The production of nature in the postcolony: the Mau forest (Kenya)

Journal title RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA
Author/s Stefania Albertazzi, Valerio Bini
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/2 Language Italian
Pages 16 P. 21-36 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/rgioa2-2021oa12030
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Moving in the field of political ecology and adopting the theoretical perspective of the social production of nature, this contribution aims to illustrate how human and non-human elements co-evolve, determining each other, in the specific context of the postcolony. The case study of the Mau forest (Kenya) will be used to highlight the existence of four socio-ecologies that are based on the relationships with the forest andthat produce it, both symbolically and materially. The analysis of the “social nature” will lead to reflect on the complex temporalities of the postcolonial condition where the various socio-ecologies do not end within a limited historical period and continue to draw the intricate geographies of the region.

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Stefania Albertazzi, Valerio Bini, La produzione della natura nella postcolonia: la foresta Mau (Kenya) in "RIVISTA GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA" 2/2021, pp 21-36, DOI: 10.3280/rgioa2-2021oa12030