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Author Gardner, Benjamin.

Title Selling the Serengeti : the Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism.

Publication Info. [Place of publication not identified] : University of Georgia Press, 2016.
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages).
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Series Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
Geographies of justice and social transformation.
Contents 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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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Language English.
Subject Community-based conservation -- Tanzania -- Serengeti Plain.
Community-based conservation.
Tanzania -- Serengeti Plain.
Ecotourism -- Social aspects -- Tanzania -- Serengeti Plain.
Ecotourism.
Social aspects.
Tanzania.
Safaris -- Social aspects -- Tanzania -- Serengeti Plain.
Safaris.
Culture and tourism -- Tanzania -- Serengeti Plain.
Culture and tourism.
Land tenure -- Tanzania -- Serengeti Plain.
Land tenure.
Land use -- Tanzania -- Serengeti Plain.
Land use.
Neoliberalism -- Social aspects -- Tanzania.
Neoliberalism.
Identity politics -- Tanzania.
Identity politics.
Maasai (African people) -- Tanzania -- Social conditions.
Maasai (African people)
Social conditions.
Maasai (African people) -- Tanzania -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gardner, Benjamin. Selling the Serengeti : The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism. : University of Georgia Press, ©2016 9780820345079
ISBN 9780820348186
082034818X
0820345075
0820345083
9780820345079
9780820345086