Selling the Serengeti : the Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism.

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Gardner, Benjamin [Author]

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9780820348186

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DT443 .S455 2016

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Subject: 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.

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Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Safari Tourism, Pastoralism, and Land Rights in Tanzania; CHAPTER 2 Loliondo: Making a Modern Pastoral Landscape; CHAPTER 3 Community Conservation: The Globalization of Maasailand; CHAPTER 4 "The Lion Is in the Boma": Making Maasai Landscapes for Safari Trophy Hunting; CHAPTER 5 Nature Refuge: Reconstructed Identity and the Cultural Politics of Tourism Investment; CHAPTER 6 Joint Venture: Investors and Villagers as Allies against the State; CHAPTER 7 Conclusions: Neoliberal Land Rights?

Appendix. Major Wildlife and Land LegislationNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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