UDTR — Radar mondial des droits de la Nature

1 Situating the genealogy of liminality in southern African forests

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doi:10.1017/9781805438540.003

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Frank Matose

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2025

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en

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This chapter traces the historical developments of conservation practices in southern Africa in order to situate the chronic liminality witnessed around the cases. A picture is built that portrays the systematic dispossession of local people of their rights over forest resources across South Africa and Zimbabwe. In this chapter, the conundrums presented in the Introduction that facilitated the loss of rights and access are examined in relation to how they came about. As such, emphasis is placed on the separation of nature (forests) from people, the evolution of the modern African state and state agencies in managing protected areas, as well as the entrenchment of introduced property relations on local people around forests. Each of these conundrums is examined from the time of the first reservation of forests for conservation in the late 19th century. For each, the conundrum that has entrenched the loss of rights and access is situated and located within the political economy of each country, in order to set the context of the dimensions of the politics that will follow from each case in subsequent chapters. The period that this chapter covers is rather long and, as such, the focus is restricted to major developments around each of the conservation practices that I trace for the argument made in the book. The rest of the chapter is organised into two major sections for each of the different countries, covering specific periods and outlining significant developments under review. First, the period from 1870 to 1930 – constituting the early colonial dispossession, followed by the period between 1930 and 1980, the main colonial and apartheid period, and lastly, the period between 1980 and 1994. For South Africa, the last period marked the end of apartheid and the ushering in of a democratic dispensation, while for Zimbabwe, the period marked the post-independence era filled with many expectations for people within and around forests.

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W4414497395

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10.1017/9781805438540.003 · 10.1515/9781805438533-006

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• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805438540.003
• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805438533-006
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W4414497395

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