Land rights, biodiversity conservation and justice : rethinking parks and people / edited by Sharlene Mollett and Thembela Kepe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : land rights, biodiversity conservation and justice--rethinking parks and people / Sharlene Mollett and Thembela Kepe -- Part I. Justice. Meanings, alliances and the state in tensions over land rights and conservation in South Africa / Thembela Kepe -- Promise and limit of environmental justice through land restitution in protected areas in South Africa / Maano Ramutsindela and Medupi Shabangu -- Part II. Militarization, violence, and exclusion. Deploying difference : security threat narratives and state displacement from protected areas / Elizabeth Lunstrum and Megan Ybarra -- Green violence : market-driven conservation and the reforeignization of space in Laikipia, Kenya / Brock Bersaglio -- Elusive space : peasants and resource politics in the Colombian Caribbean / Diana Ojeda and María Camila González -- "When land becomes gold" : changing political ecology of the commons in a rural-urban frontier / Shubhra Gururani -- Part III. Indigenous territorial struggles. Indigeneity, alternative development and conservation : political ecology of forest and land control in Chittagong Hill tracts, Bangladesh / Khairul Chowdhury -- Wapichan Wiizi : conservation politics in the Rupununi (Guyana) / Katherine MacDonald -- Science as friend and foe : the "technologies of humility" in the changing relationship to science in community forest debates in Thailand / Vanessa Lamb and Robin Roth -- The Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve : a postcolonial feminist political ecological reading of violence and territorial struggles in Honduras / Sharlene Mollett.