UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT AND ACCUMULATION BY DISPOSSESSION IN NATURE CONSERVATION: COMPARING RECENT TRENDS IN THE AZORES AND TANZANIA

ABSTRACT This paper applies Harvey's concepts of uneven development and accumulation by dispossession to nature conservation, comparatively, in the contexts of whale watching in the Azores and wildlife conservation in Tanzania. In both contexts, nature conservation revolves around processes of...

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Published in:Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 2012-04, Vol.103 (2), p.164-179
Main Authors: NEVES, KATJA, IGOE, JIM
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
accumulation by dispossession
Azores
Capitalism
Cetacea
conservation
Conservation of resources
Deregulation
Ecological analysis
Economic development
Environmental policy
Government and politics
Nature conservation
Neoliberalism
Portugal
Social organization
Tanzania
Territoriality
Trends
Uneven development
Wildlife
Wildlife conservation
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Summary:ABSTRACT This paper applies Harvey's concepts of uneven development and accumulation by dispossession to nature conservation, comparatively, in the contexts of whale watching in the Azores and wildlife conservation in Tanzania. In both contexts, nature conservation revolves around processes of de‐regulation, re‐regulation, and territorialisation, facilitating new forms of capitalist expansion. Adapting Bourdieu's arguments and the inter‐changeability of different forms of capital, we provide ethnographic insight on how these processes unfold. Our analysis reveals two recent trends in nature‐society relations in late capitalism: (1) these processes are less determined by ownership than the ability to render different kinds of capital commensurable with one another; and (2) they depend on specific types of ‘performances’, which are encouraged and rewarded by neoliberal forms of environmental governance.
ISSN:0040-747X
1467-9663
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9663.2012.00710.x