For most local people in Chiawa, Zambia, life is hard. Located in a Game Management Area just outside the Lower Zambezi National Park, they live with the constant threat of damage to crops, personal injury, or even death, from the crocodiles, elephants, hippos and buffalo who roam freely through the territory.
The field research on which this paper is based took place in two rounds of four months August-November, 2010 and 2012. A research officer led the fieldwork, working with a team of three local men and one nationally recruited Zambian researcher.