Nodes of resistance to green grabbing: a political ecology

Abstract

Green grabbing is the privatization or appropriation of land for purposes of advancing a "green" economy while excluding local, indigenous people from natural resources. This is a problem of global scale that has arisen mainly during a historical period when free market, neo-liberal policies have dominated the world economy. The academic literature on the subject rarely mentions resistance to green grabbing, nor are there many efforts to critically and systematically examine the social dynamics of this process. We consider both what works and what fails during the process of opposition, as well as the social psychology of risk taking among both green grabbers and opponents. The paper concludes with a way forward proffering the resistance.

Adopting a utilitarian approach to culling wild animals for conservation in National Parks

“…Globally, there are significant conflicts between local communities and conservation managers, particularly in the developing world (Soliku & Schraml, 2018). In most NPs, local people are not able to harvest wildlife and are prosecuted if they do so (Goldman, 2011;Weeber, 2016). One has to question the ethics where wildlife meat is sold to people in cities or abroad at high prices, when local people do not have ready access to meat.…”