Week 8: Conservation

Reading and media

• Book: Choy, Timothy. 2011. Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong. [ch1-4, ch6]
• Media: Short film: Pangolin (about animal poaching)
• Media: Short film: Bhutan: Land of the Black Neck Crane
• Media: Short film: Lessons from Jeju - Freediving and Motherhood with Kimi Werner
• Media: Podcast – Saving Vietnam’s Wildlife: BBC Costing the Earth

Tuesday agenda

• ArcGIS StoryMap Feedback Session

Thursday agenda

• Book discussion

Assignments due

Recommended

• Recommended: Kim, Soyeun. 2012. “Contextualizing Other Political Ecologies: Japan’s Environmental Aid to the Philippines: Contextualizing Other Political Ecologies.” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 33 (1): 108–123.
• Recommended: To, Phuc Xuan, Sango Mahanty, and Wolfram H Dressler. 2013. “How Biodiversity Conservation Policy Accelerates Agrarian Differentiation: The Account of an Upland Village in Vietnam.” Conservation and Society 11 (2): 130.
• Recommended: Dewan, Camelia. 2020. “‘Climate Change as a Spice’: Brokering Environmental Knowledge in Bangladesh’s Development Industry.” Ethnos, June, 1–22.
• Recommended: Lowe, Celia. 2006. Wild Profusion: Biodiversity Conservation in an Indonesian Archipelago. Princeton University Press.