The political ecology of conservation at a violent frontier constellation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo University of Antwerp
In this PhD thesis, I explore the implementation and effects of environmental conservation in eastern DRC’s South Kivu Province. I conceptualise conservation as an activity which takes place on a commodity frontier with links to global capitalist networks. In eastern DRC, the conservation commodity frontier forms part of a broader ‘constellation’ of commodity frontiers, including those concerning the extraction and trade of mineral resources. In ...