"The Politics of Environmental Knowledge"
Using examples from environmental governance and conservation, Esther Turnhout engages critically with the ideal of policy-relevant environmental knowledge.
Using examples from environmental governance and conservation, Esther Turnhout engages critically with the ideal of policy-relevant environmental knowledge.
Looking at cases of Indigenous land and sea management in Australia, Austin et al. suggest four ways Indigenous groups and institutional investors can work together to establish meaningful criteria for ensuring effective conservation outcomes.
Andrés León Araya reviews Jim Igoe’s The Nature of Spectacle: On Images, Money, and Conservation Capitalism.
In episode 56 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj joins Joanna Dean and Christabelle Sethna to discuss their new book Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada and, more broadly, the history of animals and cities.
In episode 57 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, three historians based outside of Canada explain their research and reasons for studying Canadian environmental history to Sean Kheraj.
In episode 58 of Nature’s Past, a podcast on Canadian environmental history, Sean Kheraj discusses key questions concerning the development of the field of Canadian environmental history with seven environmental historians.
In this special section on Green Wars, Bram Büscher examines the case of rhino poaching in South Africa, arguing that we are seeing the uneven emergence of new geographies of conservation focused on preempting threats (ontopower).
In this article for a special section on Green Wars, Jared D. Margulies considers Louis Althusser’s theory of ideological state apparatuses (ISAs) for advancing political ecology scholarship on the functioning of the state in violent environments. He uses the example of conservation as ideology in Wayanad, Kerala.
Gustavo A. Garcia-Lopez and Camille Antinori trace and analyze the historical processes driving formation and change of Mexican inter-community forestry associations over time, drawing on survey data and in-depth case studies from two Mexican states.
Victoria Gonzalez Carman and Maria Carman focus on the interaction between a fishing community and a group of conservation experts in Brazil. They find that although fishers classify species according to their capacity to be exploited as a resource, they may also be willing to become strategic conservationists by negotiating with conservation experts to protect some of these species.