Forest Politics in Kenya’s Tugen Hills: Conservation Beyond Natural Resources in the Katimok Forest eBook

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Forests are a changing environment, impacted as much by people and politics as by the species-rich diversity they contain. This book explores human-sylvan relations in the Katimok forest, Baringo highlands, Kenya, and asks us to rethink the forest beyond questions of access and control of natural resources, as a habitat where forest politics and human lives are inextricably intertwined.

Tracing the development of the Katimok forest from colonial times to the present day, the author shows how – as with many forests in Africa – it has become constructed as a category and territory of nature under state control: an area both to be protected and turned into exploitable resources. For those living within and on the boundaries of the forest, this social-ecological transformation has had a significant impact. Despite now being settled outside Katimok itself, dispossessed by administrators heedless of local management practices, many former residents continue to maintain a close connection with the forest, not only to sustain their livelihoods, but also to maintain their intimate links with ancestral lands, where their stories and memories are materially inscribed and powerfully invoked. Intimate connections to the forest are revealed to be as political as the use of its resources, culminating in local claims for redress of historical dispossessions.

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Forest Politics in Kenya’s Tugen Hills: Conservation Beyond Natural Resources in the Katimok Forest is written by Léa Lacan and published by James Currey. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Forest Politics in Kenya’s Tugen Hills are 9781805433477, 1805433474 and the print ISBNs are 9781847014085, 1847014089. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781847013811, 9781805433460.