Dear List members
We have a small number of places available on our 'Perspectives on
Conservation' workshop being held in the Department of Anthropology and
Geography at Oxford Brookes University (UK) on Thursday 13 May. Please see
details below.
Regards,
Sarah Cant
(Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Anthropology and Geography,
Oxford Brookes University).
Perspectives on Conservation
Thursday 13 May, 2010, Oxford Brookes University
A one-day workshop organised by the Anthropology Centre for Conservation,
Environment and Development (ACCEND) in the Department of Anthropology and
Geography at Oxford Brookes University.
The aim of this workshop is to explore inter-disciplinary perspectives on
conservation. Conservation is often associated with something of value: a
species, a habitat, a land management regime (Hinchliffe, 2007:124), and
with 'making things present' (Hinchliffe, 2007:127). Conservation provides
a common thematic meeting ground for different disciplines, including
geography and anthropology, however academic discourses on conservation
range widely over a terrain of practices, concepts, policies, places,
cultures, objects, species and landscapes; discourses that configure
relations between humans, non-humans and environments in multiple ways.
How can we draw together common approaches and develop new projects that
recognise and interrogate these different perspectives on Conservation?
Starting with anthropology, geography and the social sciences, this
workshop will begin to unpack the differences and explore the similarities
between our approaches to conservation.
- What does conservation mean for people working in different
disciplines?
- What are the assumptions made by geographers and anthropologists, and
within the sub-fields of those disciplines?
- What kind of perspectives are presented and practised within the
social sciences more broadly?
- What kinds of relations are needed for conservation? (e.g. academic,
disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, social, cultural, environmental, practices)
The workshop will incorporate key-note presentations from Jamie Lorimer
(Kings College, University of London) and Dan Brockington (University of
Manchester), short presentations from staff working on aspects of
conservation in the Department of Anthropology and Geography (including
perspectives from biological and social anthropology, human and physical
geography), small group discussions, and a commentary by James Carrier.
You are warmly invited to attend the workshop (see programme listed
below), post-graduate students are particularly encouraged to attend. The
workshop is free however places are limited. To book a place at the
workshop, please email [log in to unmask], by Sunday 9 May. Please
include a short statement on your interests in conservation, your
institutional affiliation, and please state if you are a post-graduate
student.
Further details on the workshop will be sent with confirmation of your
booking.
Workshop programme
9.30 Arrival and registration
10.00 Introduction
10.05 Perspectives on conservation 1
Helen Walkington: Conservation of heritage landscapes
Kate Hill: Conservation of wildlife: the new business opportunity in Uganda
Anna Nekaris: Addressing taxonomic bias in primate conservation studies
10.50 Key note: Jamie Lorimer (Kings College, University of London)
'Elephants as companion species: the lively biogeographies of Asian
elephant conservation in Sri Lanka'
11.30 Break
11.45 Perspectives on conservation 2
Peter Kirby: Ethnographic research on English attitudes to 'nature' and
conservation issues
Joy Hendry: Conservation of indigenous peoples and their languages
Rozita Mekanikian: Environmental conservation, indigenous knowledge and
traditional lifestyles
12.30 Key note: Dan Brockington (University of Manchester)
'Protected Areas and Human Well Being'
13.15 Lunch
14.15 Parallel small group discussion sessions
15.15 Feedback
15.45 Break
16.00 Commentary: James Carrier
16.30 Responses and discussion
17.00 Close
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