Wildlife Management in Tanzania
State Control, Rent Seeking and Community Resistance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5111981 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tor A Benjaminsen (0000-0003-0192-833X), Mara J Goldman (0000-0001-9864-256X), Maya Y Minwary, Faustin Maganga (0000-0002-3188-6989), Faustin P Maganga |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1087-1109 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Development and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-155X • E-ISSN: 1467-7660 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/dech.12055 |
| OpenAlex | W1952974621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 67 |
| References cited | 34 |
Despite a decade of rhetoric on community conservation, current trends in Tanzania reflect a disturbing process of reconsolidation of state control over wildlife resources and increased rent-seeking behaviour, combined with dispossession of communities. Whereas the 1998 Wildlife Policy promoted community participation and local benefits, the subsequent policy of 2007 and the Wildlife Conservation Act of 2009 returned control over wildlife and over income from sport hunting and safari tourism to central government. These trends, which sometimes include the use of state violence and often take place in the name of 'community-based' conservation, are not, however, occurring without resistance from communities. This article draws on in-depth studies of wildlife management practices at three locations in northern Tanzania to illustrate these trends. The authors argue that this outcome is more than just the result of the neoliberalization of conservation. It reflects old patterns of state patrimony and rent seeking, combined with colonial narratives of conservation, all enhanced through neoliberal reforms of the past two decades. At the same time, much of the rhetoric of neoliberal reforms is being pushed back by the state in order to capture rent and interact with villagers in new and oppressive ways
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Geography · Government (linguistics) · North American Model of Wildlife Conservation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rent-seeking · Resistance (ecology) · Rhetoric · Sociology · State (computer science) · Tanzania · Wildlife · Wildlife conservation · Wildlife management · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Law · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
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Territoriality by Conservation in the Selous–Niassa Corridor in Tanzania
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Impact of Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas on household wealth
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Regards sur l'action publique en Afrique
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Many have Spoken for us, Now we Speak for Ourselves
Institutional Rhetoric Versus Local Reality
Sensing inequity
Exploring paradoxes in the search for sustainable livelihoods
Turbulent Terrains
From Rationalities to Practices
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Creating Landscapes of Coexistence
Austere Conservation
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Tourism Taxation, Politics and Territorialisation in Tanzania's Wildlife Management
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Turbulent times
Decolonizing Primate Conservation Practice
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Othering Pastoralists, State Violence, and the Remaking of Boundaries in Tanzania’s Militarised Wildlife Conservation Sector
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The Grass Beneath
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| Unique citing works | 67 |
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| Citations per year | 5,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 62 |