Explores the concept and expansion of the National Park from a global historical perspective, studying how a Western blueprint organised social and cultural relations to Nature into a multitude of ecological as well as political systems all over the world
Situates the idea of confining nature to a park between Western concepts, practices and topographies of nature preservation and their localisation and adaptation in different historical, political, social, and ecological settings around the world.
Focuses on the actors, networks, mechanisms and institutions responsible for the global transfer of National Parks and critically discusses the utilisation and mobilisation of assymetrical relationships of power and knowledge in different parts of the world.
Makes a benchmark contribution to the historiography of globalisation and the emergence of of both global environmental institutions and governance
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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