Lerato Thakholi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1601902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lerato Thakholi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lerato |
| FAMILY NAME | Thakholi |
| SIGNATURE | THAKHOLI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wageningen University & Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9848-6499 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Convivial fences? Property, ‘right to wildlife’ and the need for redistributive justice in South African conservation
In South Africa, fences are ubiquitous. From urban centers to rural landscapes, myriad fences divide properties, fortify estates, and protect private interests. In biodiversity conservation, likewise, fences are instrumental in legally assigning property rights over wildlife. They are furthermore deemed necessary to avoid human-wildlife conflict, save human and animal lives and, most of all, safeguard wildlife properties for the benefit of their …
Conserving inequality: How private conservation and property developers 'fix' spatial injustice in South Africa
In 2016, South Africa launched its National Biodiversity Economy Strategy. This strategy aims to facilitate the development of a 'wildlife economy' as a solution to unemployment, loss of biodiversity and rural development. Central to the strategy is the role of private conservation actors, who keenly posit their commercial model as the best way to achieve these objectives. This stands in sharp contrast to recent critiques that suggest that privat…
Fossilized conservation, or the unsustainability of saving nature in South Africa
This paper argues that the conservation sector in South Africa is fossilized - unsustainable, outmoded and resistant to change - in two integrated ways. First, it is completely dependent on and steeped in fossil fuels and mineral extraction. The historical development of the South African economy's reliance on fossil and mineral resources provides the basis for this dependency but has since tentacularized into the very fabric of conservation and …
Introduction: Fallen from grace? the legacy and state of Southern African conservation
For many decades, southern Africa has been at the forefront of global conservation paradigms and practices, ranging from protected area models and community-based conservation to transfrontier parks and, more recently, the wildlife economy. A key goal of many of these was to meet conservation and development goals, something that often proved elusive. In fact, what has been consistent across these conservation strategies is a continuation of many…
The new green apartheid? Race, capital and logics of enclosure in South Africa's wildlife economy
In this paper, we explore relations between race, capital and wildlife conservation in the town of Hoedspruit and its surroundings, which has developed into one of the main centres of the lucrative and rapidly growing 'wildlife economy' in South Africa. Behind its image as a shining 'green' example of wildlife-based development is a highly unequal and racialised state of affairs that is deeply unsustainable. At the core of these dynamics are priv…
Black Belonging, White Belonging: Primitive Accumulation in South Africa's Private Nature Reserves
Evictions have been shown to be a mechanism of primitive accumulation in nature conservation. This paper adds an historical analysis to the discussion on primitive accumulation in conservation by exploring the seemingly innocuous mechanism of White belonging to land in South Africa's private nature reserves. Contemporary articulations of White belonging are replete with stories and images of White male “pioneers” from the colonial era who, upon a…
Unravelling 'public participation' in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area
"Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area." Journal of Southern African Studies, 48(1), pp. 203–204
Conservation labour geographies: Subsuming regional labour into private conservation spaces in South Africa
Critical scholars have started analysing conservation as a ‘mode of production’, which entails conservation’s inclination to transform the value of nature into capital. This mode of production is underpinned by labour relations that have thus far escaped systematic analysis. To fill this gap, I use Smiths’ reading of the capitalist production of space to develop the concept of conservation labour geographies which untangles the spatial outcomes o…
The biopolitics of private conservation: Jeopardizing Labor and Rhino to Optimize Capital
The conservation of biodiversity has increasingly been analyzed as biopolitical. That is, conservation initiatives such as breeding programs and protected areas seek to optimize some nonhuman life forms while exposing others to harm or degradation. Biopolitical conservation studies have looked at the implications of how human and non-human lives have been valued differently. Wildlife has received more attention than the lives of conservation labo…
Conservation labour geographies: Subsuming regional labour into private conservation spaces in South Africa
Critical scholars have started analysing conservation as a ‘mode of production’, which entails conservation’s inclination to transform the value of nature into capital. This mode of production is underpinned by labour relations that have thus far escaped systematic analysis. To fill this gap, I use Smiths’ reading of the capitalist production of space to develop the concept of conservation labour geographies which untangles the spatial outcomes o…
The new green apartheid? Race, capital and logics of enclosure in South Africa's wildlife economy
In this paper, we explore relations between race, capital and wildlife conservation in the town of Hoedspruit and its surroundings, which has developed into one of the main centres of the lucrative and rapidly growing 'wildlife economy' in South Africa. Behind its image as a shining 'green' example of wildlife-based development is a highly unequal and racialised state of affairs that is deeply unsustainable. At the core of these dynamics are priv…
Fossilized conservation, or the unsustainability of saving nature in South Africa
This paper argues that the conservation sector in South Africa is fossilized - unsustainable, outmoded and resistant to change - in two integrated ways. First, it is completely dependent on and steeped in fossil fuels and mineral extraction. The historical development of the South African economy's reliance on fossil and mineral resources provides the basis for this dependency but has since tentacularized into the very fabric of conservation and …
Conserving inequality: How private conservation and property developers 'fix' spatial injustice in South Africa
