Title & Author:

Decolonize conservation : global voices for Indigenous self-determination, land, and a world in common / edited by Ashley Dawson, Fiore Longo, and Survival International.

Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Common Notions, [2023]
©2023

Description:

241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Give the land back / Ashley Dawson -- Decolonizing conservation / Fiore Longo -- Part I: "In the name of nature": crimes and wrongdoings of the conservation Industry. Section 1: What Is "Fortress conservation"? -- Chapter 1. Fortress conservation in modern Africa: past and present / Guillaume Blanc -- Chapter 2. Nature conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: from policing to community conservation / Blaise Mudodosi -- Chapter 3. The fight against extinction : the Sengwer Indigenous people's struggle for land rights in Kenya / Kipchumba Rotich -- Chapter 4. The post-2020 agenda and fortress conservation in India / Neema Pathak Broome -- Section 2: The militarization of conservation and its impact on Indigenous peoples. Chapter 5. The politics of global funding for militarization in conservation / Rosaleen Duffy -- Chapter 6. The fight against colonial conservation is a fight for millions of people across the world / Pranab Doley -- Chapter 7. Cries and tears from the riparian populations of Virunga National park in Rutshuru Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo / Delcasse Lukumbu -- Chapter 8. Chitwan National Park, where the community are the best conservationists / Birendra Mahato -- Chapter 9. Our most fervent wish is to return to the forest, our land / Julien Basimika Enamiruwa --
Section 3: 30x30 -- Chapter 10. The 30x30 target and Its Impacts on the rights of Indigenous peoples: why a new way forward is needed / Lara Domínguez -- Chapter 11. Indigenous peoples should be leaders of biodiversity conservation and climate action, not victims of its policies / Archana Soreng -- Chapter 12. What's beyond the protected areas system? / Sutej Hugu -- Chapter 13. Conservation needs fundamental economic and political transformation / Ashish Kothari -- Section 4: The false solutions to climate change. Chapter 14. Financialization and sustainable finance as guardians of the status Quo / Frédéric Hache -- Chapter 15. Nature-based solutions: planet salvation or planetary betrayal? / Simon Counsell -- Chapter 16. Indigenous Zapotec in between dispossession and energetic colonialism: the EDF case in Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Mexico / Norberto Altamirano Zárate -- Chapter 17. The decolonization of nature conservation: we are Earth, we are nature / Josefa Sanchez Contreras -- Chapter 18. Climate change mitigation and conservation in India: false solutions / Bhanumathi Kalluri -- Chapter 19. Displacement and violations of human rights in the name of nature in Petén, Guatemala / Noé Amador --
Section 5: The role of media and International donors. Chapter 20. International donors and biodiversity conservation: "Our land is not your solution" / Joe Eisen -- Chapter 21. The lion's share: racialized conservation and misrepresentation in Tanzania / Celeste Alexander -- Chapter 22. Failing miserably / John Vidal -- Chapter 23. What happens in the forest stays in the forest: the role of donor agencies in the current conservation effort and strategies for making It more equitable and effective / Robert E. Moïse --
Part II: Decolonial perspectives and alternatives. Section 1: Why is it necessary to decolonize conservation? Chapter 24. Why we need to decolonize conservation in Africa: confronting the challenges / Mordecai Ogada -- Chapter 25. The Indigenous peoples of French Guiana are being destroyed by neocolonialism / Taneyulime Pilisi -- Chapter 26. Decolonizing conservation and development: hold on to the land, their grand designs will collapse / Madhuresh Kumar -- Chapter 27. What decolonizing conservation means and why it matters / Dina Gilio-Whitaker -- Section 2: The land, our future: Indigenous peoples and their role in protecting the environment. Chapter 28. The decolonization of thought / Juan Pablo Gutierrez -- Chapter 29. I was not born in Chile, Chile was born in my territory / Llanquiray Painemal Morales -- Chapter 30. Indigenous peoples on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua / Lottie Cunningham Wren -- Chapter 31. It is we who guard the forest with our lives / Tokala Leeladhar -- Chapter 32. Our forest has been stolen for conservation / Mekozi Rufin -- Chapter 33. We need to throw these conservationists out of our forests / J. K. Thimma -- Section 3: Towards an alternative conservation. Chapter 34. Towards a collective "Whole Earth" vision for the future of conservation? / Robert Fletcher -- Chapter 35. The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006: towards an alternative conservation / Madegowda C. Ashoka -- Chapter 36. Given all of the obstacles, how do we fight for our future? / Esther Wah -- Chapter 37. Marseille manifesto : a people's manifesto for the future of conservation.

