1. "Ordering the Wild": How Adaptive Management Is Used to Maintain Nature Like a Postcard.
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Gelves-Gomez, Francisco, Carter, Jennifer, Beilin, Ruth, and Brincat, Shannon
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POSTCARDS , *PROTECTED areas , *NATURE conservation , *BIODIVERSITY conservation , *PROTECTIONISM , *EMPIRICAL research - Abstract
In this paper we examine and critique adaptive management (AM) practices for protected areas (PAs), in pursuit of practices that can account for more-than-human relations. Engaging with empirical research from Australian PAs, we reflect on the formation of PAs as "exceptional places" where Nature is implicitly/explicitly to be controlled. We find that AM practices harness the spatial and temporal characteristics of the PAs to deliberatively construct a static and timeless scene, creating a particular vision of Nature. This metaphoric vision is captured "like a postcard." It reinforces and justifies static protectionism as Nature conservation, arraigning a series of material objects that are meant to assist with maintaining that image: that "reality." Using sentipensar as an exemplar, we explore and highlight relational and everchanging human-nonhuman engagements to contest the ontological dimensions of a static Nature and ideas of control and power associated with the binaries of Nature and culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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