Article ID: CBB327867560

A World Laboratory: Framing the Albert National Park (July 2017)

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The Albert National Park in Belgian Congo was founded in 1925 on the initiative of a small but well-connected transnational network of naturalists, diplomats, and royals. Throughout the park’s existence, this network discursively framed it as a place of scientific research and international collaboration, thus linking it with values of universalism and inclusiveness. The rhetoric of the park as a “world laboratory” facilitated the access of a global network of biologists and legitimized scientific management schemes to protect its so-called primitive character. While opened up to international scholars, the park was also closed off from unwanted human and nonhuman actors including the local population, tourists, and invasive species. After Congo’s independence in 1960, the founding network lost its direct control over the country’s national parks. But in the new geopolitical situation, the old rhetoric of universalism and internationalism was also useful to preserve its continued influence on the management of Congolese nature.

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Authors & Contributors
Casado de Otaola, Santos
Bont, Raf de
Fan, Shih-fang
IEEE
Lekan, Thomas M.
Lowenthal, David
Journals
Arbor: Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Environment and History
Environmental History
Historical Records of Australian Science
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Publishers
Oxford University Press
CSIRO Publishing
IEEE
Ohio University Press
University of California Press
George F. Thompson Publishing
Concepts
National parks and reserves
Wildlife conservation
Environmental sciences
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
International cooperation
Conservation of natural resources
People
Grzimek, Bernhard
Muir, John
Pink, Olive Muriel
Hediger, Heini
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
21st century
Modern
Places
United States
Australia
Spain
India
Mexico
Soviet Union
Institutions
United States. National Park Service
Kruger National Park (South Africa)
Joshua Tree National Park
IIT Madras
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