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dc.contributor.authorVan Schuylenbergh, P.
dc.contributor.editorVerdier
dc.date2009
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-15T10:03:24Z
dc.date.available2016-03-15T10:03:24Z
dc.identifier.issn978-2-86432-582-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/447
dc.descriptionThe issue of poaching during Belgian colonization period (1885-1960) is envisaged according to a European vision and context. Therefore, any form of hunting that does not conform to European norms and ethics immediately and unequivocally falls into illegality without any historical or social consideration. Hunting laws are deeply entrenched in colonial land and natural resources management, including wildlife. Colonial governance and territories, when grading individual and collective hunting practice, and limiting the movements of natives soon imposed a new way of living and thinking. The indigenous populations were pulled out of areas selected for natural reserves. Throughout the colony, laws established hunting spaces, seasons and methods, and fined unlawful behaviors. Soon, the local Congolese population was seen as the destroyer of the well-governed environment under colonial power. Therefore should we consider indigenous illicit hunting as an act of resistance? Or was ignorance or open disobedience to the new European order a way to keep up with thousand years of usual indigenous activities? Unrealistic measures and lack of supervision gave the natives some leeway to get more food or better income as well as an increase of the trade induced by colonization itself.<I></I>
dc.languagefra
dc.titleEntre délinquance et résistance au Congo belge: l'interprétation coloniale du braconnage
dc.typeArticle
dc.subject.frascatiSociology
dc.audienceScientific
dc.subject.freeHistory & politics
dc.source.titleAfrique et Histoire. Revue internationale
dc.source.volume7; Dans les plis de la structuration coloniale : ombres et délinquances
dc.source.page25-48
Orfeo.peerreviewedYes
dc.identifier.rmca487


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