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Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-02883-1

ISBN: 978-3-030-02882-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 5, 2018

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Introduction

Schauer, Jeff

Pages: 1 –16

[This chapter introduces the core claims of Wildlife between Empire and Nation in Twentieth-Century Africa. Namely, over the course of the twentieth century, control over African wildlife—in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia—shifted from a small imperial lobby to a broader colonial...
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Imperial Ark: Imperial Preservationists and African Wildlife

Schauer, Jeff

Pages: 17 –27

[This chapter explores the emergence of an imperial wildlife preservation lobby comprised of former hunters, liberal reformers, and imperialists. As the British Empire conquered southern, central, and eastern Africa in the late nineteenth century, wresting control over the management of land and...
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Governing the Game: Expertise, Administration, and the Making of Colonial Wildlife Policy in Uganda and Northern Rhodesia

Schauer, Jeff

Pages: 29 –70

[This chapter highlights the critical role of administration amidst the shift from imperial preservation to colonial conservation between the 1920s and 1950s. Uganda created an Elephant Control Department to integrate wildlife management with authorities’ emphasis on development and agriculture,...
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Government Cattle: Anti-Wildlife Politics in East and Central Africa

Schauer, Jeff

Pages: 71 –108

[This chapter explores multiple iterations of “anti-wildlife” politics and critiques offered by African subjects and others of colonial conservation regimes. These critiques began as efforts to reform, as when Nyasaland farmers and missionaries petitioned against the game laws, but embraced forms...
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Deferring Uhuru: Decolonization and the Coming of the Global Wildlife Preservation Movement

Schauer, Jeff

Pages: 109 –155

[This chapter explores the return of wildlife preservationists, now international rather than imperial, during the 1950s and 1960s, as they combined narratives of racial paranoia with notions of global trusteeship over African wildlife. The postwar proliferation of global...
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Pachyderms and Parks: Ecological Politics and East Africa’s National Parks

Schauer, Jeff

Pages: 157 –199

[This chapter takes up the contested role of ecological sciences and study units during the long process of decolonization in East Africa. Comparing the Nuffield Unit of Tropical Animal Ecology (Uganda), the Tsavo Project (Kenya), and the Serengeti Research Institute (SRI) (Tanzania), it...
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National Conservation: Kenya, Britain, and World Bank and Global Entanglements

Schauer, Jeff

Pages: 201 –246

[This chapter examines the interplay between neo-colonialism and African states’ efforts during the 1970s and beyond to nationalize wildlife sectors. In the 1970s, the World Bank became an important funder of wildlife development, working to strengthen states’ capacities while limiting their...
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Conclusion

Schauer, Jeff

Pages: 247 –256

[This chapter reiterates the core arguments of the book about the trajectory of wildlife policy and politics amidst the shifts from empire to nation. It uses the key explanatory themes—administration, militarization, science, nationalism, and a broadening constituency for wildlife—to also suggest...

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