EAN: 9783868218343

NATIONAL PARKS FROM NORTH TO SOUTH - OLAF KALTM...

The establishment of national parks in Argentina - the first ones in Latin America - takes
place in a transnational space of entanglements where ideas  imaginaries  people  biota and
artefacts circulate. Park concepts in Argentina are influenced by a wide range of different
approaches from U.S.-American Park politics through French landscape architecture and Prussian
sustainable forestry to international debates on nature conservation. While national parks are
today regarded as hoards of wilderness  contemporary interpretation in the first half of the
20th century is quite more open. In Argentina  a position has prevailed that sees national
parks as real instruments of colonization. Agricultural colonization and the expulsion of
indigenous peoples  broad programs of urbanization and touristification of landscape as well as
the massive processes of biological colonization by salmon  roe deer and Douglas fir are
integral elements of Argentine Park politics. Especially in the emblematic National Parks of
Nahuel Huapi and Iguazú. In this context between conservation and colonization  the book
explores the following question: How do National Parks operate?

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