Crocodile Crimes: People Versus Wildlife and the Politics of Postcolonial Conservation on Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe

摘要: This article is about the politics of conservation in postcolonial Southern Africa. It focuses on process and consequences redefining Nile crocodile as an endangered species explores linked local international, commercial conservationist interests that allowed animal to re-establish itself state-protected waterways colonial contexts. investigates effects animal's successful re-accommodation by examining conflicts between crocodiles fishing communities sharing space Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. Fishermen's hostile representations emphasize competition for fish, harassment, fear, loss assets life. Their fear heightened entanglement social life, through its association with witchcraft. The emphasizes importance considering both hegemonic marginalized ideas animals light material interactions, relations power historical contexts shape them. Understanding attitudes circumstances who bear physical economic costs living dangerous important - it threatens future programmes reveals potential significant abuses accompany wildlife © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.