The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa

This book, edited by Maano Ramutsindela, Giorgio Miescher and Melanie Boehi, brings together recent and ongoing empirical studies to examine two relational kinds of politics, namely, the politics of nature, i.e. how nature conservation projects are sites on which power relations play out, and the politics of the scientific study of nature. These are discussed in their historical and present contexts, and at specific sites on which particular human-environment relations are forged or contested.