Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

A Highly Regarded Academic And Former Policy Analyst And Consultant Charts The Forty-year History Of Neoliberalism, Environmental Governance, And Resource Rights In Madagascar Since The 1970s, The U.s. Agency For International Development Has Spent Millions Of Dollars To Preserve Madagascar's Rich Biological Diversity. Yet The Island Nation's Habitats Are Still In Decline. In This Important Ethnographic Study, Catherine Corson Illustrates How The Effort To Attract High-level Political Attention To Conservation By Isolating The Environment In National Parks And Blaming Impoverished Malagasy Farmers Has Avoided Challenging Key Drivers Of Madagascar's Deforestation. Connecting Corridors -- The History Of Forest Politics In Madagascar -- Setting The Biodiversity Conservation Stage -- Tracing The Roots Of Neoliberal Conservation -- A Model For Greening Development -- Creating The Transnational Conservation Enterprise -- Accountability And Authority In Conservation Politics -- Transforming Relations Of Power In Conservation Governance. Catherine A. Corson. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 251-293) And Index. A highly regarded academic and former policy analyst and consultant charts the forty-year history of neoliberalism, environmental governance, and resource rights in Madagascar

Since the 1970s, the U.S. Agency for International Development has spent millions of dollars to preserve Madagascar’s rich biological diversity. Yet its habitats are still in decline. Studying forty years of policy making in multiple sites, Catherine Corson reveals how blaming impoverished Malagasy farmers for Madagascar’s environmental decline has avoided challenging other drivers of deforestation, such as the logging and mining industries. In this important ethnographic study, Corson reveals how Madagascar’s environmental program reflects the transformation of global environmental governance under neoliberalism. Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Connecting Corridors -- 2. The History of Forest Politics in Madagascar -- 3. Setting the Biodiversity Conservation Stage -- 4. Tracing the Roots of Neoliberal Conservation -- 5. A Model for Greening Development -- 6. Creating the Transnational Conservation Enterprise -- 7. Accountability and Authority in Conservation Politics -- 8. Transforming Relations of Power in Conservation Governance -- Appendix: List of Interviewees -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z