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"Ordering the Wild": How Adaptive Management Is Used to Maintain Nature Like a Postcard.
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Society & Natural Resources . May2024, Vol. 37 Issue 5, p791-808. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- In this paper we examine and critique adaptive management (AM) practices for protected areas (PAs), in pursuit of practices that can account for more-than-human relations. Engaging with empirical research from Australian PAs, we reflect on the formation of PAs as "exceptional places" where Nature is implicitly/explicitly to be controlled. We find that AM practices harness the spatial and temporal characteristics of the PAs to deliberatively construct a static and timeless scene, creating a particular vision of Nature. This metaphoric vision is captured "like a postcard." It reinforces and justifies static protectionism as Nature conservation, arraigning a series of material objects that are meant to assist with maintaining that image: that "reality." Using sentipensar as an exemplar, we explore and highlight relational and everchanging human-nonhuman engagements to contest the ontological dimensions of a static Nature and ideas of control and power associated with the binaries of Nature and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08941920
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Society & Natural Resources
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176985507
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2172241