BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news2334@dg.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250901T123333 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251128T161500 SUMMARY:Frank Matose: "Forests and the Power of Marginalised People in Sout hern Africa: Politics of Chronic Liminality" DESCRIPTION:Decades after independence and the end of apartheid\, why have forest communities in Zimbabwe and South Africa not been able to recover t he land and resource rights they lost under colonialism?  This lecture\, based on my recent book\, examines the politics of conservation in souther n Africa through the lens of chronic liminality\, a ‘state of in-between ness’ or ‘waiting’\, to explain the status quo in local people–sta te forest relationships and why progress has been so slow. Using the Dwesa -Cwebe Nature Reserve\, the Gwayi Forest and Mafungabusi Forest as cases s tudies\, it examines the consequences on people living in and around prote cted areas of neoliberal approaches to conservation and of the legacy of c olonial property relations. The book asks why local communities have not e ngaged in collective or rebellious action against the government and how t hey have instead found themselves in a liminal position\, caught between w aiting for conditions to change and advancing their rights through violent action. It also asks why states have likewise pursued a politics of limin ality and continue to prevaricate about whether to restore local rights or maintain the status quo around forest preserves. Overall\, the book advan ces scholarship around conservation in Africa and other postcolonial regio ns by providing a different perspective on the continued marginalisation o f local people and arguing for a need to rethink forest ownership\, manage ment and state relations.\\r\\nFrank Matose is an Associate Professor in t he Department of Sociology and a Co-Director of the Environmental Humaniti es South Centre at the University of Cape Town\, South Africa. His researc h interests are in environmental sociology with a particular focus on Sout hern Africa\, placing emphasis on the intersection of local people\, the s tate\, capital\, forest and resource conservation\, and the political econ omy of protected areas. Interests in these areas are informed by intellect ual projects around environmental governance\, social justice\, and common s in Africa. He is an active team member of the "Living Landcapes" Project .Matose is the author of the monograph titled Politics of Chronic Liminali ty: Forests and the power of the marginalised in Southern Africa (Universi ty of Arizone Press\, forthcoming) and the edited volume titled The violen ce of conservation in Africa: State\, militarisation and alternatives (wit h Maano Ramutsindela and Tafadzwa Mushonga\, Edward Elgar Publishing). X-ALT-DESC:

Decades after independence and the end of apartheid\, why hav e forest communities in Zimbabwe and South Africa not been able to recover the land and resource rights they lost under colonialism? \; This lec ture\, based on my recent book\, examines the politics of conservation in southern Africa through the lens of chronic liminality\, a ‘state of in- betweenness’ or ‘waiting’\, to explain the status quo in local peopl e–state forest relationships and why progress has been so slow. Using th e Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve\, the Gwayi Forest and Mafungabusi Forest as cases studies\, it examines the consequences on people living in and aroun d protected areas of neoliberal approaches to conservation and of the lega cy of colonial property relations. The book asks why local communities hav e not engaged in collective or rebellious action against the government an d how they have instead found themselves in a liminal position\, caught be tween waiting for conditions to change and advancing their rights through violent action. It also asks why states have likewise pursued a politics o f liminality and continue to prevaricate about whether to restore local ri ghts or maintain the status quo around forest preserves. Overall\, the boo k advances scholarship around conservation in Africa and other postcolonia l regions by providing a different perspective on the continued marginalis ation of local people and arguing for a need to rethink forest ownership\, management and state relations.

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Frank Matose is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Co-Director of the Environmental Humanities South Centre at the University of Cape Town\ , South Africa. His research interests are in environmental sociology with a particular focus on Southern Africa\, placing emphasis on the intersect ion of local people\, the state\, capital\, forest and resource conservati on\, and the political economy of protected areas. Interests in these area s are informed by intellectual projects around environmental governance\, social justice\, and commons in Africa. He is an active team member of the "Living Landcapes" Project.Matose is the author of th e monograph titled Politics of Chronic Liminality: Forests and the pow er of the marginalised in Southern Africa (University of Arizone Pres s\, forthcoming) and the edited volume titled The violence of conserva tion in Africa: State\, militarisation and alternatives (with Maano R amutsindela and Tafadzwa Mushonga\, Edward Elgar Publishing).

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