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Parks and Peoples: The Social Impact of Protected Areas 2006 2026 2012 2019 993
  1. Parks and Peoples: The Social Impact of Protected Areas (2006)
    Paige West, James Igoe et al. Annual Review of Anthropology

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Works of James Igoe being referenced

Ethnicity, civil society, and the Tanzanian pastoral NGO movement : the continuities and discontinuities of liberalized development
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Eviction for Conservation: A Global Overview
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Lessons to be learned about migration around protected areas
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Gramsci, Culture, and Anthropology
2004
Rereading conservation critique: a response to Redford
2011
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