Roderick P Neumann
Biographic Data
| ID | 100724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roderick P Neumann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roderick P |
| FAMILY NAME | Neumann |
| SIGNATURE | NEUMANN R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2149-0355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 577 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Reimagining National Parks for the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from Yosemite's Past
Many critics of the global rise in conservation displacements have traced the origins of this trend to nineteenth-century California and the establishment of Yosemite National Park. This historical narrative is often labeled the Yosemite model, which is characterized by the violent eviction of Indigenous peoples to create unoccupied wilderness. I propose that the Yosemite model historical narrative overgeneralizes events and neglects the larger g…
Tracing the historical agency of wild animals in the archives: Methodology and multidisciplinarity in posthumanist political ecology
State making through conservation: The case of post-conflict Nepal
Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa
Bram Buscher. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. xviii and 290 pp., maps, photos, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $89.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8223-5404-8); paper $24.95 (ISBN 978-0-82
Churchill and Roosevelt in Africa: Performing and Writing Landscapes of Race, Empire, and Nation
During the months from October 1907 through March 1910, first Winston Churchill and then Theodore Roosevelt traveled through British East Africa on nearly identical routes. Both published a series of magazine articles and widely read books from their travels. At that time both were not only politicians but also popular authors who wrote and spoke on race, nation, and empire, and their travel accounts reflect these interests. This article analyzes…
Political ecology III: Theorizing landscape
In this last of three reports exploring the incorporation of human geography theory within political ecology, I focus on landscape. I begin by surveying recent work on landscape in human geography, which has increasingly stressed non-representational approaches, and then explore how landscape has been treated in political ecology. I found that political ecology shares with human geography more generally many of the same critical responses to the …
Political ecology II: Theorizing region
In this second of three reports exploring the incorporation of human geography theory within political ecology I focus on regions. I review how regions are theorized in human geography and conclude that political ecologists have used the concept inconsistently. I suggest that three trajectories in recent studies offer possibilities for a more rigorous theorization of regions within political ecology: (1) work employing theorizations of the social…
Political ecology: Theorizing scale
Probing the (in)compatibilities of social theory and policy relevance in Piers Blaikie’s political ecology
Modernizing Nature: Forestry and imperial eco-development 1800 1950, by S. Ravi Rajan
The German model of scientific forestry reduced continental Europe's eighteenth-century timber shortages and produced steady, reliable supplies of wood by the mid-nineteenth century. ‘Little wonder’, James Scott observed in Seeing Like a State in 1998, ‘that the German model of intensive commercial forestry became standard throughout the world’ (p. 19). Little wonder, also, that S. Ravi Rajan, in Modernizing Nature, should emphasize the role of E…
Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park (review)
Reviewed by: Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park Roderick P. Neumann Walley, Christine J. 2004. Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 336 pp. $57.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). For more than a decade, community-based natural-resource- management and community-conservation programs have been introduced across the Third World, attracting funding from …
Conservation and globalization: A study of national parks and indigenous communities from East Africa to South Dakota - Igoe, Jim
Making political ecology
Introduction: The Vitality and Promise of Political Ecology Originals and Development of Political Ecology Environment and Development Political Ecology of Nature Conservation Advances and Retreats in Biological Ecology Feminist Political Ecology Environment Politics New Questions, New Direction in Political Ecology Conclusion
Moral and discursive geographies in the war for biodiversity in Africa
The Postwar Conservation Boom in British Colonial Africa
The Poor Are Not Us: Poverty and pastoralism
Journal Article The Poor Are Not Us: Poverty and pastoralism Get access Roderick P. Neumann Roderick P. Neumann Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 100, Issue 398, 1 January 2001, Pages 164–165, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/100.398.164 Published: 01 January 2001
Africa's 'Last Wilderness: Reordering Space for Political and Economic Control in Colonial Tanzania
Focusing on south-eastern Tanzania, this article explores the colonial state's spatial strategies for economic and political control of its citizenry and their concurrence with strategies to control and conserve nature. Analysing British colonial archival documents, it demonstrates that Africa's most famous wilderness, the Selous Game Reserve, is a product of colonisers' economic and political control schemes, not a vestigial pre-modern landscape…
Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa
Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa
Arusha National Park in northern Tanzania, known for its scenic beauty, is also a battleground. Roderick Neumann's illuminating analysis shows how this park embodies all the political-ecological dilemmas facing protected areas throughout Africa. The roots of the ongoing struggle between the park on Mount Meru and the neighboring Meru peasant communities go much deeper, in Neumann's view, than the issues of poverty, population growth, and ignoranc…
Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements
Forest Rights, Privileges and Prohibitions: Contextualising State Forestry Policy in Colonial Tanganyika
This paper analyses the development of state forest management in Tanganyika and its effects on African access and use rights within the larger context of British colonial governance. It explores how the ideologies and interests represented by scientific forestry, the League of Nations Mandate, indirect rule, and the general process of African peasantisation intersected in complex and contradictory ways to restructure African forest rights. Effor…
Primitive Ideas: Protected Area Buffer Zones and the Politics of Land in Africa
This article critically evaluates participatory, integrated conservation and development programmes in Africa, focusing on protected area buffer zones. I argue that, despite the emphasis on participation and benefit-sharing, many of the new projects replicate more coercive forms of conservation practice and often constitute an expansion of state authority into remote rural areas. I suggest that the reasons for this state of affairs can be traced …
Dukes, Earls, and Ersatz Edens: Aristocratic Nature Preservationists in Colonial Africa
In this paper I examine the role of members of the British aristocracy in the movement to create national parks in colonial Africa. Aristocratic hunter preservationists established the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire (SPFE) and used their access to the Colonial Office to help direct colonial conservation policies. Focusing on the Earl of Onslow, SPFE president from 1926-1945, I suggest that the aristocratic experience with…
Local Challenges to Global Agendas: Conservation, Economic Liberalization and the Pastoralists' Rights Movement in Tanzania
S Since the mid‐1980s, “democratization” and structural adjustment, have been transforming domestic political economies throughout sub‐Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, these processes could significantly alter the terrain in the conflict between local land rights and state wildlife conservation. The situation has become increasingly complex as the parties involved ‐ land‐holders, state and international conservation agencies ‐ are joined by land righ…
Manifest Ecological Destinies: Local Rights and Global Environmental Agendas
Political ecology: Theorizing scale
Primitive Ideas: Protected Area Buffer Zones and the Politics of Land in Africa
This article critically evaluates participatory, integrated conservation and development programmes in Africa, focusing on protected area buffer zones. I argue that, despite the emphasis on participation and benefit-sharing, many of the new projects replicate more coercive forms of conservation practice and often constitute an expansion of state authority into remote rural areas. I suggest that the reasons for this state of affairs can be traced …
Moral and discursive geographies in the war for biodiversity in Africa
Ways of Seeing Africa: Colonial Recasting of African Society and Landscape in Serengeti National Park
Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa
Arusha National Park in northern Tanzania, known for its scenic beauty, is also a battleground. Roderick Neumann's illuminating analysis shows how this park embodies all the political-ecological dilemmas facing protected areas throughout Africa. The roots of the ongoing struggle between the park on Mount Meru and the neighboring Meru peasant communities go much deeper, in Neumann's view, than the issues of poverty, population growth, and ignoranc…
Africa's 'Last Wilderness: Reordering Space for Political and Economic Control in Colonial Tanzania
Focusing on south-eastern Tanzania, this article explores the colonial state's spatial strategies for economic and political control of its citizenry and their concurrence with strategies to control and conserve nature. Analysing British colonial archival documents, it demonstrates that Africa's most famous wilderness, the Selous Game Reserve, is a product of colonisers' economic and political control schemes, not a vestigial pre-modern landscape…
Political ecology III: Theorizing landscape
In this last of three reports exploring the incorporation of human geography theory within political ecology, I focus on landscape. I begin by surveying recent work on landscape in human geography, which has increasingly stressed non-representational approaches, and then explore how landscape has been treated in political ecology. I found that political ecology shares with human geography more generally many of the same critical responses to the …
Dukes, Earls, and Ersatz Edens: Aristocratic Nature Preservationists in Colonial Africa
In this paper I examine the role of members of the British aristocracy in the movement to create national parks in colonial Africa. Aristocratic hunter preservationists established the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire (SPFE) and used their access to the Colonial Office to help direct colonial conservation policies. Focusing on the Earl of Onslow, SPFE president from 1926-1945, I suggest that the aristocratic experience with…
