Impure and Worldly Geography: Pierre Gourou and Tropicality. By Gavin Bowd and Daniel Clayton

Fuggle, Sophie

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“…Recently, there has been considerable discussion as to the role that humans, both Pre-and Post-Columbian, have played in influencing species abundances and diversity in apparently natural forest settings; what used to be radical suggestions of heavy human presence in the Amazon are increasingly now being confirmed through archeological, soil, and aerial/LIDAR, and other scientific surveys [21][22][23][24][25][26] (Figure 2). Mountain geography consistently used landscape characterization of climatic envelopes and biotic distributions to define the "first nature" in which physical components, which considered tropical rain forests as pristine or untouched [27]. With the realization of human transformations due to resource management and exploitation by agriculture and mining, the "second nature" of the rain forests emphasized the past utilitarian use of timber, rubber, gold, and oil [28].…”

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“…forests as pristine or untouched [27]. With the realization of human transformations due to resource management and exploitation by agriculture and mining, the "second nature" of the rain forests emphasized the past utilitarian use of timber, rubber, gold, and oil [28] This realization is fundamental to modern historical geoecology.…”

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Ecological Legacies and Ethnotourism: Bridging Science and Community in Ecuador’s Amazonia

Sarmiento,

Bush,

McMichael

et al. 2024

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This paper offers paradigmatic insights from an international workshop on Ecological Legacies: Bridge Between Science and Community, in Ecuador, in the summer of 2023. The conference brought together foreign and local scholars, tour operators, village community, and Indigenous leaders in the upper Amazonia region of Ecuador with the goal of developing a vision for a sustainable and regenerative future of the upper Amazon. The conference offered three epistemological contributions to the existing literature in the emergent field of Montology, including addressing issues of (a) understanding the existing linguistic hegemony in describing tropical environments, (b) the redress of mistaken notions on pristine jungle environments, and (c) the inclusion of traditional knowledge and transdisciplinary approaches to understand the junglescape from different perspectives and scientific traditions. Methodologically, the conference bridged the fields of palaeoecological and ethnobotanical knowledge (as part of a wider conversation between science and local communities). Results show that local knowledge should be incorporated into the study of the junglescape and its conservation, with decolonial approaches for tourism, sharing language, methodology, tradition, and dissemination of the forest’s attributes. Our research helped co-create and formulate the “Coca Declaration” calling for a philosophical turn in research, bridging science and ethnotourism in ways that are local, emancipatory, and transdisciplinary. We conclude that facilitating new vocabulary by decolonial heightening of Indigenous perspectives of the junglescape helps to incorporate the notion of different Amazons, including the mountainscape of the Andean–Amazonian flanks. We also conclude that we can no consider Ecuador the country of “pure nature” since we helped demystify pristine nature for foreign tourists and highlighted local views with ancestral practices. Finally, we conclude that ethnotourism is a viable alternative to manage heritagization of the junglescape as a hybrid territory with the ecological legacies of the past and present inhabitants of upper Amazonia.

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