Thread by @gotonura, There is no conservation without addressing poverty, injustice, marginality, and oppression. Conservation [...]

Arun Agrawal

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There is no conservation without addressing poverty, injustice, marginality, and oppression. Conservation "successes" that ignore social processes and outcomes, that ignore people, that are built on repression are NOT WORTH HAVING. 1/10 #SSWGTC20

Rights of indigenous and of local communities crucial to conservation success. Questioning separation of indigenous and scientific is NOT grounds to ignore fundamentally important politics of engaging indigenous groups for conservation.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1995.tb00560.x?casa_token=z0HiAYZfULsAAAAA:0_Gr4Ivn-HtFglBEjTSGqHZNxJ_jT9ZwtYcPtodzx6vGjQz3pLt9iuAJVf8li_oifFjxVcwA2HKxqao

2/10 #SSWGTC20

Dismantling the Divide Between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge

In the past few years scholarly discussions have characterized indigenous knowledge as a significant resource for development. This article interrogates the concept of indigenous knowledge and the...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1995.tb00560.x?casa_token=z0HiAYZfULsAAAAA:0_Gr4Ivn-HtFglBEjTSGqHZNxJ_jT9ZwtYcPtodzx6vGjQz3pLt9iuAJVf8li_oifFjxVcwA2HKxqao

Similarly, we can highlight inequalities within communities or how elite capture decision making–but conservation solutions cannot stop there. Addressing social and environmental injustices within communities is also central to conservation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X98001612

3/10 #SSWGTC20

Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation

The poor conservation outcomes that followed decades of intrusive resource management strategies and planned development have forced policy makers and…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X98001612

Conservation without attention to those in places that science wants to conserve has led to too many being displaced. Without involving people in conservation, efforts to conserve will never escape their histories of colonizing injustices
http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2009;volume=7;issue=1;spage=1;epage=10;aulast=Agrawal

4/10 #SSWGTC20

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