Lakes as Rebellious Landscapes: From ‘Fishing Rebels’ to ‘Fishy State Officials’ in DR Congo

Marijnen, Esther

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.10.002

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“…Since then, illegal activities have significantly reduced, and catches have improved on lakes Edward and George (NBI, 2020). Fishers from the DRC are increasingly crossing into Uganda to exploit the opportunities of the improved enforcement on Lake Edward, resulting in fatal crashes and frequent arrests by Uganda's military, which coordinates the enforcement (Kyalwahi, 2021; Marijnen, 2022).…”

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“…In the DRC, management responsibilities are mainly shared among different stakeholders with different spatial or functional jurisdictions (Lubala et al., 2018; Petit, 2006; Vakily, 1989). Some fishing areas are controlled by rebel groups that encourage illegal fishing, discourage monitoring and contest management measures by the government (Marijnen, 2022; Petit, 2006). The earliest report we retrieved for the agency responsible for fisheries management in Uganda was from 1935 (Game and Fisheries Department, 1935), the time the fisheries on the water bodies were developing.…”

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State of knowledge of aquatic ecosystem and fisheries of the Lake Edward System, East Africa

Musinguzi,

Vranken,

Natugonza

et al. 2023

Aquaculture Fish & Fisheries

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Poor and unreliable knowledge of the status of freshwater fisheries limits their inclusion in governance processes, thereby impeding effective management measures. This threatens the livelihoods of people, particularly in developing countries. Improved knowledge is required to draw the attention of policymakers and stimulate effective management measures to accelerate the sustainability of the freshwater fisheries. In line with this requirement, this paper provides the state of knowledge of the aquatic ecosystem and fisheries of the Lake Edward system, East Africa, focusing on lakes Edward, George and the Kazinga channel. The state of knowledge was accomplished by reviewing existing data and information on aspects of primary productivity and water quality, invertebrates, fish fauna, fish life history and ecology, and fisheries. The waterbodies have been monitored since the 1930s, albeit sporadically, providing data on all the above aspects but with substantial temporal gaps. Adequate and updated data and information exist on the water quality status of the water bodies, extant aquatic taxa (including fishes) and fish catches but with uncertainties in the latter. Data and information gaps exist on the abundance of biotic communities, fish life history, quantitative trophic ecology and fisheries management reference points. The aggregated data and information can directly support decisions for fisheries management. We recommend regular monitoring to fill the data and information gaps, more comprehensive stock assessments and the development of aquatic ecosystem models.

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State of knowledge of aquatic ecosystem and fisheries of the Lake Edward System, East Africa

Musinguzi,

Vranken,

Natugonza

et al. 2023

Aquaculture Fish & Fisheries

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“…In total, more than 12 months of intermittent field research was conducted in and around Virunga National Park between 2015 and 2019. In this period, I witnessed the intensification of tourism in Virunga National Park, which pushed my research towards analysing how tourism was promoted, financed and made possible through a range of infrastructural and developmental interventions, financed by the European Commission and others (Marijnen, 2022a).…”

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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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“…Landscapes as co-fabricated between more-than-human bodies and a lively earth have turned attention to ‘the processes and excesses of ‘livingness’ in a more-than-human world’ (Whatmore, 2006: 604; see also e.g. Barua, 2014; Clancy et al, 2021; Connolly, 2017, 2020; Davies, 2021; Garlick, 2019; Geros, 2021; Marijnen, 2021). Crucially, this landscape research explores the entanglements of human habitation and environmental interaction by attending closely to the materialities of landscape.…”

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“…The politics of environmental change is increasingly the focus of work on the more-than-human and political ecologies in landscape (e.g. Barua, 2014; Brettell, 2016; Clancy et al, 2021; Connolly, 2017, 2020; Davies, 2021; Duggan, 2021; Garlick, 2019; Geros, 2021; Hubbard and Wilkinson, 2019; Huddart and Huggan, 2022; Jamieson, 2017; Marijnen, 2021; McConnell and Saladyga, 2020; Ojeda et al, 2021; Olden, 2017; Ray, 2016; Sutherland, 2021; Youngs, 2020). Rapid environmental change is increasingly affecting landscape futures, and this ‘not only puts immediate pressure on identifying alternative futures for landscapes but also threatens to unsettle patterns of attachment to the landscape’ (Bartolini and DeSilvey, 2021: 8).…”

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Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

Mason,

Riding

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Geographers have been engaging with landscape since the beginning of the modern discipline of geography. A series of concurrent turns have taken place in human geography in recent years that are influencing the ways in which geographers approach landscape. We take forward new material, decolonial, and creative shifts in the discipline to reimagine landscape. Landscape is a geographical concept that has historically excluded a range of other voices and perspectives. To build a radically inclusive agenda for landscape research in geography, we put forward a generative conceptualisation of landscape that brings together (i) materiality; (ii) decoloniality; and (iii) creativity.

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Lakes as Rebellious Landscapes: From ‘Fishing Rebels’ to ‘Fishy State Officials’ in DR Congo

Cited by 7 publications

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State of knowledge of aquatic ecosystem and fisheries of the Lake Edward System, East Africa

State of knowledge of aquatic ecosystem and fisheries of the Lake Edward System, East Africa

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

Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

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