Etosha Pan to Skeleton Coast: New Open Access Edited Volume

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☀️ A mega-🧵 with chapter links about #Etosha Pan to the #SkeletonCoast: #Conservation Histories, Policies & Practices in North-west #Namibia 🇳🇦 #OpenAccess, co-edited with Ute Dieckmann @UniCologne & Selma Lendelvo @unam_na @BathSpaUni @EtoshaKunene > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402

But first, thank you to our funders @ahrcpress and @dfg_public for supporting the "Etosha-Kunene Histories" project (etosha-kunene-histories.net); Namibia's research commission @NCRST_Namibia and @MinistryofEnvi2 for our research permits; & @OpenBookPublish for their amazing work >

This book includes 13 Namibian authors who lead 7 of the 21 chapters, plus a range of international researchers who have worked on #conservation issues in #Namibia. Here's our Table of Contents ⬇️ >

Our Intro chapter by the editors provides an overview of the book: "Etosha-Kunene Conservation Conversations: An introduction" openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.00

Part 1 includes 3 chapters by the editors on "Conservation Histories in Etosha-Kunene". We aim here to set the historical scene for the detailed case material forming the book’s remaining chapters >

Ch1: "Etosha-Kunene, from 'pre-colonial' to German colonial times", reviews how peoples of north-west #Namibia were affected by #colonialism, the dramatic events prior to 'Game Reserve No. 2' (1907), & the first 'game' legislation in the territory > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.01

Ch2 on "Spatial severance and nature conservation: #Apartheid histories in Etosha-Kunene", considers the many boundary changes associated with settler #colonialism, #conservation & 'homelands' in n-w Namibia, from 1920 to #Independence in 1990 > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.02

Ch3 focuses on "CBNRM [Community-Based Natural Resources Management] and landscape approaches to #conservation in Kunene Region, post-Independence". It explores how the post-1990 Namibian govt. worked to address past inequities, with varying successes > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.03

Part 2 on "Social Lives of #Conservation in Etosha-Kunene, Post-Independence" brings together detailed case-research on different socio-ecological situations, illuminating environmental governance complexities arising in the 3 decades since #Namibia gained #Independence >

Ch4 by Ute Dieckmann on "Haiǁom #resettlement, legal action and political #representation" analyses an #Indigenous #landclaim & resettlement case arising from historical displacement associated with the establishment of what is now #EtoshaNationalPark > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.04

Ch5 by Ruben Schneider shares PhD research on widely varying local perspectives on #CBNRM in selected Namibian #conservancies (pseudonymised): "Environmentalities of Namibian conservancies: How communal area residents govern #conservation in return" > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.05

Ch6 by Elsemi Olwage also arises from PhD research. "The politics of #authority, #belonging and #mobility in disputing land in southern Kaoko" explores how drought & historical circumstances evolved into a legal #conservancy-related land dispute > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.06

In Ch7 by D Menestrey Schwieger, M Bollig, E Olwage & M Schnegg, we shift focus onto #water & #borehole management in north-west #Namibia: "The emergence of a hybrid hydro-scape in northern #Kunene" > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.07

Ch8 by LZ Katjirua, MS David & J Muntifering of @SRTNamibia focuses on "Eliciting #empathy and connectedness toward different species in north-west #Namibia". It explores connections amongst young Namibians with oryx, black rhino 🦏, lion 🦁 & goats 🐐 > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.08

In Part 3 we turn to "Etosha-Kunene #Ecologies", with 3 chapters focusing on different ecological issues & concerns in north-west #Namibia ... >

Ch9 on "Giraffes 🦒 and their impact on key tree species in the #Etendeka Tourism Concession, north-west #Namibia" by K Maoveka, D Liebenberg & @SianSullivanUK, also looks at how to protect Maerua schinzii & Boscia albitrunca from browsing giraffe > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.09

Ch10 by ǂKîbagu Heinrich Kenneth |Uiseb @KennethHeinric5 of @MinistryofEnvi2 asks: "Are mountain and plains zebra 🦓 hybridising in north-west #Namibia?" – esp. in the 'Greater #Etosha Landscape'; & considers the #conservation implications if they are > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.10

Ch11 by M Wenborn, R Collinson, S Muzuma, D Kangombe, V Nijman & M Svensson focuses on "Communities and #elephants 🐘 in the northern highlands, Kunene Region, #Namibia": foregrounding the wealth of #conservancy ranger knowledge for ele #tourism & mgmt > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.11

In Part 4 on "Historicising #Conservation and #Community Territories in Etosha-Kunene" we return to the historical contexts shaping present circumstances in specific areas, from the #SkeletonCoast to #Tsintsabis #resettlement farm east of #EtoshaNationalPark.

Ch12 by @SianSullivanUK & WS Ganuses documents "Cultural heritage & histories of the Northern #Namib / Skeleton Coast National Park", reconstructing #livelihoods & #mobilities in the challenging but beautiful lands of the #SkeletonCoast. #oralhistory > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.12

Ch13 on "Historicising the #Palmwag Tourism Concession, north-west #Namibia" is by me @SianSullivanUK, & draws on #archive & #oralhistory research to explore competing & overlapping #colonial, #Indigenous and #conservation visions of this landscape > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.13

Ch14 on "Living next to #Etosha National Park: The case of Ehi-Rovipuka" by Art Hoole & @SianSullivanUK, reviews #ovaHerero histories in Etosha, experiences of living next to a park border, & local knowledge of wildlife & "field foods". #memorymapping > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.14

Ch15 by Ute Dieckmann on "‘Walking through places': Exploring the former lifeworld of Haiǁom in #Etosha" draws into focus the dense relational web of land, kinship, humans, animals, plants & spirit beings that once constituted Indigenous lives in Etosha > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.15

Ch16 by Stasja Koot & Moses ǁKhumûb closes part 4 by reviewing "History and social complexities for #San at #Tsintsabis #resettlement farm, #Namibia" > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.16

Part 5 picks up the "Etosha-Kunene Ecologies" theme in Part 3 by focusing in depth on "People, Lions 🦁 and #CBNRM" (Community-Based Natural Resources Management), through 3 chapters by authors involved with Namibia's #LionRangers Programme: see lionrangers.org/

In Ch17 John Heydinger focuses on "Integrating #remotesensing with #CBNRM for desert-adapted #lion conservation", to explain how #GPS & camera-trap data on lion 🦁 movements can contribute to community-oriented #conservation > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.17

Ch18 by Mathilde Brassine on "Lion Rangers’ use of SMART [Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool] for lion #conservation in #Kunene" reviews how software tools assist collection & analysis of patrol data to help manage human-lion 🦁 interactions > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.18

Ch19 by Uakendisa Muzuma explores "Relationships between humans and lions in wildlife corridors through #CBNRM in north-west #Namibia". By focusing especially on the lion 🦁 | goat 🐐 interface, this chapter connects deeply with farmer concerns > openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0402/chapters/10.11647/obp.0402.19