Wilderness or home? : conflicts, competing perspectives and claims of entitlement over Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia / Asebe Regassa Debelo.

• Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Acronyms -- The research settings, methodology and theoretical frameworks -- Introduction -- Setting the context and methodological frameworks -- The problematic of protected areas conservation -- Some conceptual debates on the politics of nature conservation -- Problematizing conservation enclosure in Ethiopia -- Situating the debate of enclosure within the post-1991 political reconfiguration -- A point of departure -- Research questions -- Methodological frameworks -- The research framework and the choice of methodological perspectives -- Methodological approaches and methods -- The challenge of encountering competing actors in the field -- Actor-oriented approach as analytical concept -- Ethical considerations -- Structure of the work -- Conceptual and theoretical frameworks -- Conceptual frameworks -- Theoretical frameworks -- Notions of nature-culture debates : dualism vs. mutualism -- Political ecology of conservation -- The study area, the people and their relations to the land -- The study area -- The people and their land -- The Guji : the people and their economy, settlement history and their conception of nature -- The Koore and their land -- The establishment of state farm and Arba Minch town : state expansion to the periphery -- Political ecology of nature conservation -- Introduction -- The exportation of national park ideals to Africa -- Introduction -- The countryside ideal and 'wilderness' conservation -- From countryside ideal to national park model in Africa -- Colonial legacies and post-colonial dynamics in conservation discourses -- National parks as colonial legacies -- Global influences -- Changes in value systems among African elites -- Center-periphery relations in Ethiopia and the establishment of Nech Sar National Park -- The center-periphery relations in Ethiopia -- The 'natural' south and the establishment of Nech Sar National Park -- Ethnic federalism and contested spaces in Ethiopia : situating the Nech Sar National Park in the political discourse -- Introduction -- The reconfiguration of the periphery within the new political order -- Recognition of cultural pluralism -- Decentralization of state power -- The lived reality of the new political order (mixed results) -- Ethnic federalism and community voices in the periphery -- The experience from the Nech Sar National Park -- Ethnic federalism, decentralization and the national park -- Privatization of nature conservation-the African parks foundation -- Extending the Nech Sar Case beyond local contexts -- The Nech Sar National Park : an arena of contestation/negotiation on nature-culture relations -- Introduction -- The Ethiopian state : conservationist, 'developmental' or encroacher? -- Situating the conservation-development debate within the identity of the Ethiopian 'state' -- The state and peripheral representations -- Development and conservation in Ethiopia-perspectives from the state -- Towards the 'making of environmental subjects'? -- The national park as a field of contention between the two regional states -- Grassroots actors, a business, conservation organization and human rights advocacy groups -- Grassroots actors -- The Guji Oromo -- The Koore -- Other local actors, groups -- African parks foundation and international human rights advocacy organizations -- State intervention and local responses -- Introduction -- Forms of state intervention -- Forms of local responses to state intervention -- The Guji and their responses to conservation enclosure -- The Koore and their responses to conservation -- Ethnic politics, conservation enclosure and local resistance nexus -- Situating the contestation in domination, resistance relations -- Conclusions : situating conservation enclosures beyond 'environmental degradation thesis' -- Situating the establishment of national parks in Africa beyond the 'environmental degradation thesis' -- Understanding the Nech Sar National Park from the center-periphery relations in Ethiopia -- Problematizing participation -- Theoretical and policy considerations -- Epistemological, theoretical considerations -- Policy dimensions -- Issues for future research -- Bibliography -- List of informants -- Appendices.

Ämnesord

Conservation of natural resources  -- Ethiopia -- Nechisar National Park -- Planning. (LCSH)

Environmental policy  -- Social aspects -- Ethiopia -- Nechisar National Park. (LCSH)

Environmental protection  -- Ethiopia -- Nechisar National Park -- Planning. (LCSH)

Natural resources  -- Ethiopia -- Nechisar National Park -- Management. (LCSH)

Conservation of natural resources  -- Planning. (fast)

Economic history.  (fast)

Environmental policy  -- Social aspects. (fast)

Environmental protection  -- Planning. (fast)

Natural resources  -- Management. (fast)

Social conditions.  (fast)

Nechisar National Park (Ethiopia)  -- Economic conditions. (LCSH)

Nechisar National Park (Ethiopia)  -- Social conditions. (LCSH)

Ethiopia  -- Nechisar National Park. (fast)

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