Participatory Natural Resource Management in Rural China: Making and Unmaking Environmental Narratives

Ju-Han Zoe Wang; Robert J Fisher; John Connell

doi:10.1111/apv.12210

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Participatory Natural Resource Management in Rural China: Making and Unmaking Environmental Narratives

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Participatory Natural Resource Management in Rural China: Making and Unmaking Environmental Narratives

Ju-Han Zoe Wang, Robert J Fisher and John Connell

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol.60(2), pp.205-219

2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12210

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Human Geography

Political Science

China

community community-based natural resource management (CBNRM)

Indigenous knowledge

narratives

Environmental and development discourses in China can be categorised into three narrative motifs framing human-nature relationships: peasant, indigenous, and community. Indigenous and community narratives have been widely adopted by environmental NGOs (eNGOs) in China in promoting community-based natural resource management projects, but there has been very limited critical research on such phenomena. Analysis of socio-economic change in two ethnic minority communities in Yunnan shows that neither narrative theme is fully internalised by the relevant communities. Instead narratives may be strategically modified or even rejected by local communities. This is due to different agendas being held by local communities and eNGOs, and two factors pertinent to rural China: the incompatibility of concepts of 'community' in Chinese and international contexts results in confusion, and a lack of recent territorial and cultural claims by rural communities since the collectivist era makes it difficult to construct the identity of a community. It remains challenging for eNGOs in China to advocate either community or indigenous narratives in contexts of rapid socio-economic change.

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Title: Participatory Natural Resource Management in Rural China: Making and Unmaking Environmental Narratives
Authors: Ju-Han Zoe Wang (Corresponding Author) - The University of Melbourne
Robert J Fisher (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
John Connell (Author) - The University of Sydney
Publication details: Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol.60(2), pp.205-219
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Date published: 2019
DOI: 10.1111/apv.12210
ISSN: 1360-7456
Organisation Unit: Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Research Institute
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450873102621
Output Type: Journal article

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