Summary:

"With a deep, anticolonial and antiracist critique and analysis of what "conservation" currently is, Decolonize Conservation presents an alternative vision-one already working-of the most effective and just way to fight against biodiversity loss and climate change. Through the voices of largely silenced or invisibilized Indigenous Peoples and local communities, the devastating consequences of making 30 percent of the globe "Protected Areas," and other so-called "Nature-Based Solutions" are made clear. Evidence proves indigenous people understand and manage their environment better than anyone else. Eighty percent of the Earth's biodiversity is in tribal territories and when indigenous peoples have secure rights over their land, they achieve at least equal if not better conservation results at a fraction of the cost of conventional conservation programs. But in Africa and Asia, governments and NGOs are stealing vast areas of land from tribal peoples and local communities under the false claim that this is necessary for conservation. As the editors write, "This is colonialism pure and simple: powerful global interests are shamelessly taking land and resources from vulnerable people while claiming they are doing it for the good of humanity." The powerful collection of voices from the groundbreaking "Our Land, Our Nature" congress takes us to the heart of the climate justice movement and the struggle for life and land across the globe. With Indigenous Peoples and their rights at its center, the book exposes the brutal and deadly reality of colonial and racist conservation for people around the world, while revealing the problems of current climate policy approaches that do nothing to tackle the real causes of environmental destruction."--Amazon.com viewed July 11, 2023.

ISBN:

1942173768
9781942173762
ebook
9781942173915

Subject:

Ethnoecology.
Environmental protection.
Environmental justice.
Protected areas Management.
Indigenous peoples Government relations.
Nature conservation.
Autonomy and independence movements.
Ecosocialism.
Ethnoécologie.
Environnement Protection.
Justice environnementale.
Aires protégées Gestion.
Autochtones Relations avec l'État.
Nature Conservation.
Autonomie et mouvements indépendantistes.
Écosocialisme.
environmental protection.

Added entries:

Dawson, Ashley, 1965- editor.
Longo, Fiore, editor.
Alexander, Celeste, contributor.
Altamirano Zárate, Norberto, contributor.
Amador, Noé, contributor.
Blanc, Guillaume, contributor.
Broome, Neema Pathak, contributor.
C., Madegowda, contributor.
Counsell, Simon, contributor.
Doley, Pranab, contributor.
Domínguez, Lara, contributor.
Duffy, Rosaleen, contributor.
Eisen, Joe, contributor.
Enamiruwa, Julien Basimika, contributor.
Fletcher, Robert, 1973- contributor.
Gilio-Whitaker, Dina, contributor.
Gutiérrez, Juan Pablo, contributor.
Hache, Frédéric, contributor.
Hugu, Sutej, contributor.
Kalluri, Bhanumathi, contributor.
Kothari, Ashish, contributor.
Kumar, Madhuresh, contributor.
Leeladhar, Tokala, contributor.
Lukumbu, Delcasse, contributor.
Mahato, Birendra, contributor.
Moïse, Robert E., contributor.
Painemal Morales, Llanquiray, contributor.
Muhigwa, Blaise Mudodosi, contributor.
Ogada, Mordecai, contributor.
Pilisi, Taneyulime, contributor.
Rogers, Deborah S., contributor.
Rotich, Kipchumba, contributor.
Rufin, Mekozi, contributor.
Sánchez Contreras, Josefa, contributor.
Soreng, Archana, contributor.
Thimma, J. K., contributor.
Vidal, John, contributor.
Wah, Esther, contributor.
Wren, Lottie Cunningham, contributor.
Survival International.

Global voices for Indigenous self-determination, land, and a world in common

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318404
Call No.: 318404
Copy: 1
Status: Available