Study on Environmentality of Animal Welfare/Right in Wildlife Conservation in Africa

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26885026
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: Meguro Toshio 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 研究員 (90735656)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 環境統治性 / 野生動物保全 / アフリカ / ケニア / マサイ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Today, wildlife conservation is conducted under the influence of neoliberal power, that is neoliberal environmentality, in Africa. This study takes up the Maasai community in Amboseli area in Southern Kenya, which is globally known as a "wild kingdom." The result is that, on one side, it is examined how the ethics and practice of animal welfare/right direct the course of "community-based" wildlife conservation today and governed local people, and on the other hand, it is demonstrated that local people are not fully governed and show their own agency.

Free Research Field

環境社会学、アフリカ地域研究