Nepal

"The Politics of Conservation: Sonaha, Riverscape in the Bardia National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal"

Sudeep Jana Thing, Roy Jones, and Christina Birdsall Jones investigate the recent participatory turn in nature conservation policy and practices through an ethnographic investigation of the experiences of the marginalised Sonaha (indigenous people of the Bardia region) in relation to the conservation discourses, policies, and practices of the Bardia National Park authorities in the Nepalese lowland.

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Interspecies Care in a Hybrid Institution

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Perspectives Issue 2017/1

Recognizing elephants as moral actors in the institutional space of the elephant stable, Piers Locke reconceives traditionally humanist ethnography as interspecies ethnography.

"Looking Back to Move Forward: Using History to Understand the Consensual Forest Management Model in the Terai, Nepal"

This paper attempts to explore the historic impacts of forest politics and policy on social equity and ecology in Nepal’s Terai region. It is suggested that past forest politics and policies may continue to influence the forest bureaucracy in Nepal and, hence, shape present-day forest management in the Terai.

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Roundtable Review of Wired Wilderness by Etienne Benson

Sara Dant, Michael Lewis, and Robert M. Wilson discuss Etienne Benson’s Wired Wilderness: Technologies of Tracking and the Making of Modern Wildlife.