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P053b


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The present-day politics of biodiversity conservation in sub-Saharan Africa circa 2021 
Convenors:
Andrew Ainslie (University of Reading)
Joana Sousa (Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra)
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Format :
Panel
Sessions:
Friday 29 October, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

Conceptual framings, policy debates and innovations in the financing of biodiversity conservation have all undergone decades of change. We ask why is that the voices of Africans who live adjacent to or within protected areas remain unheard and marginal to these many changes and innovations.

Long Abstract:

Conceptual framings, policy debates and innovations in the planning, financing and management of biodiversity conservation - including through the increasing deployment of advanced information technologies - have all undergone decades of significant change across and in relation to sub-Saharan Africa (Büscher and Fletcher 2020). At the global and national levels, and in INGO and private company boardrooms, the discourses, models and programs for biodiversity conservation are both increasingly sophisticated and apparently evermore socially inclusive. This panel asks why it is that the voices, viewpoints and aspirations of Africans who live adjacent to or within protected areas seem too frequently to remain unheard and marginal to these many changes and innovations. In particular, local people's independent access to conservation funds and to decision-making spaces remain controversially peripheral within protected area management. We invite contributions from across the continent that elucidate ethnographic case-studies which explore, contextualise and of course challenge this contention.

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Session 1 Friday 29 October, 2021, -
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