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Title:Stakeholders and stickholders: power and paradigms in a South African development context
Author:Bologna, Sarah A.
Year:2008
Periodical:Anthropology Southern Africa
Volume:31
Issue:3-4
Pages:123-130
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:community development
community participation
nature conservation
national parks and reserves
power
Abstract:The alluring vision that ecotourism can drive both rural development and ecological objectives has taken deep root in postapartheid South Africa where severe economic inequalities persist as a result of dispossession and restricted access to resources during the colonial and apartheid years. However, anthropological fieldwork in and around Madikwe Game Reserve in the North West Province has revealed a less appealing story, one of marginalization and exclusion of local residents. This was despite the rhetoric of the Reserve's managing agency which claimed that Madikwe was run on 'people-based conservation' principles. The discrepancy between rhetoric and practice revealed and emphasized a power imbalance within Madikwe's development initiative and highlighted how, regardless of extreme shifts in approach to development, there was a persistent reliance on paradigmatic models that were unable to accommodate the complexities of local lived realities. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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