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03523aam a2200481 i 4500 001 DC180EBAAE9011EDA0B1416654ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230217010059 008 211006t20222022enkb b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1509550895 020 $a 9781509550890 020 $a 1509550887 020 $a 9781509550883 035 $a (OCoLC)1273471354 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d YDX $d YBM $d PAU $d CDX $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 043 $a f------ 050 4 $a GF13.3.A35 $b B5313 2022 082 04 $a 304.2096 $2 23/eng/20221127 100 1 $a Blanc, Guillaume, $d 1982- $e author. 240 10 $a Invention du colonialisme vert. $l English 245 14 $a The invention of green colonialism / $c Guillaume Blanc ; translated by Helen Morrison. 250 $a English edition. 264 1 $a Cambridge, UK : $b Polity, $c [2022] 300 $a xiv, 222 pages : $b maps ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "Originally published in French as L'invention du colonialisme vert. Pour en finir avec le mythe de l'eden africain. Preface de Francʹois-Xavier Fauvelle ââ Flammarion, Paris, 2020"--Title page verso. 500 $a Edition statement from page vii. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "The story begins with a dream -- the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization -- all of us carry such images in our heads, imagining Africa as a timeless Eden untouched by the ravages of modernity. But this Africa has never existed. The more we destroy nature here, the more we fantasize about it in Africa. Along with UNESCO, the WWF and other organizations, we convince ourselves that the African national parks are protecting the last vestiges of a world once untouched and wild. In reality, argues Guillaume Blanc, these organizations are responsible for naturalizing large tracts of the African continent, turning territories into parks and forcibly evicting thousands of people from the lands where they have lived for centuries. Making use of archives and oral histories, Blanc investigates this battle for a phantom Africa and the contradictory claims of nations who destroy nature at home while believing that they are protecting the natural world abroad. In so doing, they enact a new type of colonialism: green colonialism."-- $c Back cover. 546 $a Translated from the French. 505 00 $g 8. $t The Roots of Injustice (2009-2019). $g 2. $t Turning Africa into Parkland (1850-1960) -- $g 3. $t A Special Project for Africa (1960-1965) -- $g 4. $t The Expert and the Emperor (1965-1970) -- $g 5. $t Violence Below the Surface of Nature (1970-1978) -- $g 6. $t The Sustainable Development Trap (1978-1996) -- $g 7. $t The Fiction of the Community Approach (1996-2009) -- $g 8. $t The Roots of Injustice (2009-2019). 650 0 $a Human ecology $z Africa $x History. 651 0 $a Africa $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Nature $x History. $z Africa $x History. 650 0 $a National parks and reserves $z Africa $x History. 650 0 $a Ecotourism $z Africa $x History. 650 0 $a Postcolonialism $z Africa $x History. 650 0 $a Imperialism $x Environmental aspects $z Africa. 700 1 $a Morrison, Helen, $d 1954- $e translator. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781509550906 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031019.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DC180EBAAE9011EDA0B1416654ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search