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This book presents current research in the political ecology of
indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical
areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving
studies on conservation of sacred natural sites (SNS), the book
elucidates the complexity of development scenarios within cultural
landscapes related to the appropriation of religion, environmental
change in indigenous territories, and new conservation management
approaches. Indigeneity and the Sacred explores how these struggles
for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical
landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reconstituted as
globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion
of indigeneity.
In the US South, wood-based bioenergy schemes are being promoted
and implemented through a powerful vision merging social,
environmental, and economic benefits for rural, forest-dependent
communities. While this dominant narrative has led to heavy
investment in experimental technologies and rural development, many
complexities and complications have emerged during implementation.
Forests as Fuel draws on extensive multi-sited ethnography to
ground the story of wood-based bioenergy in the biophysical,
economic, political, social, and cultural landscape of this region.
This book contextualizes energy issues within the history and
potential futures of the region's forested landscapes, highlighting
the impacts of varying perceptions of climate change and complex
racial dynamics. Eschewing simple answers, the authors illuminate
the points of friction that occur as competing visions of bioenergy
development confront each other to variously support, reshape,
contest, or reject bioenergy development. Building on recent
conceptual advances in studies of sociotechnical imaginaries,
environmental history, and energy justice, the authors present a
careful and nuanced analysis that can provide guidance for
promoting meaningful participation of local community members in
renewable energy policy and production while recognizing the
complex interplay of factors affecting its implementation in local
places.
This book presents current research in the political ecology of
indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical
areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving
studies on conservation of sacred natural sites (SNS), the book
elucidates the complexity of development scenarios within cultural
landscapes related to the appropriation of religion, environmental
change in indigenous territories, and new conservation management
approaches. Indigeneity and the Sacred explores how these struggles
for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical
landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reconstituted as
globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion
of indigeneity.
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