Week 13: Political ecology - conservation and science

Class agenda

• Grant discussion: Draft Group B
• Lectures
• Reading discussion

Reading

• Tsing, A., Satsuka, S. and Matsutake Worlds Research Group, 2008. Diverging understandings of forest management in matsutake science. Economic Botany, 62, pp.244-253.
• Swanson, H.A., 2019. An unexpected politics of population: salmon counting, science, and advocacy in the Columbia River Basin. Current Anthropology, 60(S20), pp.S272-S285.
• West, P., Igoe, J. and Brockington, D., 2006. Parks and Peoples: The Social Impact of Protected Areas. Annu. Rev. Anthropol, 35, pp.251-77.
• Escobar, A., 2006. Difference and Conflict in the Struggle Over Natural Resources: A political ecology framework. Development, 49(3), pp.6-13.
• Brosius, J.P., 2006. Common ground between anthropology and conservation biology. Conservation biology, 20(3), pp.683-685.

Media

• Radiolab: Galapagos
• Outside/In: Fortress Conservation

Recommended

• Vaughn 2017; Escobar 1998; Brockington and Igoe 2006; Watts and Peet 2004; Ayelazuno and Mawuko-Yevugah 2019; Orlove and Brush 1996

Assignments due for class discussion

Draft Group B