Rough Waters Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park

Name: Rough Waters Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park
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ISBN: 9780691115603

ISBN-10: 0691115605

ISBN-13: 9780691115603

Edition: 2004

Authors: Christine J. Walley

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Rough Watersexplores one of the most crucial problems of the contemporary era--struggles over access to, and use of, the environment. It combines insights from anthropology, history, and environmental studies, mounting an interdisciplinary challenge to contemporary accounts of "globalization." The book focuses on The Mafia Island Marine Park, a national park in Tanzania that became the center of political conflict during its creation in the mid-1990s. The park, reflecting a new generation of internationally sponsored projects, was designed to encourage environmental conservation as well as development. Rather than excluding residents, as had been common in East Africa's mainland wildlife…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Christine Walley is associate professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Glossary of KiSwahili Terms


Preface


Introduction


Conservation and Development in the Age of the Global






Battling for the Marine Park






"When People Were as Worthless as Insects": History, Popular Memory, and Tourism on Chole



The Making and Unmaking of "Community"



Where There Is No Nature






Establishing Experts: Conservation and Development from Colonialism to Independence



Pushing Paper and Power: Bureaucracy and Knowledge within a National Marine Park



Tourist Encounters: Alternate Readings of Nature and "Development"


Epilogue


Participating in the Twenty-first Century


Notes


Bibliography


Index