Power and Forestry Governance in Colonial and Post-Colonial Tanzania

What is it about?

This article provides alternative theoretical approach for analyzing forestry governance in colonial and Post-colonial Tanzania. It argues that knowledge production is a means of control in shaping people's world views and practices in producing ethical norms for governing forests. However, this practice are shaped by colonial residue, in which past western fortress and economic rationalities continue to date. The identifies complexity of power executions through discourses, and material practices. Importantly, discusses historical temporalities of injustices and exclusions shaping current neoliberal conservation models.

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Why is it important?

The paper conceptualizes the importance of forestry knowledge production is configuring and dominating forest-dependent actors in access and use rights since the imposition of colonial western conservation models in Global and South, and Tanzania in particular.