April 2, 2024
We’re excited to announce that Vinay R. Kamat’s In a Wounded Land: Conservation, Extraction, and Human Well-Being in Coastal Tanzania has just been published and is simultaneously available on Open Arizona! Open Arizona is a portal of open-access titles from the University of Arizona Press. We are adding new content to the site monthly. Please check back frequently to see our latest offerings!
About the book:
Focusing on the human element of marine conservation and the extractive industry in Tanzania, this volume illuminates what happens when impoverished people living in underdeveloped regions of Africa are suddenly subjected to state-directed conservation and natural resource extraction projects. Drawing on ethnographically rich case studies and vignettes, the book documents the impacts of these projects on local populations and their responses to these projects over a ten-year period.