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Political Corruption in Africa: Extraction and Power Preservation

while Chapter 10 signals how the founding of the park foreclosed processes through which some families were able to secure their livelihood and cast off their stigma of slave descent. This is a well-constructed book, and my criticisms are few. I wonder, however, how Beyond the Lens of Conservation might have differed had Keller included the perspectives of intermediary figures working in Madagascar National Parks, state officials, and administrators of conservation non-governmental organizations on the ground in Madagascar. Understanding how these individuals and groups made sense of and engaged strategically with the park amidst the island’s broader political context would round out this compelling portraiture of the myriad constituencies and juxtaposed imaginaries of the Masoala Partnership Project. Nonetheless, Beyond the Lens of Conservation ultimately reveals a compelling case in which the discursive and imaginary frames of different actors within a conservation project are so radically divergent that fruitful, dialogical engagements are unlikely, and where continual political asymmetries lead villagers to seek subversive strategies to manage their land dispossession. Well researched and lucidly written, Beyond the Lens of Conservation is a significant contribution to development and conservation studies in Africa and beyond.