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Nature, environmental change and conservation: how models of nature and change travel between Africa and Europe II 
Convenors:
Michael Bollig (University of Cologne)
Romie Nghitevelekwa (University of Namibia)
Thomas Widlok (University of Cologne)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
Climate change
Location:
Room 1199
Sessions:
Thursday 9 June, -
Time zone: Europe/Berlin

Short Abstract:

The panel traces travelling models of nature and nature conservation . While many European conservationists derive their ideas on wilderness from their experiences in Africa, conservation measures in Africa are often developed along European or North American models of nature protection.

Long Abstract:

Although the area under nature protection is much larger in Africa than in Europe, many of the models of nature and for nature conservation involved have been imported into Africa from elsewhere. Models range widely from fortress protection to concepts of community-based approaches and "working landscapes". In this panel, we invite contributions that investigate the exchange between Africa and Europe with regard to models of nature, of natural and human-induced environmental change and nature conservation. We are particularly interested in how models that travelled between continents were locally adapted and changed in the process. Of special interest here are the reciprocal effects of the exchange: Many Europeans derive their current ideas of nature as wilderness from experiences in Africa. Similarly, many administrators and conservation agents in Africa have received training abroad. Finally, many local people in various parts of Africa have a very varied experience with nature conservation measures. We will seek to establish, how much of that local knowledge finds its way to Europe and what could facilitate a more symmetrical flow of models.

With environmental change at a global scale, there is a growing need for orchestrated action and the pooling of knowledge. This applies not only to effective measures to protect nature as a cross-continental living environment for humans but also to the affective involvement of humans who participate in "the nature that they are themselves" as living bodies. This session therefore seeks to not only compare management strategies but also the underlying cultural models of nature, the existing expectations and sentiments that may hamper or facilitate mutual exchange and trans-continental dialogue.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 9 June, 2022, -
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