The Geopolitics of Protected Areas

Ramutsindela, Maano; Guyot, Sylvain; Boillat, Sébastien; Giraut, Frédéric; Bottazzi, Patrick

doi:10.1080/14650045.2019.1690413

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“…This conclusion is a contribution to the emerging scholarship on global conservation frontiers (Buchadas et al., 2022; Laako and Kauffer, 2021; Vasile and Iordăchescu, 2022) and eco‐frontiers (Guyot, 2011; Ramutsindela et al., 2020). Patagonia's conservation frontier has been shaped by histories of Indigenous genocide, sovereignty, and borderland territorialization processes.…”

Section: Patagonia Multiple: a Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 73%

Multiple territorialities and the shifting conservation frontiers of Patagonia

Rasmussen,

Mendoza

2023

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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This conclusion to the In‐Focus issue examines the conservation frontier in Patagonia. The conservation frontier is a historical process of spatial transformation connected to the mobilization of imaginaries that unlock existing regimes of resource control and promote new territorialization projects. The discussion highlights the creation of national park systems, the securing of the contested border, and the conversion of Andean Patagonia into a space of sublime wilderness. We argue that the contemporary conservation frontier is an open field of contestation defined by its multiplicities. The articles comprising the special issue reflect crosscutting themes regarding frontier multiplicities: varied conservation‐based territorialization projects; the genesis of onto‐epistemic frictions between actors; and disparate frontier temporalities that anchor spatial transformations. These contemporary frontier projects draw attention to new avenues of change related to Indigenous self‐rule and carework, co‐management regimes, infrastructure building efforts, and eco‐apocalyptic temporalities, as well as hyping the possibility of Patagonia as a bastion for alternative energy. Thus, this conclusion highlights how conservation frontiers are historically made and remade in relation to spatial production tied to capitalist dynamics and state formation.

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Section: Patagonia Multiple: a Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 73%

Multiple territorialities and the shifting conservation frontiers of Patagonia

Rasmussen,

Mendoza

2023

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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“…Efforts to conserve certain spaces and the resources within countries are further fraught by politically reinforcing a human/nonhuman binary, rather than viewing the human and nonhuman world as part of an integrated assemblage. Resource conservation shapes human behavior and interactions with the biophysical environment and in some cases reinforces state sovereignty through control over resource conservation (Ramutsindela et al, 2020). Scalar approaches to resource extraction have also been taken up by political geographers, which includes both macro and microscale analyses, while there remains a distinct focus on how these processes effect local populations.…”

Section: Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political geography 1: Extractions

Fluri

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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This progress report incorporates the concept of extraction as an umbrella term for political and geopolitical analyses of the spaces, sites, settings, and scales of power, authority, influence, and resistance. The political geographies of extraction discussed in this report include an assemblage of human-and-nonhuman actors across divergent epistemologies and ontologies, as well as forms of recognition, representation, and repression within and across states, borders, and spatial scales. The research surveyed here covers both state and non-state actors to address national and corporate methods commensurate with ongoing and new conflicts over resources, how they are extracted, conserved, distributed, shared, and hoarded.

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“…Some have expressed optimism about transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) as a mechanism of cooperation (Nshimbi and Moyo 2020). Others have gestured to the questionable history of TFCAs in achieving their aims of becoming an effective geopolitical instrument for enabling the internationalisation of state territory, economic prosperity, preserving biodiversity, and promoting cooperation between nations (Ramutsindela et al 2020;Büscher 2013). Much has been written about the need to critically understand the establishment of conservation areas as part of colonial and neo-colonial natural resource alienation, highlighting imbalances of power and dispossession in the name of the environment (Bruna 2019).…”

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Uneven Donor Engagement and Fraught Transboundary Conservation Approaches

Spiegel¹,

Kachena²

2023

Conservation and Society

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Mainstream environmental literature has often presented the initiation of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa as progress, obscuring the influences of geopolitics and capitalist power relationships that shape TFCA initiatives. Recognising the need to explore trajectories that threaten the very core of what TFCA approaches, in theory, stand for, we undertook an ethnographic study in the Chimanimani TFCA along the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border to examine outcomes of uneven funding commitments associated with geopolitics and neoliberal conservation initiatives. We discuss how on the Mozambique side, access to donor funding linked to neoliberal programming has been associated with unfulfilled promises of 'conservation-based enterprises' and the grabbing of livelihood resources, while constricted access to conservation funding has been instrumentalised as a rationale for coercive 'fortress conservation' approaches in Zimbabwe, shaping tensions between park authorities and buffer communities. Communities on both sides of the TFCA experience unintended socio-ecological trajectories associated with economic inequalities and systems of exploitation, in turn leading to fraught conservation in the TFCA. Considering how these inequalities in TFCA management have also been worsened by shocks, including extreme climatic events and the COVID-19 pandemic, we conclude that more attention is warranted to the impact of uneven donor engagement driven by neoliberal principles and geopolitics on conservation.

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The Geopolitics of Protected Areas

Cited by 17 publications

References 63 publications

Multiple territorialities and the shifting conservation frontiers of Patagonia

Multiple territorialities and the shifting conservation frontiers of Patagonia

Political geography 1: Extractions

Uneven Donor Engagement and Fraught Transboundary Conservation Approaches

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