TY - JOUR AB - I suggest that to decolonize conservation we must also decolonize our way of seeing land and nature-society relations inscribed in it as landscapes. I proceed in three parts. First, drawing on insights from post- and decolonial studies, critical geography, environmental history and political ecology, I highlight three problems that underpin a landscape way of seeing nature-society relations: depoliticization, simplification/decomplexification, and representation. Second,to illustrate the colonial legacy of the contemporary landscape approach to nature conservation, I revisit the global history of landscapism – the double movement of <i>colonizing landscapes/landscaping colonies. </i>This double movement began with the internal colonization of European landscapes (autonomous political communities), and continued through the landscaping of (settler-)colonies by Europeans outside of their homelands. Third, through the contemporary case of a landscape conservation initiative in Tanzania (the so-called "Tarangire-Manyara Ecosystem"), I illustrate the implications of the double movement in the colonial present of African conservation. I conclude with a few remarks on what decolonization of conservation would have to entail in scientific research and practice. AU - Jevgeniy Bluwstein DA - 2021/7// DO - 10.2458/jpe.2850 IS - 1 VL - 28 PB - University of Arizona Libraries PY - 2021 TI - Colonizing landscapes/landscaping colonies: from a global history of landscapism to the contemporary landscape approach in nature conservation T2 - Journal of Political Ecology UR - http://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/2850/ ER -