Race and Gender Bias in the Research Community on African Lions

Bauer, Hans; Gebresenbet, Fikirte; Kiki, Martial; Simpson, Lynne; Sillero‐Zubiri, Claudio

doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00024

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“…2018; Bauer et al. 2019). We identify that the other productive partners of interdisciplinary collaborations must include people from the local communities and members of the host country's wildlife or environmental agencies.…”

Section: Human Heritage‐centered Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Interdisciplinarity has historically been rather low among teams of conservation practitioners (Bawa 2006;Montgomery et al 2018). Further, much of the peer-reviewed conservation research based in the Global South does not feature a host-country individual on the list of authors (Griffiths & Dos Santos 2012;Montgomery et al 2018;Bauer et al 2019). We identify that the other productive partners of interdisciplinary collaborations must include people from the local communities and members of the host country's wildlife or environmental agencies.…”

Section: Human Heritage-centered Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Positioning human heritage at the center of conservation practice

Montgomery

Borona

Kasozi

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Conservation Biology

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Conservation projects subscribing to a community-based paradigm have predominated in the 21st century. We examined the context in which the phrase was coined and traced its growth over time. Communitybased conservation first appeared in the literature in the early 1990s; but grew little until after the 5th World Parks Congress in 2003. Thereafter, publications describing community-based conservation approaches increased exponentially. The conference theme was Benefits Beyond Boundaries, and its goal was to provide an economic model based on revenue accrued from conservation fundraising and ecotourism to support ecosystems, wildlife, and people, particularly in the Global South. Such models tended not to incorporate, as a core principle, the heritage of local human communities. Human heritage varies substantially over time and space making generalization of conservation principles across scales challenging. Pitfalls that have grown out of the community-based conservation approaches in the Global South include fortress conservation, conservation militarism, consumptive and nonconsumptive ecotourism, and whiz-bang solutions. We propose 10 tenets in a human heritage-centered conservation framework (e.g., engage in conservation practices using local languages, thoughtfully propose and apply solutions consistent with human heritage, provide clear professional development pathways for individuals from local communities, and promote alternative revenue-generating programs centered in local communities, among others). Progressive philosophies can derive from authentic and ethical integration of local communities in conservation practice.

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Section: Human Heritage‐centered Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Human Heritage-centered Conservationmentioning

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Positioning human heritage at the center of conservation practice

Montgomery

Borona

Kasozi

et al. 2020

Conservation Biology

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“…A step forward is the acknowledgement of inequalities and biases based on gender-based differences. Discrimination against women leading conservation projects (Jones and Solomon, 2019), and underrepresentation of women researchers in conservation institutions (Bauer et al, 2019), clash with the evidence of better conservation outcomes when progressive gender quotas are in place, even within a gender-binary formulation (Cook et al, 2019)). Yet our analysis emphasizes the central role of women in artistic activism.…”

Section: Appreciation Of Wilderness Beyond the Gender Binary?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Six avenues for engendering creative environmentalism

Rodríguez‐Labajos

Ray

2021

Global Environmental Change

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The ubiquitous use of artworks (e.g., paintings, music, films) in environmental activism has been shown to trigger specific cognitive processes as well as changes in personal values and behaviours. There is less understanding of whether (or how) gender-differentiated environmental claims and gender-transformative initiatives are voiced and promoted through art and cultural expressions. Using network analysis, this paper comprehensively reviews ninety-eight years of peer-reviewed literature on gender and environmental activism. We identify six avenues of gendered artistic activism (or 'artivism') on environmental issues that communities have pursued in the past. We present a non-prescriptive description of each avenue based on key references in the literature. A gendered lens on artistic activism makes visible the power of different groups to act, be they women, men, LGBTQ or other collectives, their chosen (or available) scopes of creative action when engaging with environmental protection and their thematic foci. A highlight of the study is the significant presence of younger demographics, including children and students in environmental artivism. Finally, we discuss how gendered artivism expands our understanding of environmental action, putting our results in conversation with well-known current environmentalism(s).

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“…understanding male lions and their conflicts is crucial to conserving the animals, it is worth noting that women, along with black and African researchers, are underrepresented authors in publications about lions (Bauer et al 2019). Access to the complex social dynamics of lions is granted mostly through a male, white, foreign expertise.…”

Section: Hunting Gender and Powermentioning

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Sympathy for Cecil: gender, trophy hunting, and the western environmental imaginary

Godoy

2020

Journal of Political Ecology

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This article draws from political ecology, animal ethics, and ecofeminism to examine sympathy, expressed by record-breaking donation from North Americans, for the death of Cecil the Lion. Sympathy is disclosive insofar as it reveals, relies upon, and reinforces different forms of sexual, racial, and neocolonial domination; especially when western sympathy remains ignorant of the politics and histories of the power relations that shape attitudes toward non-human animals and their status as members in a moral community. When does nature appear as something to take care of rather than take care against?Keywords: sympathy, animal ethics, ecofeminism, big-game hunting, wildlife conservation, Cecil the Lion

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Race and Gender Bias in the Research Community on African Lions

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

Positioning human heritage at the center of conservation practice

Positioning human heritage at the center of conservation practice

Six avenues for engendering creative environmentalism

Sympathy for Cecil: gender, trophy hunting, and the western environmental imaginary

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