- Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Harry Wels
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty Member
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Sociology and Expatriate
Saving the world's flora and fauna, especially high-profile examples such as chimpanzees, whales and the tropical rain forests, is big business. Individuals and companies channel their resources to the preservation of nature through... more
Saving the world's flora and fauna, especially high-profile examples such as chimpanzees, whales and the tropical rain forests, is big business. Individuals and companies channel their resources to the preservation of nature through various ways, one of which is the funding of environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and community-based organizations (CBOs). This book is the first to comprehensively address this issue and focus on a dominant theme in environmental philanthropy, the links between ENGOs and CBOs and their sponsors, especially the private sector. It has been argued that donor support is based on recipient's perceived expertise and needs, with no favouritism of flagship environmental organizations as recipients of donor funds. A counterview holds that the private sector prefers to fund mainstream ENGOs for environmental research and policy reforms congenial to industrial capital. The authors show that the debate about these arguments, together with the empirical evidence on which they are based, may shed light on certain aspects of the nature of environmental philanthropy. The book evaluates practical examples of environmental philanthropy from Africa and elsewhere against philosophical questions about the material and geographical expressions of philanthropy, and the North-South connections among philanthropists and ENGOs and CBOs.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
... In the economics-driven field of organization and management, these latter considerations in particular have given rise to a lot of publications on and an increased popularity of the concept of 'management of diversity... more
... In the economics-driven field of organization and management, these latter considerations in particular have given rise to a lot of publications on and an increased popularity of the concept of 'management of diversity (Thomas and Elly, 1996; Chemers, Oskamp and Costanzo ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Sociology and Ethnography
Research Interests: Business and Agriculture
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: History and Colonialism
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
... Title About romance and reality - popular European imagery in postcolonial tourism in southern Africa. Authors Wels, H. Editors Hall, CM;Tucker, H. Book Tourism andpostcolonialism: contested discourses, identities and representations... more
... Title About romance and reality - popular European imagery in postcolonial tourism in southern Africa. Authors Wels, H. Editors Hall, CM;Tucker, H. Book Tourism andpostcolonialism: contested discourses, identities and representations 2004 pp. ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Introduction: Charles is a landowner in an area of KwaZulu-Natal province known locally as the Midlands. Over the past decades he has built up a profitable business as a cattle breeder. Now however, there is pressure for him to... more
Introduction: Charles is a landowner in an area of KwaZulu-Natal province known locally as the Midlands. Over the past decades he has built up a profitable business as a cattle breeder. Now however, there is pressure for him to participate in a land-use change fuelled by the tourism industry: the conversion of some sixteen privately owned farms in the area into an upmarket wildlife-based lifestyle development called the Gongolo Wildlife Reserve (GWR). Charles's farm is located inside the area that would constitute the proposed GWR, so he finds himself in a difficult position as the only 'hold-out' against the move to a tourism-oriented wildlife-based future. Charles has reluctantly agreed to participate in the venture, but worries about the future of the people who currently live and work on his land. Resulting from a complex agrarian history in which African families have lived, worked and kept cattle on white-owned farms in the region for generations, Charles has a tot...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
This chapter discusses the possibilities for communities in and close to the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park to benefit from tourism development.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Art and Zuid-Afrika
Past and present white, mostly European-descended, employees of national parks in Africa, game wardens and management alike, usually do not hold back in their praise for the ‘colonial aesthetic’ (Gikandi 1996: 167) of the landscape... more
Past and present white, mostly European-descended, employees of national parks in Africa, game wardens and management alike, usually do not hold back in their praise for the ‘colonial aesthetic’ (Gikandi 1996: 167) of the landscape (including wildlife) they are working in (see, for some examples, Pitman 1942; Davison 1967; Kinloch 1972; Hey 1995). This also holds true for the string of employees of European descent working in the Sabi and Singwetsi Game Reserves that were amalgamated in 1926 into the Kruger National Park (knp) in South Africa. Songs of praise and narratives in a memoirs format of game rangers and managers are widely found, starting in South Africa with the famous book of the first warden of knp, James Stevenson-Hamilton (1993 [1937]). His book’s title, a ‘South African Eden’ (italics added), already refers to an ‘iconography of landscape’ (Cosgrove & Daniels 1988). The first sentences of the opening chapter start with the following landscape description: