Animal rights contradictions in the South African safari industry
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2018
Authors
Giustizieri, Afra
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Abstract
The role and rights of animals are a highly contested one in South Africa, as well as across
the entire world. In this report, however, I will be focusing on situations observed in South
Africa, in the Limpopo province, in Hoedspruit near the Kruger National Park. On the one
hand, we have the beauty of the bushveld and the animal life that represents this country.
Many people, mainly white middle-class people, living in South Africa and international
tourists corning into South Africa buy into the naturalized idea of the bushveld. With rhino
poaching and the canned lion hunting industry disrupting and threatening this sense of
idyllic beauty, these people (tourists and mainly white South Africans) have taken up arms
to stand by the rights of the wildlife that so handsomely represents our idea of the
untouched wilderness. (Abbreviation abstract)
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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Anthropology
Keywords
Animal rights--South Africa, Habitat--South Africa, Wildlife--South Africa