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Seeing (and Doing) Conservation Through Cultural Lenses
- Source :
- Environmental Management. 45:5-18
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2008.
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Abstract
- In this paper, we first discuss various vantage points gained through the authors' experience of approaching conservation through a "cultural lens." We then draw out more general concerns that many anthropologists hold with respect to conservation, summarizing and commenting on the work of the Conservation and Community Working Group within the Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association. Here we focus on both critiques and contributions the discipline of anthropology makes with regard to conservation, and show how anthropologists are moving beyond conservation critiques to engage actively with conservation practice and policy. We conclude with reflections on the possibilities for enhancing transdisciplinary dialogue and practice through reflexive questioning, the adoption of disciplinary humility, and the realization that "cross-border" collaboration among conservation scholars and practitioners can strengthen the political will necessary to stem the growing commoditization and ensuing degradation of the earth's ecosystems.
- Subjects :
- Conservation of Natural Resources
Global and Planetary Change
Ecology
Culture
Community Participation
Social anthropology
Conservation psychology
Observation
Environmental ethics
Biodiversity
Ecological anthropology
Pollution
Politics
Reflexivity
Humans
Interdisciplinary Communication
Community-based conservation
Sociology
Empiricism
Socioeconomics
Commoditization
Discipline
Anthropology, Cultural
Ecosystem
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14321009 and 0364152X
- Volume :
- 45
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0a540c64d53a5cb18c386cea51a25650