A Local Counter-Narrative on the Conservation of Mountain Gorillas

• Published in: Forum for development studies Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 239 - 265
• Main Authors: Tumusiime, David Mwesigye, Svarstad, Hanne
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 01.11.2011
• Subjects: Africa; Conservation; Development studies; Discourse; Gorillas; mountain gorilla; narrative; Narratives; National parks; protected area; Uganda

Using social science narrative analysis, we studied how people who live next to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Bwindi INP) in Uganda narrate about their situation. We found a dominant ambivalence narrative, which deviates substantially from win-win and traditionalist narratives, both of which ha...