Local Challenges to Global Agendas: Conservation, Economic Liberalization and the Pastoralists' Rights Movement in Tanzania
S Since the mid‐1980s, “democratization” and structural adjustment, have been transforming domestic political economies throughout sub‐Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, these processes could significantly alter the terrain in the conflict between local land rights and state wildlife conservation. The situation has become increasingly complex as the parties involved ‐ land‐holders, state and international conservation agencies ‐ are joined by land righ…
The Postwar Conservation Boom in British Colonial Africa
Political ecology II: Theorizing region
In this second of three reports exploring the incorporation of human geography theory within political ecology I focus on regions. I review how regions are theorized in human geography and conclude that political ecologists have used the concept inconsistently. I suggest that three trajectories in recent studies offer possibilities for a more rigorous theorization of regions within political ecology: (1) work employing theorizations of the social…
Manifest Ecological Destinies: Local Rights and Global Environmental Agendas
State making through conservation: The case of post-conflict Nepal
Forest Rights, Privileges and Prohibitions: Contextualising State Forestry Policy in Colonial Tanganyika
This paper analyses the development of state forest management in Tanganyika and its effects on African access and use rights within the larger context of British colonial governance. It explores how the ideologies and interests represented by scientific forestry, the League of Nations Mandate, indirect rule, and the general process of African peasantisation intersected in complex and contradictory ways to restructure African forest rights. Effor…
Probing the (in)compatibilities of social theory and policy relevance in Piers Blaikie’s political ecology
Tracing the historical agency of wild animals in the archives: Methodology and multidisciplinarity in posthumanist political ecology
Churchill and Roosevelt in Africa: Performing and Writing Landscapes of Race, Empire, and Nation
During the months from October 1907 through March 1910, first Winston Churchill and then Theodore Roosevelt traveled through British East Africa on nearly identical routes. Both published a series of magazine articles and widely read books from their travels. At that time both were not only politicians but also popular authors who wrote and spoke on race, nation, and empire, and their travel accounts reflect these interests. This article analyzes…
Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa
Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa
Bram Buscher. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. xviii and 290 pp., maps, photos, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $89.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8223-5404-8); paper $24.95 (ISBN 978-0-82
Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements
Conservation in Africa: People, Policies, and Practice
Political ecology of wildlife conservation in the Mt. Meru area of Northeast Tanzania
The wildlife conservation problems in Tanzania are examined from a political ecology perspective. The analysis is historical, exploring the establishment of national parks under British colonial rule and the tightening of state control over access to resources at the expense of customary rights. Examples are presented from the Mt. Meru area of north‐eastern Tanzania. During the colonial period, the formal political debate over land and resource r…
Local Challenges to Global Agendas: Conservation, Economic Liberalization and the Pastoralists' Rights Movement in Tanzania
S Since the mid‐1980s, “democratization” and structural adjustment, have been transforming domestic political economies throughout sub‐Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, these processes could significantly alter the terrain in the conflict between local land rights and state wildlife conservation. The situation has become increasingly complex as the parties involved ‐ land‐holders, state and international conservation agencies ‐ are joined by land righ…
Manifest Ecological Destinies: Local Rights and Global Environmental Agendas
Ways of Seeing Africa: Colonial Recasting of African Society and Landscape in Serengeti National Park
Dukes, Earls, and Ersatz Edens: Aristocratic Nature Preservationists in Colonial Africa
In this paper I examine the role of members of the British aristocracy in the movement to create national parks in colonial Africa. Aristocratic hunter preservationists established the Society for the Preservation of the Fauna of the Empire (SPFE) and used their access to the Colonial Office to help direct colonial conservation policies. Focusing on the Earl of Onslow, SPFE president from 1926-1945, I suggest that the aristocratic experience with…
Forest Rights, Privileges and Prohibitions: Contextualising State Forestry Policy in Colonial Tanganyika
This paper analyses the development of state forest management in Tanganyika and its effects on African access and use rights within the larger context of British colonial governance. It explores how the ideologies and interests represented by scientific forestry, the League of Nations Mandate, indirect rule, and the general process of African peasantisation intersected in complex and contradictory ways to restructure African forest rights. Effor…
Primitive Ideas: Protected Area Buffer Zones and the Politics of Land in Africa
