Journal article
"Ordering the Wild": How Adaptive Management Is Used to Maintain Nature Like a Postcard
Society & Natural Resources, Vol.37(5), pp.791-808
2024
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.
Details
- Title
- "Ordering the Wild": How Adaptive Management Is Used to Maintain Nature Like a Postcard
- Authors
- Francisco Gelves-Gomez (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyJennifer Carter (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyRuth Beilin (Author) - University of MelbourneShannon Brincat (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Publication details
- Society & Natural Resources, Vol.37(5), pp.791-808
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc.
- DOI
- 10.1080/08941920.2023.2172241
- ISSN
- 1521-0723
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Research Institute; Sustainability Research Centre; Tropical Forests & People Research Centre; School of Law and Society; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99706796802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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