In 2016, South Africa launched its National Biodiversity Economy Strategy. This strategy aims to facilitate the development of a 'wildlife economy' as a solution to unemployment, loss of biodiversity and rural development. Central to the strategy is the role of private conservation actors, who keenly posit their commercial model as the best way to achieve these objectives. This stands in sharp contrast to recent critiques that suggest that privat…
Introduction: Fallen from grace? the legacy and state of Southern African conservation
For many decades, southern Africa has been at the forefront of global conservation paradigms and practices, ranging from protected area models and community-based conservation to transfrontier parks and, more recently, the wildlife economy. A key goal of many of these was to meet conservation and development goals, something that often proved elusive. In fact, what has been consistent across these conservation strategies is a continuation of many…
The biopolitics of private conservation: Jeopardizing Labor and Rhino to Optimize Capital
The conservation of biodiversity has increasingly been analyzed as biopolitical. That is, conservation initiatives such as breeding programs and protected areas seek to optimize some nonhuman life forms while exposing others to harm or degradation. Biopolitical conservation studies have looked at the implications of how human and non-human lives have been valued differently. Wildlife has received more attention than the lives of conservation labo…
Black Belonging, White Belonging: Primitive Accumulation in South Africa's Private Nature Reserves
Evictions have been shown to be a mechanism of primitive accumulation in nature conservation. This paper adds an historical analysis to the discussion on primitive accumulation in conservation by exploring the seemingly innocuous mechanism of White belonging to land in South Africa's private nature reserves. Contemporary articulations of White belonging are replete with stories and images of White male “pioneers” from the colonial era who, upon a…
Conservation labour geographies: Subsuming regional labour into private conservation spaces in South Africa
Critical scholars have started analysing conservation as a ‘mode of production’, which entails conservation’s inclination to transform the value of nature into capital. This mode of production is underpinned by labour relations that have thus far escaped systematic analysis. To fill this gap, I use Smiths’ reading of the capitalist production of space to develop the concept of conservation labour geographies which untangles the spatial outcomes o…
The biopolitics of private conservation: Jeopardizing Labor and Rhino to Optimize Capital
The conservation of biodiversity has increasingly been analyzed as biopolitical. That is, conservation initiatives such as breeding programs and protected areas seek to optimize some nonhuman life forms while exposing others to harm or degradation. Biopolitical conservation studies have looked at the implications of how human and non-human lives have been valued differently. Wildlife has received more attention than the lives of conservation labo…
Unravelling 'public participation' in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area
"Unravelling ‘public participation’ in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area." Journal of Southern African Studies, 48(1), pp. 203–204
Black Belonging, White Belonging: Primitive Accumulation in South Africa's Private Nature Reserves
Evictions have been shown to be a mechanism of primitive accumulation in nature conservation. This paper adds an historical analysis to the discussion on primitive accumulation in conservation by exploring the seemingly innocuous mechanism of White belonging to land in South Africa's private nature reserves. Contemporary articulations of White belonging are replete with stories and images of White male “pioneers” from the colonial era who, upon a…
Convivial fences? Property, ‘right to wildlife’ and the need for redistributive justice in South African conservation
In South Africa, fences are ubiquitous. From urban centers to rural landscapes, myriad fences divide properties, fortify estates, and protect private interests. In biodiversity conservation, likewise, fences are instrumental in legally assigning property rights over wildlife. They are furthermore deemed necessary to avoid human-wildlife conflict, save human and animal lives and, most of all, safeguard wildlife properties for the benefit of their …
Conserving inequality: How private conservation and property developers 'fix' spatial injustice in South Africa
In 2016, South Africa launched its National Biodiversity Economy Strategy. This strategy aims to facilitate the development of a 'wildlife economy' as a solution to unemployment, loss of biodiversity and rural development. Central to the strategy is the role of private conservation actors, who keenly posit their commercial model as the best way to achieve these objectives. This stands in sharp contrast to recent critiques that suggest that privat…
Fossilized conservation, or the unsustainability of saving nature in South Africa
This paper argues that the conservation sector in South Africa is fossilized - unsustainable, outmoded and resistant to change - in two integrated ways. First, it is completely dependent on and steeped in fossil fuels and mineral extraction. The historical development of the South African economy's reliance on fossil and mineral resources provides the basis for this dependency but has since tentacularized into the very fabric of conservation and …
Introduction: Fallen from grace? the legacy and state of Southern African conservation
For many decades, southern Africa has been at the forefront of global conservation paradigms and practices, ranging from protected area models and community-based conservation to transfrontier parks and, more recently, the wildlife economy. A key goal of many of these was to meet conservation and development goals, something that often proved elusive. In fact, what has been consistent across these conservation strategies is a continuation of many…
The new green apartheid? Race, capital and logics of enclosure in South Africa's wildlife economy
In this paper, we explore relations between race, capital and wildlife conservation in the town of Hoedspruit and its surroundings, which has developed into one of the main centres of the lucrative and rapidly growing 'wildlife economy' in South Africa. Behind its image as a shining 'green' example of wildlife-based development is a highly unequal and racialised state of affairs that is deeply unsustainable. At the core of these dynamics are priv…
Political science (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Wildlife (5 works) · Mining and Resource Management (4 works)