Stasja Koot

 

Dr Stasja Koot

Dr Stasja Koot

Stasja Koot has been work­ing with indi­gen­ous groups in south­ern Africa, pre­dom­in­antly Nam­i­bia and South Africa, since the late 1990s, as a research­er of and a prac­ti­tion­er in com­munity-based tour­ism. His focus is polit­ic­al and eco­lo­gic­al; invest­ig­at­ing the power dynam­ics behind tour­ism, devel­op­ment, and nature conservation.

Dr Koot is Assist­ant Pro­fess­or at the Soci­ology of Devel­op­ment and Change group at Wagen­in­gen Uni­ver­sity, the Neth­er­lands, and a seni­or research fel­low with the Depart­ment of Geo­graphy, Envir­on­ment­al Man­age­ment & Energy Stud­ies, Uni­ver­sity of Johan­nes­burg, South Africa.

‘Jouissance’: The pleasure & pain of ‘ethical donor tourism’ in Africa

and January 18, 2022
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Zebra stripes at Dikhololo Game Reserve, Brits, South Africa. Photo by David Clarke (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/sN6d60TySV0

Some of the very wealthy among us love to live large in Africa’s mag­ni­fi­cent land­scape, to observe (and hunt) its icon­ic wild­life. While they are there it is good that they give gen­er­ously to eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, phil­an­throp­ic, and con­ser­va­tion pro­jects, no? Are we miss­ing some­thing? Aca­dem­ics Stasja Koot and Robert Fletch­er think so.  It’s a “Good […]

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