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Indigenous People and Environmental Politics
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The concept of indigenous knowledge is similarly faulted in favor of the hybrid products of modernity, and the idea of indigenous environmental knowledge and conservation is heatedly contested as mentioned in this paper, but they are reluctant to deny it to local communities, whose use of the concept has become subject to study.Abstract:
Modernity has helped to popularize, and at the same time threaten, indigeneity. Anthropologists question both the validity of the concept of indigeneity and the wisdom of employing it as a political tool, but they are reluctant to deny it to local communities, whose use of the concept has become subject to study. The concept of indigenous knowledge is similarly faulted in favor of the hybrid products of modernity, and the idea of indigenous environmental knowledge and conservation is heatedly contested. Possibilities for alternate environmentalisms, and the combining of conservation and development goals, are being debated and tested in integrated conservation and development projects and extractive reserves. Anthropological understanding of both state and community agency is being rethought, and new approaches to the study of collaboration, indigenous rights movements, and violence are being developed. These and other current topics of interest involving indigenous peoples challenge anthropologic...read more
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Communities and the Environment: Ethnicity, Gender, and the State in Community‐Based Conservation edited by Arun Agrawal and Clark C. Gibson
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Culture, Intangibles and Metrics in Environmental Management
TL;DR: The characterization of cultural benefits and impacts is least amenable to methodological solution when prevailing cultural worldviews contain elements fundamentally at odds with efforts to quantify benefits/impacts, but that even in such cases some improvements are achievable if decision-makers are flexible regarding processes for consultation with community members and how quantification is structured.
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Indigenous movements and the risks of counterglobalization : Tracking the campaign against Papua New Guinea's Ok Tedi mine
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine an indigenous political movement that took legal action to gain compensation and limit the environmental impact of the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea.
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Constructing confidence: rational skepticism and systematic enquiry in local ecological knowledge research
Anthony Davis,Kenneth Ruddle +1 more
TL;DR: Key attributes of the social research contributions on indigenous ecological knowledge, local ecological knowledge (LEK), and traditional ecologicalknowledge (TEK) are analyzed using the most frequently cited literature generated by the "ISI Web of Knowledge" and "Google Scholar" search engines.
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Neoliberalism and the Production of Environmental Knowledge
TL;DR: For example, the authors show that the transformative reach of neoliberal science regimes extends outside the university into various forms of extramural science, such as citizen science, crowdsourcing, indigenous knowledge, and local knowledge.
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