{"product_id":"forests-and-the-power-of-frank-matose-9781847014313","title":"Forests and the Power of Marginalised People in Southern Africa: Politics of Chronic Liminality","description":"\u003cb\u003eDecades after independence and the end of apartheid, why have forest communities in Zimbabwe and South Africa not been able to recover the land and resource rights they lost under colonialism?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book explores the politics of conservation in southern Africa through the lens of chronic liminality, a 'state of in-betweenness' or 'waiting', to explain the status quo in local people-state forest relationships and why progress has been so slow. Using the Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve, the Gwayi Forest and Mafungabusi Forest as cases studies, it examines the consequences on people living in and around protected areas of neoliberal approaches to conservation and of the legacy of colonial property relations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book asks why local communities have not engaged in collective or rebellious action against the government and how they have instead found themselves in a liminal position, caught between waiting for conditions to change and advancing their rights through violent action. It also asks why states have likewise pursued a politics of liminality and continue to prevaricate about whether to restore local rights or maintain the status quo around forest preserves. Overall, the book advances scholarship around conservation in Africa and other postcolonial regions by providing a different perspective on the continued marginalisation of local people and arguing for a need to rethink forest ownership and management.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Matose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1847014313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781847014313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e James Currey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Frank Matose","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47039740444927,"sku":"9781847014313","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4d4ef933-9012-4787-8f0a-ea2411fc16f0.jpg?v=1752752421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/forests-and-the-power-of-frank-matose-9781847014313","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}