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Anthropology Brown Bag Series Friday, October 22, 2010 Noon to 1PM Room 106C McDonnell Hall Presentation Title: The Political Ecology of Conservation, Conservancies and Private Land in Namibia Presenter: Ryan T. Klataske, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology & Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Program, Michigan State University The relationships between private land, conservation and the environment have important implications for both ecological sustainability and rural livelihoods in and beyond Southern Africa. Building on 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this research examines collaborative and cooperative land use and conservation in Namibia known as private, commercial, or freehold conservancies. These are locally planned and collectively managed areas of private land in which landholders intend to pool their resources for purposes of collective wildlife management and utilization, environmental conservation and tourism—often with expectations of increased rights and control over wildlife and resource management. In addition to highlighting some of the experiences and perspectives of conservancy members and leaders, this discussion addresses some of the relationships between the variety of groups and individuals (i.e. ranchers, NGOs, farm workers, tourists) and environmental actors (i.e. cheetahs, invasive woody plants, cattle) that contribute to contestations over landscape, ecology and conservation in conservancies and throughout rural Namibia. Furthermore, this research relates conservancies to broader contexts, complexities and debates, including issues of land reform, inequality and the distribution of land, as well as the privatization of wildlife and approaches to conservation.