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• eBook available Published May 2025

  Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples

  Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development

  Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)

  The second edition of this remarkable book updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.

  Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

  
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• Forthcoming October 2026

  Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience

  Case Studies from the African Diaspora

  Waldron-Moore, P. (ed)

  Acknowledging that low economic development and high climate costs do not equitably coexist, this collected volume interrogates the challenge for disaster-prone territories to determine supplemental strategies for restructuring and redesigning their environment.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals

  
  
• Published March 2024

  Environing Empire

  Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa

  Kalb, M.

  Between the infamous Benguela Current and the Namib Desert, nature significantly effected the progression of German imperialism and the creation of German Southwest Africa. Environing Empire reveals the environmental infrastructures that defined not only the culture of German colonial entanglements, but the fantasy that drove Lebensraum during the Second Reich.

  Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)

  
  
• Published October 2023

  Lands of the Future

  Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa

  Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)

  Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa.

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Mobility Studies Sustainable Development Goals

  
  
• eBook available Published December 2024

  Water, Life, and Profit

  Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger

  Keough, S. B. & Youngstedt, S. M

  Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Keough and Youngstedt offer new insights into the lived experiences of gender, ethnicity, class, and spatial structure in Niamey’s water economies today.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sustainable Development Goals

  
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• eBook available Published January 2022

  The Forest People without a Forest

  Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon

  Lueong, G. M.

  The Forest People without a Forest explores how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. These interventions raise paradoxes of belonging for the Baka, and are often targeted toward competing and contradictory goals.

  Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

  
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• eBook available Published February 2020

  Life as a Hunt

  Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape

  Marks, S. A.

  The landscape of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley has been crafted over centuries by the Valley Bisa who live there. Stuart Marks explores an emergent dissonance with the inconvenient conventions and myths of conservationists, administrators and philanthropists who seek to intervene in Africa’s environmental and wildlife crises on new terms and with technical means.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)

  
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• eBook available Published June 2019

  The Nature of German Imperialism

  Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa

  Gissibl, B.

  This is the first book-length study analyzing the origins of Tanzania’s wildlife conservation under German colonial rule. It examines the shift of wildlife policies from exploitation to preservation. By situating East Africa’s conservation in a global context, The Nature of German Imperialism shows how colonial policy helped to shape international conservationist efforts.

  Subjects: Colonial History Environmental Studies (General)

  
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• Published January 2023

  The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective

  Knörr, J. & Kohl, C. (eds)

  For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the world engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. This book examines how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in social phenomena that have resulted.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Colonial History

  
  
• Published April 2017

  Beyond the Lens of Conservation

  Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another

  Keller, E.

  This ethnography examines how the cooperation between a national park in Madagascar and a Swiss zoo is perceived by ordinary people at either end. One view focuses on power and history, the other on morality and progress. Nature conservation therefore widens the gap between people in the North and South.

  Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology

  
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• Published March 2009

  Local Science Vs Global Science

  Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development

  Sillitoe, P. (ed)

  
  

  Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)

  
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