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AAG Meeting in Los Angeles; April 9-13, 2013
Sponsored by the Cultural & Political Ecology Specialty Group (CAPE)
Organizers: Alice B. Kelly (UC Berkeley) & Megan Ybarra (Willamette University)
Discussants: Rod Neumann (Florida International University) & Nancy Peluso (UC Berkeley)
As
struggles over nature are increasingly understood “green grabbing” (Fairhead, Leach, and Scoones 2012), scholars
are rethinking the relationship between violence and the nature of nature. A
political ecology approach has centered critiques of conservation as coercion,
focusing on the role of dispossession and criminalization of resource-dependent
livelihoods (Thompson 1975; Peluso 1993; Neumann
1998; West, Igoe, and Brockington 2006; Agrawal and Redford 2007). Conservation
practice often expels one set of forest residents, only to foster new
communities of criminals, poachers and rebels (Greenough
2003). Increasingly, protected areas have also become modern landscapes
of social wars, such as the “war on drugs” and the “war on terror.”
In this double panel, we invite submissions that consider how conceptions of nature and property are produced through violence. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
· Territorialization and violence
· Militarization and securitization of protected areas
· Border creation and control
· Policing and criminalization
If you are interested in joining the session, please submit your proposed title and abstract by Sunday, September 30th to Alice B. Kelly ([log in to unmask]) and Megan Ybarra ([log in to unmask]). We will try to confirm participation by October 10th.
References
Agrawal, A., and K. Redford. 2007. Conservation and displacement: An overview. Conservation and Society 7 (1):1-10.
Fairhead, J., M. Leach, and I. Scoones. 2012. Green Grabbing: a new appropriation of nature? Journal of Peasant Studies 39 (2):237-261.
Greenough, P. 2003. Bio-Ironies of the fractured forest: India's tiger reserves. In In Search of the Rain Forest, ed. C. Slater, 167-203. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Neumann, R. 1998. Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over livelihood and nature preservation in Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Peluso, N. L. 1993. Coercing Conservation? The politics of state resource control. Global Environmental Change 3:199-217.
Thompson, E. P. 1975. Whigs and Hunters: the origin of the Black Act. London: Allen Lane.
West, P., J. Igoe, and D. Brockington. 2006. Parks and peoples: The social impact of protected areas. Annual Review of Anthropology 35 (1):251-277.
(apologies for cross-posting)
Megan Ybarra
Assistant Professor of Politics
http://www.willamette.edu/~mybarra/
Geógrafa y catedrática
Universidad de Willamette
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