The Crumbling Fortress: Territory, Access, and Subjectivity Production in Waza National Park, Northern Cameroon

摘要: This paper explores the rise of a new era in biodiversity conservation, whereby older protected areas lose management and funding to point that they become open access spaces. Using Waza National Park as case study, shows while enclosure this area had serious detrimental effects for local natural resource users, it offered limited advantages those who were able negotiate “insider” status. I argue dissolution loss ability exclude “outsiders” or differential use area's resources created situation was even more harmful people's physical food security than initial enclosure. Taking historical view territory, subjectivity, around Waza, is benefit from various legal practical territorial components landscapes, when, how.