Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse

Reo, Nicholas J.; Whyte, Kyle Powys; Ranco, Darren; Brandt, Jodi S.; Blackmer, Emily D.; Elliott, Braden T.

doi:10.5250/amerindiquar.41.3.0201

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“…As a counter to the public/private division of property (Hardt and Negri 2009), cosmopolitanism and landscape of relationship sees the cooperation of people for a greater good (Campbell 2010). Accepting that landscape comprises a continuously changing array of life (e.g., Barker 2010, Reo et al 2017, including through complex political arrangements, connects biosecurity decision making to the everyday decision practices of both public and private landscape managers (D'Emden et al 2004). Diverse cosmopolitan territories embrace the dynamics of many social drivers in the system, such as multiple social values, cultures, and land uses as well as different species shaping the provision of ecosystem services and inhabiting of places.…”

Section: (I) a Part Of Dynamic Cosmopolitan Territoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These practices must ensure mutual respect and multiple voices to assist in recognizing the multiple forms of knowledge that are frequently competing in these territories. A first aspect of reconciling multiple knowledges is in partnership network-centered problem definition and negotiating the meaning of biosecure territories and sharing responsibility (Barker 2010, Reo et al 2017. In this negotiation, policy makers, industry, and the diversity of relevant participants need to consider the following: What targets or issues of concern are okay to be present?…”

Section: (Iii) Integrating Existing Types Of Knowledge Concerns and Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: insights from adaptive governance

Rawluk¹,

Beilin²,

Lavau³

2021

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Amidst an increasingly complex global environment of trade and travel, with heightened concerns for the unintended or deliberate spread of species and diseases, biosecurity is a key policy goal in many parts of the world. In Australia, there is concern that invasive species (plants, animals, and diseases) enter, spread, and establish, threatening local industries such as agriculture, as well as human health and biodiversity. Shared responsibility for biosecurity is a recent policy direction that has gained great traction but requires improved conceptual and practical clarity in how local citizens are co-opted into or experience biosecurity programs. In this paper, we interrogate the framing and enactment of shared responsibility for biosecurity, propose a repositioning informed by attributes of adaptive governance that involves a clearer structuring of partnerships, and illustrate this through a case example of network-based, passive surveillance. This repositioning is organized around four pillars, where biosecurity is a part of dynamic cosmopolitan territories; enacted through diverse networks; integrating with existing types of knowledge, concerns, and practices; and forming networks of partnership. We consider implications for adaptive governance more generally, centering on structure, power, and decision making.

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Section: (Iii) Integrating Existing Types Of Knowledge Concerns and Practicesmentioning

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Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: insights from adaptive governance

Rawluk¹,

Beilin²,

Lavau³

2021

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“…Nicholls (2018) notes that the response strategy of 'attack' is also being utilized to reclaim land and promote seaward and upward development. The militarized and combative language utilized in predominantly western SLR adaptation typology is antithetical to Indigenous epistemologies for adaptation to environmental change that centres on kinship, relationality and ecocentric value systems (McGregor et al, 2020;Reo et al, 2017;Whyte, 2017). Siders and Keenan (2020) note that the reasoning behind selection of certain adaptation measures over others by coastal managers is largely understudied.…”

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“…The primary focus of this viewpoint article is to provide a new framework for Indigenous adaption measures to sea level rise that advance Indigenous water security utilizing eastern coastal Indigenous knowledge systems and ways of knowing. Indigenous scholars and others have noted how Indigenous adaptive capacity is often misinterpreted through the lens of western colonial adaptation frameworks and many climate change studies use deficit language of vulnerability, risk, and extinction and fail to account for Indigenous knowledge and innovation (Belfer et al, 2017;Reo et al, 2017). As Cameron (2012) notes scholars must examine whether existing climate change studies adequately assess the impact of colonialism on current practices and policies in response to environmental change.…”

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WAMPUM Adaptation framework: eastern coastal Tribal Nations and sea level rise impacts on water security

Léonard

2021

Climate and Development

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Sea level rise (SLR) poses significant threats to northeast and mid-Atlantic Tribal Nations' climate and water justice. Existing SLR adaptation frameworks do not include Indigenous knowledge. Furthermore, SLR adaptation policy prioritizes economic and property rights and is misaligned with Indigenous coastal protection priorities. If Tribal Nations are to respond effectively to SLR then adaptation frameworks must be designed and developed by Indigenous Peoples for Indigenous Peoples. Eastern coastal Tribal Nations have a unique history of survival and resilience despite settler-colonial expansion in the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of what is currently referred to as the United States. Experiences of eastern Atlantic coastal Tribal Nations highlight innovative response strategies for SLR adaptation and coastal stewardship practices not reflected in existing adaptation frameworks for the region. Indigenist SLR adaptation frameworks that utilize Indigenous knowledge are needed to combat water security issues resulting from SLR risks such as flooding, saltwater intrusion, storm surge, and erosion. This article proposes the WAMPUM adaptation framework informed by northeastern and mid-Atlantic coastal Tribal Nation science and knowledge systems for climate change adaptation to SLR.

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“…The first is to give a voice to Solega people, as indigenous voices and points of view are often absent from discourses surrounding endangered wildlife, invasive species, and general biodiversity conservation (Barbour and Schlesinger, 2012;Bhattacharyya and Larson, 2014). When indigenous people are mentioned in these discourses, they tend to be portrayed in familiar, conventionalised ways (Reo et al, 2017b). Moreover, even researchers who are sympathetic to indigenous concerns may find it appropriate to suppress the more emic aspects of their study in the name of objectivity, quantifiability, scientific rigour and neutrality (Datta, 2018).…”

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Tiger Becomes Termite Hill: Soliga/Solega Perceptions of Wildlife Interactions and Ecological Change

Agnihotri

Madegowda

2021

Front. Conserv. Sci.

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The Solega community living in the Biligiri Rangan Hills (B. R. Hills) of Karnataka State, southern India, have noticed significant changes to the ecosystem of their forest homeland over the last four or five decades. Originally hunter-gatherers, who carried out swidden agriculture at a subsistence level, they were forced to abandon the semi-nomadic ways of their ancestors, and settle in permanent villages when these forests were first declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1974. In this paper, we present the views of Solega elders on the ecological changes that have taken place in the B. R. Hills, along with the subsequent changes in their interactions with the animals that also inhabit this landscape. The Solega way of life is accustomed to co-existing with wildlife, and they worship several animal deities. Their folklore and traditional ecological knowledge are also replete with ways of avoiding dangerous encounters with wildlife. Many of the detrimental ecological changes observed by Solega people are ascribed by them to the halting of their traditional litter fire regime, and the subsequent rampant growth of the exotic invasive plant Lantana camara, which now dominates the understorey in large swathes of the forest. These factors combine, according to Solega elders, to negatively impact the well-being of both animals as well as their own people. We hope to demonstrate how a deeper understanding of Solega language and culture, both essential facets of everyday life, as well as of their traditional ecological knowledge—can allow a full appreciation of the interactions between small Indigenous communities, such as the Solega, and the natural environment. We argue for a greater appreciation of, and engagement with, Indigenous knowledge in conservation efforts in countries such as India, where the protection of charismatic species, such as tigers, is often perceived to be at odds with the rights of small minority groups, such as the Solega.

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Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse

Cited by 31 publications

References 12 publications

Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: insights from adaptive governance

Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: insights from adaptive governance

WAMPUM Adaptation framework: eastern coastal Tribal Nations and sea level rise impacts on water security

Tiger Becomes Termite Hill: Soliga/Solega Perceptions of Wildlife Interactions and Ecological Change

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