The Elephant in the Room: Confronting the Colonial Character of Wildlife Conservation in Africa
The Elephant in the Room: Confronting the Colonial Character of Wildlife Conservation in Africa
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房间里的大象：面对非洲野生动物保护的殖民特征
作者：
E. Garland
摘要：本文提请注意结构性的不平等，非洲人的立场在全球象征性和政治经济的非洲野生动物保护的特点，并理论化这些不平等的方式，超越了保护的批评，仅仅是一个殖民或新殖民主义的强加。将非洲野生动物保护概念化为全球资本主义生产的一种模式，文章认为，既要扩大分析透镜，通过它来评估保护对非洲的影响，又要纠正目前围绕非洲野生动物保护的全球权力动态。
Abstract: This article draws attention to the structural inequalities that characterize the position of Africans within the global symbolic and political economies of African wildlife conservation, and theorizes these inequalities in ways that move beyond the critique of conservation as simply a colonial or neocolonial imposition. Conceptualizing wildlife conservation in Africa as a mode of global capitalist production, the article argues both for broadening the analytic lens through which the effects of conservation on Africa are assessed, and for redressing the global power dynamics that currently surround the protection of African wild animals.