WITHDRAWN: Why scientists succeed yet their organizations splinter: Historical and social network analyses of policy advocacy in conservation

Nyssa, Zoe

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2019.05.007

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“…Our collaboration began in reckoning with the curious resonances between the saving efforts we each study: white American Evangelicals strive to save millions of human embryos from cryopreserved limbo (Cromer 2018); conservation scientists around the world attempt to save species by cordoning them into highly managed protected areas (Nyssa 2019); Samoan Pentecostal women save lives through salvation prayers that help converts reimagine feeding their families, using their resources in new ways (Hardin 2019a, 2019b). We are struck too by how each of us has found ourselves implicated in these projects: communities that wanted us to lend our expertise or help advocate for their saving projects; colleagues who advised us not to “throw the baby out with the bathwater” in our analyses of these projects.…”

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Cromer

Hardin

Nyssa

2020

Journal for the Anthropology of North America

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Everything seems to need saving. Rarely a day passes without a headline, speech, campaign, or policy to save something precious and at risk, something worthy of protection. Save trees by naming them, Jane Goodall encouraged this year at Davos, an annual gathering of global business and political elites (Pomeroy 2020). The 2020 meeting, typically dominated by talk of economics and high finance, chose "Saving the Planet" as one of its themes. Climate striker Greta Thunberg reminded attendees that "our house is still on fire" and, in speeches delivered around the globe, wonders pointedly why youth should bother "studying for a future that soon will be no more when no one is doing anything whatsoever to save that future" (NPR 2019). Global health initiatives promise to "save lives and money" while some US policymakers lament the "racial savings gap" for black Americans nearing retirement. Saving is having a moment as a key term for our time, so how should we come to terms with it? Saving entered English via the Latin salvare, steadily picking up new meanings and applications over millennia, as an ever-expanding necessity for someone or something "to deliver, rescue…afford salvation,…heal,…preserve,…protect,…salvage" (Oxford English Dictionary 2020). On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with the words of Dr. King's moving oratory circulating around social media, we were reminded that he found utility in saving, saying it was black Americans who would "save the soul of America." Though these examples show the life-affirming capacities of saving rhetoric, it can also be a preamble to violence. Just weeks after 9/11, President George W. Bush justified the invasion of Afghanistan as no less than "a war to save civilization itself" (CNN 2001). Nearly two decades later, the current US president described the extrajudicial killing of Iranian General Suleimani as a "bold and decisive action to save American lives and deliver American justice."

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Nyssa

2020

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(Not So) common places: The roles of ecologists in environmental public policy

Weyland

Below

2021

Environmental Science & Policy

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Contextual Influences on Leader Development Among Natural Scientists in Uganda

Lukwago

Martins

Tefera

2023

Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology

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The study's aim is to ascertain the role of contextual influences on leader development among natural scientists in Uganda differ from those of non-scientist leaders in the Ugandan context. The study design, methodology, and approach include a retrospective mixed-methods multi-case comparative case study to examine the leader development lifespan experiences of technical expert scientists holding leadership positions in organizations of different sectors. Purposive sampling was used to select senior expert natural scientists providing sustainability leadership at healthcare organizations, at the Uganda Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries and affiliate agencies. Non-scientist leaders from Uganda Revenue Authority were included as a comparator group. Findings reveal that scientists experience normative behaviors right from their undergraduate levels only focused on technical skills being devoid of soft skills. Research limitations and implications direct to the need for developing leaders through coaching and mentoring, as well as leadership succession planning.

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WITHDRAWN: Why scientists succeed yet their organizations splinter: Historical and social network analyses of policy advocacy in conservation

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Reckoning with Saving

Reckoning with Saving

(Not So) common places: The roles of ecologists in environmental public policy

Contextual Influences on Leader Development Among Natural Scientists in Uganda

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