Civilizing Nature

National Parks in Global Historical Perspective
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-525-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

Reihe: Environment in History: International Perspectives

National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, this volume adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time. It focuses especially on the actors, networks, mechanisms, arenas, and institutions responsible for the global spread of the national park and the associated utilization and mobilization of asymmetrical relationships of power and knowledge, contributing to scholarly discussions of globalization and the emergence of global environmental institutions and governance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gissibl, Bernhard

Höhler, Sabine

Kupper, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Tables, Maps and Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Towards a Global History of National Parks

Bernhard Gissibl, Sabine Höhler, Patrick Kupper

PART I: PARKS AND EMPIRES

Chapter 1. Unpacking Yellowstone: The American National Park in Global Perspective

Karen Jones

Chapter 2. How National Were the First National Parks? Comparative Perspectives from the British Settler Societies

Melissa Harper and Richard White

Chapter 3. Imperial Preservation and Landscape Reclamation: National Parks and Natural Reserves in French Colonial Africa

Caroline Ford

Chapter 4. From Colonial Imposition to National Icon: Malaysia's Taman Negara National Park

Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells

Chapter 5. A Bavarian Serengeti: Space, race and time in the entangled history of nature conservation in East Africa and Germany

Bernhard Gissibl

PART II: ORGANIZATIONS AND NETWORKS

Chapter 6. Translating Yellowstone: Early European National Parks, Weltnaturschutz and the Swiss Model

Patrick Kupper

Chapter 7. Framing the Heritage of Mankind: National Parks on the International Agenda

Anna-Katharina Wöbse

Chapter 8. Global Values, Local Politics: Inuit Internationalism and the Establishment of Northern Yukon National Park

Brad Martin

Chapter 9. Demarcating Wilderness and Disciplining Wildlife: Radiotracking Large Carnivores in Yellowstone and ChitwanNational Parks

Etienne Benson



PART III: NATIONS AND NATURES

Chapter 10. A Revolutionary Civilization: National Parks, Transnational Exchanges, and the Construction of Modern Mexico

Emily Wakild

Chapter 11. Parks without Wilderness, Wilderness without Parks? Assigning National Park status to Dutch Man-made Landscapes and Colonial Game Reserves

Henny van der Windt

Chapter 12. Globalizing Nature: National Parks, Tiger Reserves, and Biosphere Reserves in Independent India

Michael Lewis

Chapter 13. Slovenia’s Triglav National Park: From Imperial Borderland to National Ethnoscape

Carolin Firouzeh Roeder

Epilogue: National Parks, Civilization and Globalization

Jane Carruthers

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Über Autor(innen)

Gissibl, Bernhard
Bernhard Gissibl is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz-Institute of European History in Mainz. His PhD dissertation explored the history of hunting and wildlife conservation in colonial Tanzania and is forthcoming with Berghahn under the title The Nature of German Imperialism. Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in colonial East Africa.

Höhler, Sabine
Sabine Höhler is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Her recent book on Spaceship Earth explores global concepts of environmental carrying capacity and life support between 1960 and 1990 (Pickering & Chatto 2015).

Kupper, Patrick
Patrick Kupper is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Innsbruck. He is the author of Creating Wilderness: a transnational history of the Swiss National Park (Berghahn 2014).

Sabine Höhler is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Her recent book on Spaceship Earth explores global concepts of environmental carrying capacity and life support between 1960 and 1990 (Pickering & Chatto 2015).