Designed for accumulation by dispossession: an analysis of Tanzania's wildlife management areas through the case of Burunge

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dc.contributor.authorKicheleri, Rose P
dc.contributor.authorMangewa, Lazaro J
dc.contributor.authorTreue, Thorsten
dc.contributor.authorNielsen, Martin R
dc.contributor.authorKajembe, George C
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-07T06:52:25Z
dc.date.available2022-05-07T06:52:25Z
dc.date.issued2020-12
dc.description.abstractUnfortunately, adverse rather than positive local welfare outcomes of community-based conservation initiatives are quite common. Through the case of Burunge Wildlife Management Area (WMA) this study documents how WMAs in Tanzania appear designed to facilitate accumulation by disposses- sion in the name of decentralized wildlife management. Based on focus group discussions, interviews, and policy-document analyses, we show that the pro- cess of establishing the WMA was fraught with hidden agendas and lacked legitimacy as well as transparency. Villagers and their local governments were also oblivious to the fact that the village land they contributed to forming the WMA would no longer be under village control even if they withdrew from the WMA. Decentralized revenue streams were gradually recentralized, and when the High Court ruled in favor of a Village Government that did not want to be part of the WMA, higher levels of government scared it to stay and to drop its legal as well as economic claims. We conclude that by mechanisms of rule-through-law WMAs deliberately dispossess village communities by atten- uating the authority of democratically elected village governments. Hence, the wildlife policy needs urgent revision to democratize and thus promote positive livelihood outcomes of the WMA concept.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/4070
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherwileyen_US
dc.subjectCommunity wildlife managementen_US
dc.subjectDemocratic decentralizationen_US
dc.subjectDispossessionen_US
dc.subjectLegitimacyen_US
dc.subjectRule- through-lawen_US
dc.subjectTransparencyen_US
dc.titleDesigned for accumulation by dispossession: an analysis of Tanzania's wildlife management areas through the case of Burungeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.360en_US

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