2006 Annual Meeting, Association
of American Geographers
March 7-11, Chicago Illinois
4134 Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas
Friday, 3/10/06, from 8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Session Description:
Protected areas have become one of the most visible manifestations of the globalization of conservation, with IUCN now recognizing more than 100,000 protected areas that together encompass nearly 12% of the earth's land surface. They have also become major sites of struggles over human rights and indigenous rights and differing visions of conservation, development, territoriality, and governance. Political ecological theorization and critiques of protected areas have largely focused on coercive state imposition of 'wilderness' conservation enclosures in the homelands of indigenous peoples and other rural residents. The papers in this session explore issues of land use, conservation, and rights in a wider span of protected areas. These include not only Yellowstone model situations but also various other forms of inhabited protected areas, which residents may or may not feel exemplify what IUCN now endorses as "new paradigm" protected areas or what Stevens (2004, 2005) refers to as "(post)colonial protected areas" on account of their supposed repudiation of colonial conservation and embodiment of rather different power relationships and discourses.
Sponsorship(s):
Asian Geography Specialty Group
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group
Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Organizer(s):
Stan Stevens - University of Massachusetts
Chair(s):
Stan Stevens - University of Massachusetts
Papers:
8:00 AM Author(s): Aileen Hoath - Curtin University of Technology
Abstract Title: Internal buffer, rehabilitation zone or traditional use zone? The reinvention and rebuilding of viable human-nature relationships at Meru Betiri National Park in East Java.
8:20 AM Author(s): Maria Fadiman, Ph.D. - Florida Atlantic University
Abstract Title: Natural resource use and change: Nipa hut roof construction with Nypa fruticans (Arecaceae), in Palawan, Philippines.
8:40 AM Author(s): Sharlene Mollett - University of Toronto
Abstract Title: Esta Listo? Race, Gender and Land Registration in the Honduran Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
9:00 AM Author(s): Brian William Conz, M.S. - University of Massachusetts
Abstract Title: The Contested Terrain of Legitimacy: Communal Forests, Parks, and Pathogens in Highland Guatemala
9:20 AM Author(s): Stan Stevens - University of Massachusetts
Abstract Title: Towards a (Post)colonial Protected Area in the Mt. Everest Region of Nepal?
