Review of African Political Economy 50 (177–178): 295–301. https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.1080/03056244.2023.2293419 (originally published as doi: 10.1080/03056244.2023.2293419)
An erroneous description of an article was published in the editorial of ROAPE Issue 177/178. On page 299, the editorial incorrectly represented the argument of Rocío Hiraldo and Steffen Böhm’s article, ‘Conservation, peasants and class: critical reflections on the political economy of climate change strategies in West Senegal’.
The erroneous passage has been replaced by the following description:
Drawing on a West Senegalese case study of nature-based tourism (NBT) and mangrove reforestation payment for ecosystems service projects (PES), Hiraldo and Böhm show how the development of imperial capitalist conservation is based upon class mechanisms further alienating African peasants from their labour: fortress conservation in tourism-oriented protected areas; (self-)exploitation of peasant labour in NBT and PES; avoidance and repression of subsequent class conflict.
The issue editors and authors of the editorial apologise to the authors for this error, which came at a period of considerable health pressures: four of the editors fell ill during the last phase of writing the editorial, at a time when the journal was changing its publisher.