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There is no conservation without addressing poverty, injustice, marginality, and oppression. Conservation "successes" that ignore social processes and outcomes, that ignore people, that are built on repression are NOT WORTH HAVING. 1/10 #SSWGTC20
Rights of indigenous and of local communities crucial to conservation success. Questioning separation of indigenous and scientific is NOT grounds to ignore fundamentally important politics of engaging indigenous groups for conservation.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1995.tb00560.x?casa_token=z0HiAYZfULsAAAAA:0_Gr4Ivn-HtFglBEjTSGqHZNxJ_jT9ZwtYcPtodzx6vGjQz3pLt9iuAJVf8li_oifFjxVcwA2HKxqao
2/10 #SSWGTC20
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1995.tb00560.x?casa_token=z0HiAYZfULsAAAAA:0_Gr4Ivn-HtFglBEjTSGqHZNxJ_jT9ZwtYcPtodzx6vGjQz3pLt9iuAJVf8li_oifFjxVcwA2HKxqao
2/10 #SSWGTC20
Similarly, we can highlight inequalities within communities or how elite capture decision making–but conservation solutions cannot stop there. Addressing social and environmental injustices within communities is also central to conservation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X98001612
3/10 #SSWGTC20
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X98001612
3/10 #SSWGTC20
Conservation without attention to those in places that science wants to conserve has led to too many being displaced. Without involving people in conservation, efforts to conserve will never escape their histories of colonizing injustices
http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2009;volume=7;issue=1;spage=1;epage=10;aulast=Agrawal
4/10 #SSWGTC20
http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2009;volume=7;issue=1;spage=1;epage=10;aulast=Agrawal
4/10 #SSWGTC20
Supporting communities, indigenous groups, and those discarded on the dust heap of history is a central task of conservation. But how? Without attending to history, power, and interests, "conservation successes" will be transitory, unjust, and polarizing.
5/10 #SSWGTC20
5/10 #SSWGTC20
Conservation has a long history. Over such histories, people change: beliefs, actions, and attitudes. Understanding such change crucial to longer term success - How do people become different, more intrinsically interested in better environmental outcomes?
6/10 #SSWGTC20
6/10 #SSWGTC20
Changes in intrinsic motivations, and actions inescapably linked to experiences and institutions. For pro-environmental actions and socially oriented outcomes, we must also focus on autonomy, purpose, and mastery: See Daniel Pink:
7/10 #SSWGTC20 https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/autonomy-mastery-purpose.htm
7/10 #SSWGTC20 https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/autonomy-mastery-purpose.htm
So, it is fine to talk about rigor in estimating effects of conservation interventions. But we cannot use rigor in estimating conservation success as a substitute for attending to injustice.
8/10
8/10
Our models need to be equally attentive to distributive justice. Lack of data is inadequate as justification to ignore injustice. Build the datasets!
9/10 #SSWGTC20
9/10 #SSWGTC20
Only when we address injustice in conservation will we be entitled to talk about #conservationoptimism
10/10 #SSWGTC20 (end of homily)
10/10 #SSWGTC20 (end of homily)
