Parks and People in Postcolonial Societies Experiences in Southern Africa /

• Main Author: Ramutsindela, Maano (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: GeoJournal Library, 79
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Human geography.; Social Sciences.; Human Geography.

Against the background of colonial and postcolonial experiences, this volume shows that power relations and stereotypes embedded in the original Western idea of a national park are a continuing reality of contemporary national and transnational parks. The volume seeks to dispel the myth that colonia...