Power in Conservation: Environmental Anthropology Beyond Political Ecology by Carol Carpenter (2020) 220 pp., Routledge, Abingdon, UK. ISBN 9-780-367342500 (pbk), GBP 34.99

When governments set up protected areas, they tend towards disciplinary control because people are considered a threat to nature. [...]conservation governs people with the aim of maximizing benefits for natural habitats or wildlife. By including select ethnographies, Carpenter also encourages reader...

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Published in:Oryx 2021-05, Vol.55 (3), p.480-480
Main Authors: Redmore, L., Sene-Harper, A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Conservation
Discipline
Economics
Ethnography
Nature conservation
Neoliberalism
Political ecology
Protected areas
Sovereignty
Wildlife
Wildlife habitats
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Summary:When governments set up protected areas, they tend towards disciplinary control because people are considered a threat to nature. [...]conservation governs people with the aim of maximizing benefits for natural habitats or wildlife. By including select ethnographies, Carpenter also encourages readers to think about the economy outside the economic discipline and to re-centre peasant economics in conservation. [...]unveiling peasant discourse can disrupt the prevailing power of traditional economic approaches driving conservation and development intervention. In showing how conservation research and theories of power are mutually shaped, Power in Conservation is an important companion to any graduate level course on conservation social science or political ecology.
ISSN:0030-6053
1365-3008
DOI:10.1017/S0030605321000405