This article critically evaluates participatory, integrated conservation and development programmes in Africa, focusing on protected area buffer zones. I argue that, despite the emphasis on participation and benefit-sharing, many of the new projects replicate more coercive forms of conservation practice and often constitute an expansion of state authority into remote rural areas. I suggest that the reasons for this state of affairs can be traced …
Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements
Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa
Arusha National Park in northern Tanzania, known for its scenic beauty, is also a battleground. Roderick Neumann's illuminating analysis shows how this park embodies all the political-ecological dilemmas facing protected areas throughout Africa. The roots of the ongoing struggle between the park on Mount Meru and the neighboring Meru peasant communities go much deeper, in Neumann's view, than the issues of poverty, population growth, and ignoranc…
Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa
The Poor Are Not Us: Poverty and pastoralism
Journal Article The Poor Are Not Us: Poverty and pastoralism Get access Roderick P. Neumann Roderick P. Neumann Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 100, Issue 398, 1 January 2001, Pages 164–165, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/100.398.164 Published: 01 January 2001
Africa's 'Last Wilderness: Reordering Space for Political and Economic Control in Colonial Tanzania
Focusing on south-eastern Tanzania, this article explores the colonial state's spatial strategies for economic and political control of its citizenry and their concurrence with strategies to control and conserve nature. Analysing British colonial archival documents, it demonstrates that Africa's most famous wilderness, the Selous Game Reserve, is a product of colonisers' economic and political control schemes, not a vestigial pre-modern landscape…
The Postwar Conservation Boom in British Colonial Africa
Moral and discursive geographies in the war for biodiversity in Africa
Making political ecology
Introduction: The Vitality and Promise of Political Ecology Originals and Development of Political Ecology Environment and Development Political Ecology of Nature Conservation Advances and Retreats in Biological Ecology Feminist Political Ecology Environment Politics New Questions, New Direction in Political Ecology Conclusion
Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park (review)
Reviewed by: Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park Roderick P. Neumann Walley, Christine J. 2004. Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 336 pp. $57.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). For more than a decade, community-based natural-resource- management and community-conservation programs have been introduced across the Third World, attracting funding from …
Conservation and globalization: A study of national parks and indigenous communities from East Africa to South Dakota - Igoe, Jim
Probing the (in)compatibilities of social theory and policy relevance in Piers Blaikie’s political ecology
Modernizing Nature: Forestry and imperial eco-development 1800 1950, by S. Ravi Rajan
The German model of scientific forestry reduced continental Europe's eighteenth-century timber shortages and produced steady, reliable supplies of wood by the mid-nineteenth century. ‘Little wonder’, James Scott observed in Seeing Like a State in 1998, ‘that the German model of intensive commercial forestry became standard throughout the world’ (p. 19). Little wonder, also, that S. Ravi Rajan, in Modernizing Nature, should emphasize the role of E…
Political ecology: Theorizing scale
Political ecology II: Theorizing region
In this second of three reports exploring the incorporation of human geography theory within political ecology I focus on regions. I review how regions are theorized in human geography and conclude that political ecologists have used the concept inconsistently. I suggest that three trajectories in recent studies offer possibilities for a more rigorous theorization of regions within political ecology: (1) work employing theorizations of the social…
Political ecology III: Theorizing landscape
In this last of three reports exploring the incorporation of human geography theory within political ecology, I focus on landscape. I begin by surveying recent work on landscape in human geography, which has increasingly stressed non-representational approaches, and then explore how landscape has been treated in political ecology. I found that political ecology shares with human geography more generally many of the same critical responses to the …
Churchill and Roosevelt in Africa: Performing and Writing Landscapes of Race, Empire, and Nation
During the months from October 1907 through March 1910, first Winston Churchill and then Theodore Roosevelt traveled through British East Africa on nearly identical routes. Both published a series of magazine articles and widely read books from their travels. At that time both were not only politicians but also popular authors who wrote and spoke on race, nation, and empire, and their travel accounts reflect these interests. This article analyzes…
Transforming the Frontier: Peace Parks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation in Southern Africa
Bram Buscher. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. xviii and 290 pp., maps, photos, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $89.95 cloth (ISBN 978-0-8223-5404-8); paper $24.95 (ISBN 978-0-82
Political science (26 works) · Geography (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Politics (16 works) · Biology (10 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Ecology (9 works)