Russia

Latitude: 
60.00
Longitude: 
100.00
Region Related Areas: 
Eastern Europe, Asia
GeoNames ID: 
2 017 370

Ethnographies of Conservation: Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege

Through a series of ethnographic studies that range from Papua New Guinea to Siberia, Brazil to Namibia, Ethnographies of Conservation argues that the problem is not the disappearance of “pristine nature” or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, critical attention would be better turned on discourses of “primitiveness” and “pristine nature,” so prevalent within conservation ideology.

Review of Kulturnyi landshaft kak ob’ekt naslediya [Cultural Landscape as a Heritage Site], edited by Yuriy Vedenin, and Marina Kuleshova

A review of a Russian language volume published by the Russian Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, and with a forward by the then director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre Francesco Bandarin. The book covers approaches to cultural landscapes, as well as to their conservation and management.