Inhuman(e) Subjects: Postmodern Theory and Contemporary Animal Liberation Fiction

Barrett, Laura; White, Daniel

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“…Protection often goes hand in hand with restoration efforts that attempt to simulate a pre-human nature. Protected areas, to different degrees, attempt to replicate an idealized nature (Peet and Watts 1996;Knight 2006) and managers seek to restore or recreate ideal natures (Barrett and White 2001;Castree 1995;Howell et al 2011). Grounded in an Arcadian imaginary, restoration, reforestation, and related conservation projects are often much more about mimicking ideals (Auerbach 2004(Auerbach [1942Baudrillard 1998;Vaccaro and Beltran 2009) than about managing real environmental change.…”

Section: Journal Of Political Ecologymentioning

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Political ecology and conservation policies: some theoretical genealogies

Vaccaro¹,

Beltran²,

Paquet³

2013

Journal of Political Ecology

118

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This article explicitly connects a growing body of specific literature, the political ecology of conservation, to some of the often overlooked, main conceptual components emerging from political anthropology and geography (sources of legitimacy, governmentality, territoriality, or state making), political economy (commoditization, market integration, niche markets, or gentrification), and cultural studies of the environment (cultural transformations of nature, cultural heritage and landscapes, taste, and identity politics). All these concepts and literary fields are at the basis of the contemporary social analysis of conservation policies and their consequences. The article also provides an updated large bibliography on the concepts potentially relevant to a political ecology of conservation.Key Words: conservation, governmentality, taste, nature, commoditization of nature, territoriality

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Section: Journal Of Political Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Political ecology and conservation policies: some theoretical genealogies

Vaccaro¹,

Beltran²,

Paquet³

2013

Journal of Political Ecology

118

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“…We chose them in order to reexplain nature in the hinterlands of the Western world-and probably in many other heavily managed environments-as the product of environmental engineer-ing, an inherently socially guided process. We also wished to prove that the rationale for this managerial agency is not always limited to ecological considerations, scientific and dispassionate; that the reconstruction of nature is necessarily connected to values, uses, and expectations of what nature should be (Wark 1994; Braun and Castree 1998; Barrett and White 2001;Donlan 2005).…”

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“…Environmental recovery is, after all, a designed, human-made nature (Castree 1995). This, therefore, is often the cultural production of a landscape in which nature is reinvented to fulfill our postmodern standards for wilderness (Cronon 1996; Braun and Castree 1998; Barrett and White 2001).…”

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Livestock Versus “Wild Beasts”: Contradictions In The Natural Patrimonialization Of The Pyrenees

Vaccaro¹,

Beltran²

2009

Geographical Review

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ABSTRACT. The Pyrenees are becoming an environmental reservoir. The acute human depopulation experienced during the twentieth century and the progressive appropriation of large parts of the mountainous territory by the state in order to implement conservation policies have resulted in the return, via reintroduction or natural regeneration, of bears, wolves, beavers, river otters, marmots, mouflon, feral goats, and deer, among other species. This development, however, has not occurred without social and scientific controversy and leads to questions about territorialization and governmentality. Herders perceive wild animals as unregulated public property subsidized by the work of the local populace. Agriculturalists see their fields trespassed on a daily basis by animals they cannot kill because of their protected status. Ranchers, under extremely strict sanitation regulations, see their animals coming into contact with these unchecked wild populations. The work and living space of the mountain communities has fallen under the jurisdiction of external institutions and constituencies that value conservation and ecotourism above local subsistence.

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Fundamentalist Dominion, Postmodern Ecology

Maltby¹

2008

Ethics & the Environment

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Inhuman(e) Subjects: Postmodern Theory and Contemporary Animal Liberation Fiction

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Political ecology and conservation policies: some theoretical genealogies

Political ecology and conservation policies: some theoretical genealogies

Livestock Versus “Wild Beasts”: Contradictions In The Natural Patrimonialization Of The Pyrenees

Fundamentalist Dominion, Postmodern Ecology

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