Forest Politics in Kenya's Tugen Hills: Conservation Beyond Natural Resources in the Katimok Forest

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Dr Léa Lacan

Forest Politics in Kenya's Tugen Hills

Conservation Beyond Natural Resources in the Katimok Forest

Dr Léa Lacan

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English

James Currey
02 July 2024

African history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Colonialism & imperialism; Political geography

Series: Future Rural Africa

Forests are a changing environment, impacted as much by people and politics as by the species-rich diversity they contain. This book explores human-sylvan relations in the Katimok forest, Baringo highlands, Kenya, and asks us to rethink the forest beyond questions of access and control of natural resources, as a habitat where forest politics and human lives are inextricably intertwined. Tracing the development of the Katimok forest from colonial times to the present day, the author shows how - as with many forests in Africa - it has become constructed as a category and territory of nature under state control: an area both to be protected and turned into exploitable resources. For those living within and on the boundaries of the forest, this social-ecological transformation has had a significant impact. Despite now being settled outside Katimok itself, dispossessed by administrators heedless of local management practices, many former residents continue to maintain a close connection with the forest, not only to sustain their livelihoods, but also to maintain their intimate links with ancestral lands, where their stories and memories are materially inscribed and powerfully invoked. Intimate connections to the forest are revealed to be as political as the use of its resources, culminating in local claims for redress of historical dispossessions.

By: Dr Léa Lacan
Imprint: James Currey
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 528g
ISBN: 9781847013811
ISBN 10: 1847013813
Series: Future Rural Africa
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 02 July 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

LÉA LACAN is a postdoctoral researcher in environmental anthropology at the University of Cologne, Germany and a member of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC). She currently works on the 'Rewilding the Anthropocene' project in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area in Southern/Central Africa.

Reviews for Forest Politics in Kenya's Tugen Hills: Conservation Beyond Natural Resources in the Katimok Forest

Forest Politics balances a wealth of ethnographic and historical detail with conceptual clarity and innovation, and an attention to the stakes for forest residents of the dynamic human-sylvan assemblage that exists in Kenya's Katimok Forest. The result is a moving portrait of a set of communities, their histories, and their entanglements with forests, reconstructed through careful and sophisticated interdisciplinary methods, that resonates with and informs global conversations about space, knowledge, history, power, and the methods required to inform our study of these intersecting phenomena. -- JEFF SCHAUER, Associate Professor of History * University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA *