Tag: politics

The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope: Politics of Knowledge in Conservation Science and Anthropology 1990–2000 

September 25, 2025

In this blog to accompany her just-published article ‘The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope: Politics of Knowledge in Conservation Science and Anthropology 1990–2000’ in Environment and History Rithma Kreie Engelbreth Larsen interrogates the history of the ‘Ecological Indian’ trope and the surrounding debate, which highlights the broader question of the legitimacy of Indigenous … More The Contested History of the Ecological Indian Trope: Politics of Knowledge in Conservation Science and Anthropology 1990–2000 

INEQUALITIES IN THE LAND: COLONIAL LEGACIES AND THE QUEST FOR LAND EQUITY IN ZIMBABWE

May 22, 2024

In this blog, originally published as the ICEHO pages in Global Environment 17.1 (February 2024), Admire Mseba outlines attempts to address land inequalities in postcolonial Zimbabwe, arguing that such efforts often ‘essentially ignore longstanding forms of inequality, anchored in systems of power with deep roots in the precolonial past and reinforced by colonial policies’. In … More INEQUALITIES IN THE LAND: COLONIAL LEGACIES AND THE QUEST FOR LAND EQUITY IN ZIMBABWE