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Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild - Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence (Paperback)
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Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild - Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment
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Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and
Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of
wilderness. Contemporary wilderness scholarship has tended to fall
into two categories: the so-called 'fortress conservation' and
'co-existence' schools of thought. This book, contending that this
polarisation has led to a silencing and concealment of alternative
perspectives and lines of enquiry, extends beyond these confines
and in particular steers away from the dilemmas of paradise or
paradox in order to advance an intellectual and policy agenda of
plurality and diversity rather than of prescription and definition.
Drawing on case studies from Australia, Aoteoroa/New Zealand, the
United States and Iceland, and explorations of embodied experience,
creative practice, philosophy, and First Nations land management
approaches, the assembled chapters examine wilderness ideals,
conflicts and human-nature dualities afresh, and examine
co-existence and conservation in the Anthropocene in diverse
ontological and multidisciplinary ways. By demonstrating a strong
commitment to respecting the knowledge and perspectives of
Indigenous peoples, this work delivers a more nuanced, ethical and
decolonising approach to issues arising from relationships with
wilderness. Such a collection is immediately appropriate given the
political challenges and social complexities of our time, and the
mounting threats to life across the globe. The abiding and uniting
logic of the book is to offer a unique and innovative contribution
to engender transformations of wilderness scholarship, activism and
conservation policy. This text refutes the inherent privileging and
exclusionary tactics of dominant modes of enquiry that too often
serve to silence non-human and contrary positions. It reveals a
multi-faceted and contingent wilderness alive with agency,
diversity and possibility. This book will be of great interest to
students and scholars of conservation, environmental and natural
resource management, Indigenous studies and environmental policy
and planning. It will also be of interest to practitioners,
policymakers and NGOs involved in conservation, protected
environments and environmental governance.
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