Description: With an extensive and rigorous analysis of conservation and environmental governance in Botswana, this book provides a new approach to understanding biodiversity conservation's political and state-building impacts in postcolonial Africa, challenging our understanding of conservation as only an ecological or an environmental endeavor.
Review Quotes: "With a smart research design and rich, original interviews, Annette A. LaRocco's book complicates the existing narrative of Botswanan exceptionalism as she compares the politics for how and why the state builds roads in two different wildlife areas. Her work deftly bridges multiple disciplines, including political science, history, indigenous studies, development studies, and environmental policy, to investigate important real-world problems of conservation and public service delivery in Africa." --Lauren M. MacLean, Indiana University Bloomington