Article Title
The Red-Haired Chimpanzee: Integrated Conservation and Development, Engagement, and (Mis)understandings in Hoima District, western Uganda
Abstract
Drawing on research completed in seven villages in Hoima District, western Uganda, in 2013, this paper explores the social complexities inherent to integrated conservation and development projects orchestrated by transnational ENGOs in developing countries. I frame this exploration through a discussion of a story from my fieldwork - the sighting of a "red-haired" chimpanzee - and use it as a metaphor to encompass the ways in which groups of people involved in such conservation and development work think about, act towards, and "other" one another. Moreover, this paper explores the role that anthropologists can assume in articulating the implications of, and mediating, these complicated misunderstandings.
Recommended Citation
Slowka, Steven
(2014)
"The Red-Haired Chimpanzee: Integrated Conservation and Development, Engagement, and (Mis)understandings in Hoima District, western Uganda,"
Totem: The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology: Vol. 22:
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1, Article 2.
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https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/totem/vol22/iss1/2