Maano Ramutsindela

Maano Ramutsindela is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cape Town and UP-UCT Future Africa Research Chair in Sustainability Transformations. His work focuses on socioecological relations and the political ecology of peace parks. Author of Transfrontier Conservation in Africa and co-editor of The Violence of Conservation in Africa (2022), he has held visiting positions at Harvard, Geneva, and Macalester College.

Dr. Jevgeniy Bluwstein, a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Bern, examines how the reductive Western view of landscapes reinforces colonization through exclusionary conservation practices, focusing on a case study of Tarangire National Park in Tanzania. Introducing the term “landscapism,” meaning the “double movement of colonizing landscapes/landscaping colonies,” Bluwstein offers a critical perspective, advocating for viewing landscapes through a lens of relationality.

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