Governance, participation and local perceptions towards protected areas: Unwinding traumatic nature in the Blouberg Mountain Range

Constant, Natasha 2017. Governance, participation and local perceptions towards protected areas: Unwinding traumatic nature in the Blouberg Mountain Range. Environmental Values 26 (5) , pp. 539-559. 10.3197/096327117X15002190708100

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Abstract

Local perceptions of protected areas are important for conservation and the sustainability of protected areas. We undertook qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork to explore relationships between people and protected areas in the Blouberg mountain range, South Africa. The history of land use and current relationships with protected areas reveal legacies of marginalisation and immiseration, giving credence to a theory of traumatic nature. The impacts of traumatic nature manifest themselves in local discourses and narratives of nature, protected areas and conservation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences Sustainable Places Research Institute (PLACES)
Publisher:	White Horse Press
ISSN:	0963-2719
Funders:	ESRC-NERC Interdisciplinary Studentship
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 July 2017
Date of Acceptance:	26 June 2016
Last Modified:	15 Nov 2023 15:27
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/102340

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