Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of authors -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- CONSERVATION AND DECOLONIZATION -- ORIGINS OF THIS BOOK -- EMPIRE AND NATURE -- DECOLONIZATION AND CONSERVATION -- THE BOOK -- A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: Nature and the colonial mind -- INTRODUCTION -- WHOSE COLONIAL MIND? -- COLONIALISM'S IMPACT ON NATURE -- COLONIALISM, RATIONALITY AND NATURE -- NAMING AND CLASSIFYING NATURE -- NATURE, ECOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT -- COLONIAL ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE DEGRADATION OF NATURE -- WILDERNESS IN THE COLONIAL MIND -- HUNTING NATURE -- POLICING NATURE'S LIMITS -- COLONIALISM'S LEGACY FOR CONSERVATION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: Decolonizing relationships with nature -- COLONIZATION, EUROCENTRISM AND ANTHROPOCENTRISM -- DUALISM: EXAGGERATING DIFFERENCES -- DENYING COMMONALITY -- COUNTERING CENTRIC STRUCTURE -- DISABLING LAND RELATIONSHIPS: AN EMPTY, SILENT LAND -- THE COLONIZING POLITICS OF PLACE NAMES: RENAMING AS DECOLONIZATION -- ASSIMILATION, COLONIAL NOSTALGIA AND FERAL NAMES -- DECOLONIZING THE NAMING RELATIONSHIP -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: The 'wild', the market and the native: Indigenous people face new forms of global colonization -- INTRODUCTION -- IMPACT OF THE GLOBAL MARKET ON THE INDIGENOUS WORLD -- THE ROLE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION -- ARGUMENTS ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY AND INDIGENOUS USE OF WILDLIFE -- RECONCEPTUALIZING INDIGENOUS RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE NATURAL WORLD -- INDIGENOUS RESPONSES TO THE PRESSURES OF DEVELOPMENT -- RECOGNIZING TRADITIONAL RESOURCE RIGHTS AND SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: Sharing South African National Parks: Community land and conservation in a democratic South Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- LAND DISPOSSESSION -- LAND REFORM.

LAND CLAIMS IN NATIONAL PARKS -- SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO CASE STUDIES -- CONTRACT NATIONAL PARKS OR JOINT MANAGEMENT? -- TRANS-FRONTIER CONSERVATION AREAS -- KEY ACTORS IN TRANS-FRONTIER CONSERVATION AREAS -- POLITICS, COMMUNAL LAND AND NATIONAL PARKS -- THE POTENTIAL FOR COOPERATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6: Devolving the expropriation of nature: The 'devolution' of wildlife management in southern Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- THE COLONIAL STATE, LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES -- THE POST-COLONIAL STATE AND LAND TENURE -- LAND REFORM AND CBNRM -- CAMPFIRE AND RESOURCE-MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONS -- CAMPFIRE AND DEVOLUTION -- CAMPFIRE AND THE SAFARI BUSINESS -- CAMPFIRE AND POVERTY -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7: Decolonizing Highland conservation -- INTRODUCTION -- IMAGINING THE HIGHLANDS -- REFORMING THE LAND -- CONSERVATION, THE ESTATES AND CROFTING -- CROFTERS AND CONSERVATIONISTS -- CONSERVATION'S COLONIAL INHERITANCE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8: Responding to place in a post-colonial era: An Australian perspective -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CONTEXT: AUSTRALIA IN THE CENTENARY OF FEDERATION -- THE DEBATE OVER PLACE AND BELONGING -- TEACHING SENSE OF PLACE IN A UNIVERSITY SETTING -- PLACE, INDIGENEITY AND ENVIRONMENTALISM -- CONCLUSIONS: LEARNING RESPONSIVENESS TO PLACE -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9: The changing face of nature conservation: Reflections on the Australian experience -- INTRODUCTION -- NEW DRIVERS -- NEW MODELS -- NEW MECHANISMS -- A BRAND NEW DAY? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10: When nature won't stay still: Conservation, equilibrium and control -- FIELD WORK -- THE BALANCE OF NATURE -- THE ECOLOGY OF EQUILIBRIUM -- CONSERVATION AND EQUILIBRIUM -- ECOLOGY, CONSERVATION AND DISEQUILIBRIUM -- EQUILIBRIUM IN THE DRYLANDS.

DISEQUILIBRIUM AND DRYLAND ENVIRONMENTS -- NATURALNESS AND THE CONTROL OF NATURE -- RESTORING NATURE -- RESTORATION AND THE CONTROL OF NATURE -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11: Beyond preservation: the challenge of ecological restoration -- INTRODUCTION -- NEW THINKING ABOUT CONSERVATION -- THE FENS OF EAST ANGLIA -- WICKEN FEN: CONSERVATION THROUGH RESTORATION -- PUBLIC BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT -- CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12: Feet to the ground in storied landscapes: Disrupting the colonial legacy with a poetic politics -- WHITEFELLA FOLLY -- FEET TO THE GROUND -- THE VIEW FROM THE EDGE -- EMPATHETIC ENGAGEMENT -- ON DWELLING, TRAVELLING AND NAMING -- POETICS AND POLITICS -- STORY-MAKING AND STORY-TELLING -- DISRUPTING THE IMPOSITION OF REGULARITY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13: Conclusions -- SOME NEW STRATEGIES -- DIFFICULT LEGACIES -- SOME GROUNDS FOR HOPE -- CRITICAL CHALLENGES -- ETHICAL ENGAGEMENT -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Index.