{"product_id":"transforming-the-frontier-peace-parks-and-the-politics-of-neoliberal-conservation-in-southern-africa-paperback-softback-9780822354208","title":"Transforming the Frontier; Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822354208","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTransforming the Frontier\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePeace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBram Büscher (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822354208\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 April 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 4 photographs, 3 tables, 4 maps\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.458 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Bram Buscher offers an original approach to conceptualizing and examining neoliberal modes of government in action. He uses a richly grounded empirical analysis to shed light on a key puzzle with important political stakes: How are implausible win-win scenarios sustained despite their manifold contradictions, and what kinds of critical work are needed to puncture them? An excellent read.\"-\u003cb\u003eTania Murray Li\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Making a major contribution to political ecology, conservation studies, and the critical analysis of neoliberalization, \u003ci\u003eTransforming the Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to a wide readership of anthropologists, sociologists, Africanists, historians, geographers, and those in development and environmental studies. Bram BÜscher sheds new light on our understanding of environmental conservation and economic development projects by providing a truly brilliant critique of the intersection of conservation development and neoliberalization in southern Africa.\"-\u003cb\u003ePaige West\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eFrom Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Like a skilled jurist, Bram BÜscher pieces together a compelling argument about the corrupting influences of neoliberalism in environmental policy by using the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation and Development Project as a case study…. Using an ethnographic approach that combines political ecology with international relations to delve into these elements, BÜscher makes insightful arguments to show how governance structure emerges and why it evolves as it does. At its best, the book uses this to contrast community-based natural resource management with bioregional conservation planning.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Michael Schoon (Global Governance) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTransforming the Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e is a concise book-length analysis of one particular transboundary conservation initiative. It expertly combines extensive theoretical discussion with the results of in-depth . . . field work. At the same time, it demonstrates how the MDTP is illustrative of a wider trend in contemporary conservation discourse and practice. BÜscher’s efforts to link MDTP dynamics to the regional and global neoliberal political economy are convincing.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Jörg Balsiger (Mountain Research and Development) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTransforming the Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e is a sophisticated, theoretically heavy text, one that provokes the reader to seriously reflect on the effect of the increasingly common neoliberal governance of conservation. It is well worth the read.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Jonathan Clapperton (Conservation Biology) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[A] masterful piece of scholarship that should find a hallowed place on our bookshelves . . .\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Larry Swatuk (Review of Policy Research) \u003cdiv\u003e\" . . . [Buscher's] approach immerses the reader in cutting edge academic thinking on conservation in the modern world . . . and gives the reader an idea of what tools are needed to conceptualise and analyse complex governmental systems in action . . . Buscher's book will surely help on the road to greater understanding.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - James Middlemass (International Journal of Environmental Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTransforming the Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rich political ecology and a fascinating look not only at how the real and material are both discursive and nondiscursive categories but BÜscher also clearly points to how these lines are blurring as conservation and development delve further and further into neoliberal arenas.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Alicia Davis (PoLAR)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eInternational peace parks-transnational conservation areas established and managed by two or more countries-have become a popular way of protecting biodiversity while promoting international cooperation and regional development. In \u003ci\u003eTransforming the Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e, Bram BÜscher shows how cross-border conservation neatly reflects the neoliberal political economy in which it developed.\u003cp\u003eBased on extensive research in southern Africa with the Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation and Development Project, BÜscher explains how the successful promotion of transfrontier conservation as a \"win-win\" solution happens not only in spite of troubling contradictions and problems, but indeed because of them. This is what he refers to as the \"politics of neoliberal conservation,\" which receives its strength from effectively combining strategies of consensus, antipolitics, and marketing. Drawing on long-term, multilevel ethnographic research, BÜscher argues that transfrontier conservation projects are not as concerned with on-the-ground development as they are purported to be. Instead, they are reframing environmental protection and sustainable development to fit an increasingly contradictory world order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Frontiers of Conservation 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Forging (Trans)frontier Spaces 27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Neoliberal Amplifications 49\u003cbr\u003e 3. Compressing Reality 81\u003cbr\u003e 4. Divergent Interpretations 109\u003cbr\u003e 5. Processing Politics 135\u003cbr\u003e 6. Images of an Intervention 169\u003cbr\u003e 7. Neoliberal Alignments 195\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 219\u003cbr\u003e Notes 233\u003cbr\u003e References 263\u003cbr\u003e Index 285\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580194091288,"sku":"9780822354208","price":20.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/transforming-the-frontier-peace-parks-and-the-politics-of-neoliberal-conservation-in-southern-africa-paperback-softback-9780822354208","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}