Settler Ecologies tells the story of how settler colonialism becomes memorialized and lives on through ecological relations. Drawing on eight years of research in Laikipia, Kenya, Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio use immersive methods to reveal how animals and plants can be enrolled in the reproduction of settler colonialism. The book details how ecological relations have been unmade and remade to enable settler colonialism to endure as a structure in this part of Kenya. It describes five modes of violent ecological transformation used to prolong structures of settler colonialism: eliminating undesired wild species; rewilding landscapes with more desirable species to settler ecologists; selectively repeopling wilderness to create seemingly more inclusive wild spaces and capitalize on biocultural diversity; rescuing injured animals and species at risk of extinction to shore up moral support for settler ecologies; and extending settler ecologies through landscape approaches to conservation that scale wild spaces. Settler Ecologies serves as a cautionary tale for future conservation agendas in all settler colonies. While urgent action is needed to halt global biodiversity loss, this book underscores the need to continually question whether the types of nature being preserved advance settler colonial structures or create conditions in which ecologies can otherwise be (re)made and flourish.
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Settler Ecologies reveals how settler colonialism impacts and endures through ecological relations.
Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction1. Eliminating 2. Rewilding3. Repeopling 4. Rescuing 5. ScalingConclusionAfterword NotesReferencesIndex
“Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio offer a richly detailed and important retelling of the production of conservation landscapes in Kenya. Combining historic analysis with ethnography, they deftly weave the personal and political into a compelling account that disrupts popular narratives of quintessentially wild African landscapes. In its place Settler Ecologies exposes the ongoing acts of displacement, exclusion, replacement, and remaking involved in creating specific kinds of ecologies that support settler colonial roles in Africa and perpetuate colonial imaginaries of African landscapes.”
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781487553616
Publisert
2024-04-12
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Toronto Press
Vekt
320 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Om bidragsyterne

Charis Enns is a presidential fellow in socio-environmental systems at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester. Brock Bersaglio is an associate professor of environment and development in the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham.