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THE INVENTION OF GREEN COLONIALISM - GUILLAUME ...

The story begins with a dream - the dream of Africa. Virgin forests  majestic mountains
surrounded by savannas  vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions 
elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature  far from civilization - all of us carry such
images in our heads  imagining Africa as a timeless Eden untouched by the ravages of modernity.
But this Africa has never existed. The more we destroy nature here  the more we fantasize about
it in Africa. Along with UNESCO  the WWF and other organizations  we convince ourselves that
the African national parks are protecting the last vestiges of a world once untouched and wild.
In reality  argues Guillaume Blanc  these organizations are responsible for naturalizing large
tracts of the African continent  turning territories into parks and forcibly evicting thousands
of people from the lands where they have lived for centuries. Making use of archives and oral
histories  Blanc investigates this battle for a phantom Africa and the contradictory claims of
nations who destroy nature at home while believing that they are protecting the natural world
abroad. In so doing  they enact a new type of colonialism: green colonialism.

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