The violence of involuntary resettlement and emerging resistance in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park: The role of physical and social infrastructure

Nature conservation turns violent when it leads to enclosure, dispossession and militarisation, causing suffering among people living in the environment that is be protected. Resettlement projects are meant facilitate process of repossession for dispossessed as proponents promise improved housing physical infrastructure outside protected area. While scholarly attention has been paid violence dispossession, little known about ways which post-resettlement built displaced well remaining Drawing on field research water two resettlement villages Mozambique's Limpopo National Park (LNP), this paper analyses how entrenched material, ecological political framework shapes project. It pays particular by resettled citizens struggle with everyday sufferings their new order expose lack thereof led social infrastructure, have enabled park residents’ resistance against resettlement. The emerging indicates urgent need pay expanding area address pursue nature itself.