I am excited to announce the publication of our new book chapter, “Reinforcing colonial inequalities? New forms of state-led and market-based conservation in Botswana and Namibia,” co-authored with Frowin Becker and Emmanuel Mogende. The chapter appears in the new Routledge volume Global Far-Right Ecologies: Trends, Issues and Responses.

Drawing on the examples of Botswana and Namibia, the chapter examines how both strongly state-led and market-based forms of conservation can reproduce colonial inequalities. We explore how wildlife protection and conservation-based development may reinforce unequal access to land and natural resources, marginalize local livelihoods, and legitimize exclusionary or coercive forms of environmental governance. In doing so, the chapter asks what these Southern African cases can contribute to wider debates on authoritarian and far-right ecologies.

The edited volume brings together perspectives from across the world on far-right and authoritarian responses to environmental crises, expanding a debate that has so far focused largely on Europe and North America. The chapter is now available online through Routledge!