s 1943–44 famine during the Covid-19 hunger crisis

Mwambari

2023

Third World Quarterly

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Ending Global Violence Through Radical Feminist Theory: The Teachings of bell hooks on Power and Domination

Perazzone

2023

Civil Wars

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Fatal misconceptions: colonial durabilities, violence and epistemicide in Africa’s Great Lakes Region

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Cited by 5 publications

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Eco-war tourism: Affective geographies, colonial durabilities and the militarization of conservation

Eco-war tourism: Affective geographies, colonial durabilities and the militarization of conservation

Vernacular memories: recalling Rwanda’s 1943–44 famine during the Covid-19 hunger crisis

Ending Global Violence Through Radical Feminist Theory: The Teachings of bell hooks on Power and Domination

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