Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Notes on Contributors xi
5. Acknowledgements xviii
6. PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1
7. 1. Introduction: Practices, Discourses, and Materialities surrounding the Commodification of the ‘Wild’ 1
8. PART 2 THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
9. 2. Fetishising the ‘Wild’: Conservation, commodities, and capitalism 29
10. 3. Value Chains and Global Production Networks: Conceptual considerations and economic development in the ‘wild’ 56
11. 4. Benefit Sharing and Biodiversity Commodification in Southern Africa: A failed approach for social justice, equity, and conservation? 79
12. 5. Transfrontier Conservation Governance, Commodification of Nature, and the New Dynamics of Sovereignty in Namibia 107
13. PART 3 PLANTS FROM THE WILDERNESS FOR A GLOBAL MARKET: THE COMMODIFICATION OF NON-DOMESTICATED (WILD) PLANTS
14. 6. Towards Pro-poor or Pro-profit? The governance framework for harvesting and trade of devil’s claw (Harpagophytum spp.) in the Zambezi Region, Namibia 135
15. 7. Marginalisation and Exclusion in Honeybush Commercialisation in South Africa 166
16. 8. From Forest to National Resource: Forest conservation and state power in Baringo, Kenya 195
17. 9. Commodifying East Africa’s Sandalwood: Organised crime and community participation in transnational smuggling of endangered species 223
18. 10. The Gum Arabic Business: Modernisation of production in north-eastern Nigeria 249
19. PART 4 COMMODIFYING WILDLIFE
20. 11. Producing Elephant Commodities for ‘Conservation Hunting’ in Namibian Communal-area Conservancies 275
21. 12. Human–Wildlife Interaction, Rural Conflict, and Wildlife Conservation 305
22. 13. Hunting for Development: Global production networks and the commodification of wildlife in Namibia 329
23. PART 5 COMMODIFICATION AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS
24. 14. Women in Rural Northern Namibia and the Commodification of Indigenous Natural Products 355
25. 15. Conservation, Traditional Authorities, and the Commodification of the ‘Wild’: A Namibian perspective 376
26. 16. Commodification of Wildlife Resources in the Okavango Delta, Botswana 403
27. 17. Justice Dilemmas in Conservation Conflicts in Uganda 431
28. PART 6 CONCLUSIONS
29. 18. Conclusions: Commodifying the ‘Wild’ – Where do we go from here? 461
30. Index 475