The Encroaching Forest: Struggles Over Land and Resources on the Boundary of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda

摘要: The expansion of outside, particularly state, control into rural areas through policies designed to protect and serve endangered wildlife has found increasing significance within studies on human–wildlife conflicts. This article expands the scope these investigations by forwarding a case study from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, in southwest Uganda, thriving protected area whose continued success necessitated its privately owned land. I argue that such encroachment represents new form control, namely, dispossession private property via conservation not only restrict farmers responding incidents crop raiding but also prevent local communities accessing their own