Is Sustainability for Development Anthropologists?

Stone, Morris

doi:10.17730/humo.62.2.9cfam6hd6e04yac8

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“…There is a wealth of literature on the benefits of in situ management internationally (see, for example, Sillitoe 1998;Suchet 2001;Gibbs 2003;Hunn et al 2003;Stone 2003). Such literature supports the arguments made here for institutional redesign.…”

Section: Conclusion: Challenges For Policy Science and Indigenous Hysupporting

confidence: 58%

Sustainable development in the indigenous-owned savanna: innovative institutional design for cooperative wildlife management

Altman

Cochrane

2005

Wildl. Res.

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IntroductionIn this article we examine a particular form of cooperative wildlife management on Aboriginal-owned land in the tropical savanna. Our argument is three-fold. First, we propose that sustainable economic development for indigenous people living on Aboriginal-owned land, and wildlife harvesting and management are inter-related. Second, we argue that sustainable harvesting will require a high level of cooperation between indigenous harvesters of wildlife -the holders of indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK) -biological scientists, and social scientists. Third, we show that while there are existing institutions facilitating such harvesting and collaboration, there is need for further institutional innovation and purpose-built design. 'Hybridity' (in the sense of heterogeneity or fusion) is the key concept central to our proposition that is couched in terms of understanding the hybrid economy, hybrid approaches to sustainability, and hybrid institutions respectively.The empirical evidence presented here focuses on one case study in the tropical savanna of the Northern Territory of Australia. We provide information on a particular region, north-central Arnhem Land, and show how the Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation (BAC) has been at the forefront of a newly emerging form of bottom-up collaborative wildlife management. In conclusion, it is argued that the wildlife management institutional framework proposed here, based on the BAC model, poses challenges for a diversity of interests -state wildlife management authorities, the science community and the indigenous affairs policy community. We believe that such challenges are surmountable.

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Section: Conclusion: Challenges For Policy Science and Indigenous Hysupporting

confidence: 58%

Sustainable development in the indigenous-owned savanna: innovative institutional design for cooperative wildlife management

Altman

Cochrane

2005

Wildl. Res.

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“…In this article, I examine locality studies as a technique to renew civic engagement in regional Japan in order to question assumptions about grassroots initiative and local agency as the drivers of rural sustainability. In calling for greater ethnographic scrutiny of sustainability as a development goal, Priscilla Stone (2003:93, 94–95) critically observes that the sustainability concept encodes specific ideas about “boundaries and agency”: it requires empowered stewards collectively motivated to preserve clearly delineated territories and cultural values. In a rapidly moving world of fluid boundaries and fragmented identities, Stone and others critique the vision of tidily bounded and cohesive communities as a simplification (e.g., see Stone 2003:94) or a reflection of sentimental longings and reactionary nostalgia (Appadurai 1996; Gupta and Ferguson 1997).…”

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Treasure Hunts in Rural Japan: Place Making at the Limits of Sustainability

Love

2013

American Anthropologist

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Locality studies, a form of community mapping, emerged as a popular technique of sustainable development in early-21st-century Japan. Its proponents contend that by cataloging the features of their surroundings rural residents can "rediscover" dormant resources and mobilize civic energies to sustain homes hollowed by decades of persistent socioeconomic decline. Despite its empowering potential, the practice of locality studies also reflects a political climate of devolving responsibility epitomized by decentralization reforms that demand greater autonomy and self-reliance of Japan's regions. Through an ethnographic examination of locality studies and debates surrounding its practice in Japan's northeastern Tōhoku region, I argue that it embodies a politics of recognition suited to an era of state streamlining. Its diverse proponents encourage residents of Tōhoku's mountainous peripheries to convert legacies of marginalization into celebrations of cultural diversity as a way of shifting responsibility for the future of the depleted countryside onto its inhabitants. [sustainability, recognition, neoliberal responsibility, rural decline, community mapping] RESUMEN Los estudios de localidades, una forma de mapeo de las comunidades surgió como una técnica popular de desarrollo sostenible a principios del siglo XXI en el Japón. Sus proponentes sostienen que catalogando las características de los alrededores de residentes rurales se pueden "redescubrir" recursos no usados y movilizar energías cívicas para mantener casas vacías por décadas de persistente decadencia económica. A pesar de su potencial of residents had deployed the previous summer to catalog important attributes of the area, and the purpose of the evening's gathering was to view their findings. Onto a large screen, a projector flashed digital photos they'd taken of the surrounding district. The slide show featured rustic local scenes: weatherworn shrines nestled in greenery, a hot springs bathhouse, the mountainside remains of a copper Love • Treasure Hunts in Rural Japan 113

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“…Political ecologists suggest, that by removing the deterministic normative ecosystem state, nonequilibrium management paradigms provide space to address social justice issues by (re)incorporating livelihood practices and anthropogenic landscapes into management practices (Mascia et al. 2003; Stone 2003; Zimmerer and Young 1998b).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since nonequilibrium perspectives characterize landscapes as potentially achieving multiple scientifically-verified stable states through disturbance processes and path-dependent memory (Perry 2002), land managers are given a wider variety of options beyond producing a narrowly focused ''correct,'' scientifically determined state. Political ecologists suggest, that by removing the deterministic normative ecosystem state, nonequilibrium management paradigms provide space to address social justice issues by (re)incorporating livelihood practices and anthropogenic landscapes into management practices (Mascia et al 2003;Stone 2003;Zimmerer and Young 1998b).…”

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Political Ecology: Nonequilibrium Science and Nature‐Society Research

Grabbatin

Rossi

2012

Geography Compass

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Political ecology has emerged as an interdisciplinary space where concepts from the physical and social sciences are utilized to understand nature‐society relationships. In this paper, we explore how political ecologists have used concepts from nonequilibrium ecology to address concerns over the interactions between land management and livelihood practices. We begin by demystifying how equilibrium and nonequilibrium have been used in ecology, demonstrating the dialectical relationship between these divergent frameworks and how each impacts understandings of living systems. Then, we review how political ecologists employ these concepts to examine environmental knowledge production, as well as the role of livelihoods and anthropogenic disturbances in conservation and restoration. We also discuss how nonequilibrium ecology has shaped our own research trajectories and finish the paper by offering some reflections on the possibilities and pitfalls for political ecology’s use of nonequilibrium ecology to bridge the physical‐human divide in geography.

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Is Sustainability for Development Anthropologists?

Cited by 30 publications

References 9 publications

Sustainable development in the indigenous-owned savanna: innovative institutional design for cooperative wildlife management

Sustainable development in the indigenous-owned savanna: innovative institutional design for cooperative wildlife management

Treasure Hunts in Rural Japan: Place Making at the Limits of Sustainability

Political Ecology: Nonequilibrium Science and Nature‐Society Research

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