Reflecting new thinking about conservation in Southeast Asia,
"Beyond the Sacred Forest" is the product of a unique, decade-long,
interdisciplinary collaboration involving research in Indonesia,
Malaysia, and the Philippines. Scholars from these countries and
the United States rethink the translation of environmental concepts
between East and West, particularly ideas of "nature" and
"culture"; the meaning of "conservation"; and the ways that
conservation policy is applied and transformed in the everyday
landscapes of Southeast Asia. The contributors focus more on folk,
community, and vernacular conservation discourses than on those of
formal institutions and the state. They reject the notion that
conservation only takes place in bounded, static, otherworldly
spaces such as protected areas or sacred forests. Thick with
ethnographic detail, their essays move beyond the forest to
agriculture and other land uses, leave behind orthodox notions of
the sacred, discard outdated ideas of environmental harmony and
stasis, and reject views of the environment that seek to avoid or
escape politics. Natural-resource managers and policymakers who
work with this more complicated vision of nature and culture are
likely to enjoy more enduring success than those who simply seek to
remove the influence and impact of humans from conserved
landscapes. As many of the essays suggest, this requires the
ability to manage contradictions, to relinquish orthodox ideas of
what conservation looks like, and to practice continuously adaptive
management techniques.
"Contributors." Upik Djalins, Amity A. Doolittle, Michael R.
Dove, Levita Duhaylungsod, Emily E. Harwell, Jeyamalar
Kathirithamby-Wells, Lye Tuck-Po, Percy E. Sajise, Endah
Sulistyawati, Yunita T. Winarto
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