Why are lions killing us? Human-wildlife conflict and social discontent in Mbire District, northern Zimbabwe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4251346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven Matema (0000-0001-8059-2058, University of Zimbabwe, corresponding author), Jens A Andersson, Jens Andersson (0000-0002-8124-3447) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93-120 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x14000664 |
| OpenAlex | W2323923424 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 54 |
An emerging perspective on Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Zimbabwe is that increased authoritarianism in governance has enabled elite capture of wildlife resources and silenced local people's voices. This paper qualifies this perspective, showing how ordinary people continue to raise their concerns about local governance. In the Mbire district, people's interpretations of an upsurge in lion attacks on livestock and people in early 2010 took on a dimension of social commentary on the evolving governance arrangements in the district and beyond. Beneath an apparent human-wildlife conflict lie complex human-human conflicts about access to, and governance of, wildlife resources. Interpretations of the lion attacks built on two distinct epistemologies - a local religious discourse on spirit lions and an ecological one - but invariably construed outsiders as the ones accountable for local problems. This construction of outsiders is also a salient feature of Zimbabwean political discourse. Local voices thus constitute a widely understood discourse of protest
Authoritarianism · Corporate governance · Democracy · Elite · Environmental ethics · Environmental governance · Management · Natural resource · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Wildlife · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
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Complexities of conflict
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Land Degradation and Society
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Modern Social Imaginaries
Concepts for Exploring the Social Aspects of Human–Wildlife Conflict in a Global Context
The CAMPFIRE programme in Zimbabwe
Local Environmental Conservation Strategies
Transfrontier Conservation Areas
CAMPFIRE During Zimbabwe's National Crisis
More than the politics of decentralization
A political ecology of wildlife conservation in Africa
The Radicalised State
Zanu PF politics under Zimbabwe's ‘Power-Sharing’ Government
Sons of the Soil’ and Contemporary State Making
The decline of a model community-based conservation project
An Institutional Theory of Direct and Indirect Rule
Zanu(PF) strategies in general elections, 1980-2000
Agriculture, Foraging and Wildlife Resource Use in Africa
Situating Zimbabwe's natural resource governance systems in history
The Zimbabwean war of liberation
The Politics of Land Scarcity
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Land of the ancestors
Spirits and Land Reforms
Making the Chikunda
Culture and Customes of Kenya
Socio-Religious Movements, the State and Community Change
The Analysis of Social Situations
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |