Turbulent times: fighting history today in Tanzania's trophy hunting spaces

This paper discusses the turbulent times facing trophy hunting in Tanzania, East Africa. It reviews the industry's contentious history, and illustrates the ominous politics that are emerging out of the country's recent neoliberal schemes, Wildlife Management Areas. Through the decentralisation that comprises WMAs, the rural communities who co-inhabit trophy hunting spaces are finding new ways to limit, resist, and sometimes, eliminate it. As argued in this paper, trophy hunting in Tanzania faces a momentous convergence of aggrieved histories, and neoliberal reforms that shift authority to rural communities. It amounts to turbulent times and what I call, fighting history today.