Settler Ecologies

""Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio offer a richly detailed and important retelling of the production of conservation landscapes in Kenya. Combining historic analysis with ethnography, they deftly weave the personal and political into a compelling account that disrupts popular narratives of quintessentially wild African landscapes. In its place Settler Ecologies exposes the ongoing acts of displacement, exclusion, replacement, and remaking involved in creating specific kinds of ecologies that support settler colonial roles in Africa and perpetuate colonial imaginaries of African landscapes.""--Mara Goldman, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder ""With conservation actors gearing up to expand biodiversity protection to cover 30 per cent of the planet, Settler Ecologies is a critical reminder that the socioecological relations produced by conservation's past are anything but innocuous. In this deeply researched and highly engaging book, Charis Enns and Brock Bersaglio trace and elucidate the changing, enduring, and highly unjust settler-colonial structures in Laikipia, Kenya, and argue that conservationists can and, importantly, must make radically different choices.""--Bram Büscher, Professor and Chair of Sociology of Development and Change, Wageningen University, and author of The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-truth Politics and Platform Capitalism