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"The recent radical ideas to save nature; namely ‘half earth’ (nature needs half) and ‘new conservation’ further threatens biodiversity conservation and community livelihoods" - Wilhelm Kiwango #pollen20
Challenging the mainstream narrative at this crucial time
#rewilding
Challenging the mainstream narrative at this crucial time
#rewilding
George Iordachescu highlights the long history of collective management of large forested and pasture areas. #Commons management goes back 1000 years, transcending nature-culture divide and drawing on local #knowledge. Conservation not the main goal (it's #livelihoods) #pollen20
Emmanuel Akanpurira unpacks some of the assumptinos Fortress Conservation is based upon.
He draws on Butler and Membe to deconstruct assumptions about human-wildlife conflict.
Work from Uganda shows conflict not inevitable but due to authority-grabs by conservation NGOs..
He draws on Butler and Membe to deconstruct assumptions about human-wildlife conflict.
Work from Uganda shows conflict not inevitable but due to authority-grabs by conservation NGOs..
Fascinating stuff from Dr. Debojyoti Das
Memory, history and place; the Puthi and Dalit literature of the #Sundarbans
@PolEcoNet #pollen20 @stepscentre
Memory, history and place; the Puthi and Dalit literature of the #Sundarbans
@PolEcoNet #pollen20 @stepscentre
"The puthi literature, for example, Bonobibi Jawaharnama and Manasa Mangal attend to the concept of biocentrism and ecological egalinitarism where humans are seen as part of nature not as a dominant or superior agent."
"Modern environmentalism can gain considerably from the wisdom embedded in puthi literature and vernacular postmodern dalit literature that talk about human behavior regulated by the moral "ethics of care" and “rights for nature”."
"Market based solutions dominate policy proposals but remain consisently marginal to actually addressing the problems" says @FoleyPfalzgraf, as part of her careful and revealing #POLLEN20 pres:
""Fixing" the Forest in Vanuatu" #carbon #offsetting
""Fixing" the Forest in Vanuatu" #carbon #offsetting
Foley places a carbon offsetting scheme in Vanuatu as part of a history marked by colonialism, deforestation and depopulation
Foley notes that since the introduction of customry forest management, deforestation has been reduced to virtually zero. Despite having zero responsibility for global emissions, Vanuatu's leaders have turned to tree growing as a mitigation strategy..
Interesting take-aways from @elliotjchurst's thought provoking #POLLEN20 presentation "The nature of Nature-based Solutions" @PolEcoNet
1/5 Recognition of multi-scale power inequalities
"our nature is not your solution"
1/5 Recognition of multi-scale power inequalities
"our nature is not your solution"
2/5 Elliot introduces three interesting lenses, incl. NbS as infrastructure
3/5 and NbS as landscapes, or 'multispecies assemblages'
BLOG: How to respond to Nature in crisis: look beyond the big stories
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CONFERENCE: #POLLEN20 - Contested Natures: June 2020 in Brighton. @PolEcoNet comes back to Brighton for 3 days of debate + creativity on big themes in political ecology
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Call for proposals for #POLLEN20:
- struggles in agrarian & environmental change
- how capitalism shapes & uses nature
- feminist, queer and trans perspectives on nature
- how visual arts & speculative fiction see nature & new ways of relating to it
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- struggles in agrarian & environmental change
- how capitalism shapes & uses nature
- feminist, queer and trans perspectives on nature
- how visual arts & speculative fiction see nature & new ways of relating to it
pollen2020.wordpress.com/call-for-sessi…
You don't have to be a professional academic or researcher to join! We are encouraging people to submit ideas for panels, workshops, skill-share or discussion, exhibition or other activities about 'Contested Natures' - just fill in the form by 22 November pollen2020.wordpress.com/call-for-sessi…
This conference will be held in Brighton in June 2020. Brighton in June is lovely. 🌞🌊🌈
💡 CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS 💡
Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration 🌿💥
POLLEN 2020 conference @PolEcoNet
Conference: 24-26 June 2020
Session proposal deadline: 31 Oct 2019
pollen2020.wordpress.com
#POLLEN20
Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration 🌿💥
POLLEN 2020 conference @PolEcoNet
Conference: 24-26 June 2020
Session proposal deadline: 31 Oct 2019
pollen2020.wordpress.com
#POLLEN20
@PolEcoNet @IDS_UK @SPRU @SussexUni @uniofbrighton @SIIDgroup @biosec_erc QUESTIONS:
1) What is the nature of ‘crisis’ ? How and by whom are natures being (re)made through and against the language, politics and materiality of crisis at different scales?
1) What is the nature of ‘crisis’ ? How and by whom are natures being (re)made through and against the language, politics and materiality of crisis at different scales?
@PolEcoNet @IDS_UK @SPRU @SussexUni @uniofbrighton @SIIDgroup @biosec_erc 2) What tools do we have at hand and what tools are needed to make sense of evolving society-nature relationships in different contexts?
