Living with(out) elephants. Environmental dynamics, colonial control and the birth of global conservationism (Congo-Uganda, ca. 1880-ca. 1962) Ghent University
This project is about environmental justice, and assumes that mass destruction of wild animals is correlated with social injustice. It addresses this issue by focusing on the birth and development of colonial conservationist policies of the African elephants which, it will be argued, were both socially disruptive and environmentally destructive. It focuses on two government organisations acting in neighbouring areas: the Elephant Taming ...