ABSTRACT
Mapesa's article was intended to bolster public support for the country's forest and wildlife conservation agencies in the aftermath of a controversial eviction of refugee Basongora pastoralists from Queen Elizabeth National Park. Moreover, an equally pressing question today seems to be whether rural Ugandan citizens can 'pay their own way', or contribute sufficiently to national economic growth in order to avoid being displaced by either conservation or, similarly, more profitable forms of land and resource utilization. In this sense, the contemporary geographies of conservation in Uganda – much like the geographies of 'development' more broadly – are increasingly both uneven and dynamic, and it is both this unevenness and this dynamism. Contemporary development policy also simultaneously promotes the growth of ecologically deleterious forms of extractive industry in Uganda and the rise of large-scale commercial agribusiness. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
