Selling the Serengeti : the Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism.

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Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and biggame- hunting companies. It looks at two major discourses and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gardner, Benjamin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Georgia Press, 2016.
©2016
Colección:Geographies of justice and social transformation.
Temas:
Community-based conservation > Tanzania > Serengeti Plain.
Ecotourism > Social aspects > Tanzania > Serengeti Plain.
Safaris > Social aspects > Tanzania > Serengeti Plain.
Culture and tourism > Tanzania > Serengeti Plain.
Land tenure > Tanzania > Serengeti Plain.
Land use > Tanzania > Serengeti Plain.
Neoliberalism > Social aspects > Tanzania.
Identity politics > Tanzania.
Maasai (African people) > Tanzania > Social conditions.
Maasai (African people) > Tanzania > Economic conditions.
Conservation communautaire des ressources naturelles > Tanzanie > Serengeti, Plaine du.
Écotourisme > Aspect social > Tanzanie > Serengeti, Plaine du.
Safaris > Aspect social > Tanzanie > Serengeti, Plaine du.
Ethnotourisme > Tanzanie > Serengeti, Plaine du.
Utilisation du sol > Tanzanie > Serengeti, Plaine du.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
Community-based conservation
Culture and tourism
Identity politics
Land tenure
Land use
Maasai (African people) > Economic conditions
Maasai (African people) > Social conditions
Tanzania
Tanzania > Serengeti Plain
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Sumario:Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and biggame- hunting companies. It looks at two major discourses and policies surrounding biodiversity conservation, the championing of community-based conservation and the neoliberal focus on private investment in tourism, and their profound effect on Maasai culture and livelihoods. This ethnographic study explores how these changing social and economic relationships and forces remake the terms through which state institutions and local people engage with foreign investors, communities, and their own territories. The book highlights how these new tourism arrangements change the shape and meaning of the nation-state and the village and in the process remake cultural belonging and citizenship. Benjamin Gardner's experiences in Tanzania began during a study abroad trip in 1991. His stay led to a relationship with the nation and the Maasai people in Loliondo lasting almost twenty years; it also marked the beginning of his analysis and ethnographic research into social movements, market-led conservation, and neoliberal development around the Serengeti.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (249 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780820348186
082034818X

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