Conservation Conjunctures: Contestation and Situated Consent in Peru's Huascarán National Park

Abstract

contestation and conflict over territorial authority between actors with differing sociocultural values and material demands on the resource base in question. These interactions, in turn, are contingent upon social and political processes and often change over time as power balances shift and values and paradigms evolve.Trends in conservation have found new ways of framing both the relationship between parks and people, and people and environment, moving from top-down to participatory forms of management. Behind such processes are deep concerns about the legitimacy of resource control and the question of how authority is established within territorial jurisdictions. Legitimacy is a site of encounters, an arena of contestation over who has the right to govern particular resources, territories, or people (Jeffrey et al. 2015). A number of studies have been concerned with the role of legitimacy in natural resource

What (De)Motivates Forest Users’ Participation in Co-Management? Evidence from Nepal

“…Field evidence proves that people remain motivated to participate; this could also be attributed to the lack of a clear understanding by the users about the co-management principles and activities. Rasmussen [55] contends that people generally accept the principles of conservation as long as they do not run counter to ideas about who may control resources. So, the voices of the stakeholders should be heard and incorporated to build a sense of collective ownership and participation.…”

Convivencia negociada y gobernanza ambiental en áreas naturales protegidas del Perú

“…La legitimidad, autoridad y responsabilidad política se derivan del consentimiento de aquellos que son gobernados (Sikor y Lund 2009). La idea del "contrato social" indica que el ejercicio de poder no puede ser asumido o naturalizado (Rasmussen et al 2019;Riley 2013). Desde una perspectiva antropológica, la pregunta por el contrato social cuestiona la producción de autoridad pública y la legitimación del ejercicio de poder (Connelly et al 2006).…”