Michael Bollig, Shaping the African Savannah. From Capitalist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2020. ISBN 978–1–108–48,848–8 (Hardback). XIII + 404 pages, index.

And it is also true that Bollig is aware that Kaoko leaders, if faced with conservation goals that conflict with their own interests "... will not cling to the conservation paradigm but will opt for solutions that best further their ends." Michael Bollig, Shaping the African Savannah. But the possibility of diverging agendas between Traditional Authorities and conservation institutions does not necessarily imply a contradiction between ethnic mobilization and conservation initiatives, nor is the first always isolationist and the latter internationalist. [Extracted from the article]