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Globalization, Science, and the Making of an Environmental Discourse on the Wild Coast, South Africa

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  • Thembela Kepe

    (Department of Geography, University of Toronto, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M1C 1A4 and Geography Department, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa)

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This paper uses the case of the proposed Pondoland National Park in South Africa, which is in the center of policy debates about biodiversity conservation, development, and resource rights in the Wild Coast area of South Africa. It explores whether the making of the case for the conservation of the Wild Coast, which relies on global environmental discourses, has ideologically and practically clarified local poor people's resource rights. It does this by tracing the genealogy of the Pondoland National Park discourse, which originates from scientific research and individual and group lobbying, to help explain the disjuncture between post-apartheid environmental policy discourses and what takes place in practice. The paper concludes that the reliance on global environmental discourses in research done in support for the Pondoland National Park complicates the role of the nation-state in terms of environmental governance, and that this can negatively affect the poor and powerless residents of the area in question.

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  • Thembela Kepe, 2014. "Globalization, Science, and the Making of an Environmental Discourse on the Wild Coast, South Africa," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 46(9), pages 2143-2159, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:46:y:2014:i:9:p:2143-2159
    DOI: 10.1068/a130135p
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