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urn:uuid:79014435-af8c-43a7-b570-1781b6a452fe 03 15 9781805112990 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast Conservation Histories, Policies and Practices in North-west Namibia 1 A01 Sian Sullivan Sian Sullivan is Professor of Environment and Culture at Bath Spa University. She is interested in discourses and practices of difference and exclusion in relation to ecology and conservation. She has carried out long-term research on conservation, colonialism, and culture in Namibia (www.futurepasts.net and www.etosha-kunene-histories.net), and also engages critically with the financialisation of nature (see www.the-natural-capital-myth.net). She has co-edited Political Ecology: Science, Myth and Power (2000), Contributions to Law, Philosophy and Ecology: Exploring Re-embodiments (2016), Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation: Creating Values that Matter (2018), and Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis (2021). 2 B01 Ute Dieckmann Ute Dieckmann is an anthropologist at the University of Cologne and currently German Principal Investigator for Etosha-Kunene Histories (www.etosha-kunene-histories.net), supported by the German Research Foundation and the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has carried out long-term research in Namibia on colonialism, nature conservation and indigeneity. For many years, she has worked at the Legal Assistance Centre in Windhoek, doing research with and advocacy for marginalised and indigenous communities in Namibia and was coordinator of the Xoms |Omis Project (https://www.xoms-omis.org/). She has edited Mapping the Unmappable? Cartographic Explorations with Indigenous Peoples in Africa (2021) and co-edited Scraping the Pot? San in Namibia Two Decades After Independence (2014). 3 B01 Selma Lendelvo Selma Lendelvo is an associate research professor in life sciences, and currently the Director for the Centre for Grants Management and Resource Mobilization at the University of Namibia (UNAM) with a research and project management experience spanning over 20 years. Her work and publications have mainly been on community-based natural resources management and rural development including cross-cutting aspects such as gender and climate change. Selma also works closely with the government and other practitioners on the ground to strengthen natural resources management, conservation and community development in Namibia and beyond. She serves on the Namibia National Committee for the Rio Conventions, the Namibian Nature Conservation Board and the Namibia Association for CBNRM Support organisations (NACSO). Her collaborations with regional and international partners have been instrumental in shaping and advancing her research and professional career. 01 eng 00 590 03 23 conservation 23 Environmental Studies 10 NAT011000 12 RNK 04 S934.N3 23 African Studies 23 Etosha-Kunene, Namibia 10 POL044000 12 RND 04 S934.N3 23 biodiversity 12 RNF 10 SCI026000 12 1HFM 23 historical injustices 12 1HFMN 23 environmental policy 23 community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) 01 06 03 00 Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast examines the conservation histories and concerns of one of southern Africa’s most iconic conservation regions: the variously connected ‘Etosha-Kunene’ areas of north-central and north-west Namibia. This cross-disciplinary volume brings together contributions from a Namibian and international group of scholars and conservation practitioners, working on topics ranging from colonial histories to water management, perceptions of ‘wildlife’ and the politics of belonging. Together, these essays confront a critical question: how can the conservation of biodiversity-rich landscapes be reconciled with historical injustices of social exclusion and marginalisation?The book is organised in five parts: the first provides a historical backdrop for the book’s detailed case studies, focusing on environmental and conservation policy and legislation; the second investigates post-Independence approaches to conservation; the third focuses on ‘Etosha-Kunene’ ecologies and related management issues; the fourth explores how historical circumstances shape present conservation and cultural landscapes; and the fifth addresses contemporary complexities of lion conservation and community-based natural resource management (CBNRM).By offering a comprehensive overview of evolving conservation boundaries, policies and practices in the region, this timely volume paves the way for the future design of conservation initiatives that more fully consider and integrate historical and cultural knowledge and diversity. Essential reading for conservation practitioners, policymakers, and academic researchers alike, this volume also serves as a valuable resource for university students interested in conservation studies and histories of conservation.The content of this book has been updated. 04 00 Acknowledgements Note on Orthography The Authors List of Abbreviations Preface Etosha-Kunene conservation conversations: An introduction I. CONSERVATION HISTORIES IN ETOSHA-KUNENE 1. Etosha-Kunene, from “pre-colonial” to German colonial times 2. Spatial severance and nature conservation: Apartheid histories in Etosha-Kunene 3. CBNRM and landscape approaches to conservation in Etosha-Kunene, post-Independence II. SOCIAL LIVES OF ETOSHA-KUNENE CONSERVATION, POST-INDEPENDENCE 4. Haiǁom resettlement, legal action and political representation 5. Environmentalities of Namibian conservancies: How communal area residents govern conservation in return 6. The politics of authority, belonging and mobility in disputing land in southern Kaoko Elsemi 7. The emergence of a hybrid hydro-scape in northern Kunene 8. Eliciting empathy and connectedness toward different species in north-west Namibia III. ETOSHA-KUNENE ECOLOGIES 9. Giraffes and their impact on key tree species in the Etendeka Tourism Concession, north-west Namibia 10. Are mountain and plains zebra hybridising in north-west Namibia? 11. Communities and elephants in the northern highlands, Kunene Region, Namibia IV. HISTORICISING CONSERVATION AND COMMUNITY TERRITORIES IN ETOSHA-KUNENE 12. Cultural heritage and histories of the Northern Namib / Skeleton Coast National Park 13. Historicising the Palmwag Tourism Concession, north-west Namibia 14. Living next to Etosha National Park: The case of Ehi-Rovipuka 15. ‘Walking through places’: Exploring the former lifeworld of Haiǁom in Etosha 16. History and social complexities for San at Tsintsabis resettlement farm, Namibia V. PEOPLE, LIONS AND CBNRM 17. Integrating remote sensing data with CBNRM for desert-adapted lion conservation 18. Lion Rangers’ use of SMART for lion conservation in Kunene 19. Relationships between humans and lions in wildlife corridors through CBNRM in north-west Namibia Conclusion: Realising conservation in Etosha-Kunene Appendix: Chronology of conservation legislation and key policies relevant for “Etosha-Kunene”, Namibia List of Images and Videos List of Tables Index Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20240802 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805112969 06 15 9781805112983 06 15 9781805113010 06 15 9781805112990 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 02 5.99 GBP WORLD