2005 Annual Meeting, Association
of American Geographers
April 5-9, Denver, Colorado
Indigenous Peoples and Protected
Areas I
Sponsorships:
Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Latin American Specialty Group
Description:
These two sessions explore the many issues raised by the establishment
of national parks and other protected areas in indigeous peoples'
homelands. They include critiques of protected area discourses and
political ecological dynamics that have displaced and marginalized
indigenous peoples; analyses of the social, political, economic,
cultural, and ecological conditions within inhabited protected areas;
evaluations of indigenous peoples' conservation contributions to
protected areas; and accounts of efforts to create new kinds of
protected areas that respect indigenous rights and foster indigenous
management or co-management.
Organizer: Stan Stevens
Chair: Stan Stevens
Participants:
Jeffrey (Sasha) Davis
How do you return to an eco-tourist sanctuary? Conservation
and
repatriation on Bikini Atoll
Cathy Robinson
Indigenous co-management of ‘Feral’ Tourist and
Animals in National Parks in Australia’s Uluru Kata-Tjuta
and Kakadu World Heritage Areas
Mary M. Brook
The Political Ecology of Scale in Nicaragua’s Atlantic
Biological Corridor
Stan Stevens
Wilderness, Social Nature, and Protected Areas: IUCN’s
Encounter with the Indigenous World
Stan Stevens, discussant
