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Indigenous
Peoples Specialty Group |
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Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas: Conservation Through Self-Determination |
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Description: |
This session continues a practice over the past several years of providing a venue at the AAG annual meetings for discussions of conservation, difference, and social justice and for analyses of the diverse political ecologies created by the establishment of protected areas by Indigenous peoples, states, and NGOs in Indigenous peoples' territories. This session's papers critically assess the possibilities created by new local environmentalist discourses and transnational conservation collaborations in Tibet, Inuit perceptions and responses to protected area establishment and management in Nunavik in northern Quebec, collaborations by Indigenous peoples in Suriname with national, regional, and international organizations to gain legal land ownership and increased management authority in protected areas, and the possibility that Sherpas in Nepal and Maya in Guatemala may find (post)colonial protected area development a means of maintaining or regaining autonomy and self-determination. |
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Anticipated Attendance: |
50 |
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Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group |