Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast: Conservation Histories, Policies and Practices in North-west Namibia - cover image

Copyright

Sian Sullivan; Ute Dieckmann; Selma Lendelvo. Copyright of individual chapters are maintained by the chapter author(s).

Published On

2024-08-02

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-296-9
PDF978-1-80511-298-3
HTML978-1-80511-301-0
EPUB978-1-80511-299-0

Language

  • English

Print Length

590 pages (xxiv+566)

Dimensions

Paperback210 x 41 x 297 mm(8.27" x 1.61" x 11.69")

Weight

Paperback1890g (66.67oz)

Media

Illustrations156
Tables16
Videos5

OCLC Number

1450859900

LCCN

2021388893

THEMA

  • RNK
  • RND
  • RNF
  • 1HFMN

BIC

  • RNK
  • RND
  • RNF
  • 1HFM
  • 1HFMN

BISAC

  • NAT011000
  • POL044000
  • SCI026000

LCC

  • S934.N3
  • S934.N3

Keywords

  • conservation
  • Etosha-Kunene, Namibia
  • biodiversity
  • historical injustices
  • environmental policy
  • community-based natural resource management (CBNRM)

Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast

Conservation Histories, Policies and Practices in North-west Namibia

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.

Endorsements

This book 'offers an immense contribution to knowledge on conservation practices in Namibia and beyond. Any ardent seeker of knowledge on conservation practices should take the opportunity to read and become informed by the arguments presented in this book, and thereby become empowered to make informed choices regarding their practices in the conservation arena. I heartily recommend it to academic and other audiences as an addition to our knowledge on conservation histories and transformations in Namibia.'

Dr Kletus Likuwa

University of Namibia

Additional Resources

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Contents

Etosha-Kunene Conservation Conversations: An introduction

(pp. 1–20)
  • Sian Sullivan
  • Ute Dieckmann
  • Selma Lendelvo

1. Etosha-Kunene, from “pre-colonial” to German colonial times

(pp. 23–68)
  • Sian Sullivan
  • Ute Dieckmann
  • Selma Lendelvo

2. Spatial severance and nature conservation: Apartheid histories in Etosha-Kunene

(pp. 69–108)
  • Ute Dieckmann
  • Sian Sullivan
  • Selma Lendelvo

3. CBNRM and landscape approaches to conservation in Kunene Region, post-Independence

(pp. 109–140)
  • Selma Lendelvo
  • Sian Sullivan
  • Ute Dieckmann

4. Haiǁom resettlement, legal action and political representation

(pp. 143–166)
  • Ute Dieckmann

5. Environmentalities of Namibian conservancies: How communal area residents govern conservation in return

(pp. 167–190)
  • Ruben Schneider

6. The politics of authority, belonging and mobility in disputing land in southern Kaoko

(pp. 191–218)
  • Elsemi Olwage

7. The emergence of a hybrid hydro-scape in northern Kunene

(pp. 219–242)
  • Diego Augusto Menestrey Schwieger
  • Michael Bollig
  • Elsemi Olwage
  • Michael Schnegg

8. Eliciting empathy and connectedness toward different species in north-west Namibia

(pp. 243–254)
  • Likeleli Zuvee Katjirua
  • Michael Shipepe David
  • Jeff Muntifering

9. Giraffes and their impact on key tree species in the Etendeka Tourism Concession, north-west Namibia

(pp. 257–270)
  • Kahingirisina Maoveka
  • Dennis Liebenberg
  • Sian Sullivan

10. Are mountain and plains zebra hybridising in north-west Namibia?

(pp. 271–288)
  • ǂKîbagu Heinrich Kenneth |Uiseb

11. Communities and elephants in the northern highlands, Kunene Region, Namibia

(pp. 289–304)
  • Michael Wenborn
  • Roger Collinson
  • Siegfried Muzuma
  • Dave Kangombe
  • Vincent Nijman
  • Magdalena S. Svensson

12. Cultural heritage and histories of the Northern Namib / Skeleton Coast National Park

(pp. 307–342)
  • Sian Sullivan
  • Welhemina Suro Ganuses

13. Historicising the Palmwag Tourism Concession, north-west Namibia

(pp. 343–374)
  • Sian Sullivan

14. Living next to Etosha National Park: The case of Ehi-Rovipuka

(pp. 375–402)
  • Arthur Hoole
  • Sian Sullivan

15. ‘Walking through places': Exploring the former lifeworld of Haiǁom in Etosha

(pp. 403–426)
  • Ute Dieckmann

16. History and social complexities for San at Tsintsabis resettlement farm, Namibia

(pp. 427–444)
  • Stasja Koot
  • Moses ǁKhumûb

17. Integrating remote sensing with CBNRM for desert-adapted lion conservation

(pp. 447–470)
  • John Heydinger

18. Lion Rangers’ use of SMART for lion conservation in Kunene

(pp. 471–482)
  • Mathilde Brassine

19. Relationships between humans and lions in wildlife corridors through CBNRM in north-west Namibia

(pp. 483–494)
  • Uakendisa Muzuma

Conclusion: Realising conservation, from Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast

(pp. 495–502)
  • Ute Dieckmann
  • Selma Lendelvo
  • Sian Sullivan

Contributors

Sian Sullivan

(editor)
Professor of Environment and Culture at Bath Spa University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0522-8843
http://www.futurepasts.net/

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).

Ute Dieckmann

(editor)
Anthropologist at University of Cologne
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9640-6942
https://www.xoms-omis.org/

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).

Selma Lendelvo

(editor)
Associate Research Professor at University of Namibia
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9793-6950

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.