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Whiteness in Zimbabwe
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Blinded by Sight: Divining the Future of Anthropology in Africa
TL;DR: Using the metaphor of the elephant and the three blind men, the authors discusses some elements of the scholarly debate on the postcolonial turn in academia, in and of Africa, and in anthropology in particular.
Payments for ecosystem services as neoliberal conservation: (Reinterpreting) evidence from the Maloti-Drakensberg, South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that PES and the process by which it was marketed are both inherent to "neoliberal conservation", the paradoxical idea that capitalist markets are the answer to their own ecological contradictions.
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Graves, ruins, and belonging: towards an anthropology of proximity*
TL;DR: This paper explored how the affective presence of graves and ruins, which materialize past and present occupations and engagements with/in the landscape (by different clans, colonial and post-colonial state institutions, war veterans, chiefs, and spirit mediums), are entangled in complex, localized contests over autochthony and belonging, even as they are finely implicated in wider reconfigurations of authority and statecraft.
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African Environmental Change from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene
TL;DR: In this paper, a review explores what past environmental change in Africa and African people's response to it can teach us about how to cope with life in the Anthropocene, focusing on key regions and debates, including desertification, rangeland degradation, megafauna loss, and land grabbing.
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Reassessing Fortress Conservation? New Media and the Politics of Distinction in Kruger National Park
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that new media such as online groups, webcams, and mobile phone apps encourage a new politics of social distinction in relation to the park and what it represents.