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Indigenous
Peoples and Protected Areas: Conservation Through
Self-Determination
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Las Vegas, Nevada; March 22-27,
2009
Co-sponsored by the Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group, the
Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Specialty Group, and
appropriate regional specialty groups
Session(s) organized and chaired by Stan Stevens, Associate
Professor of Geography, Department of Geosciences, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst 01003
Contact:
sstevens@geo.umass.edu
Deadline to contact session chair with abstract: October 9, 2008
Conference registration and abstract deadline: October 16, 2008
Papers are invited for an AAG session on the interwoven politics
and political ecologies of Indigenous rights and protected
area-based conservation. This is the sixth consecutive
year that the Indigenous Specialty Group has sponsored and
organized such sessions at the AAG annual meetings. These
sessions provide a continuing venue at the AAG for discussion of
conservation, difference, and social justice and for analyses of
the diverse political ecologies created by the establishment of
protected areas by Indigenous peoples, states, and NGOs in
Indigenous peoples' territories. Participants in this year's
session are invited to join previous participants in
contributing theoretical and case study chapters to an edited
book. Both theoretical and case study contributions are welcome.
The organizer is particularly interested in papers on the
following topics:
I. New Paradigm Protected Areas. Establishment, operation, and
effectiveness of inclusive, participatory, new paradigm
protected areas. These may include diverse types of protected
areas in which Indigenous peoples' land use and participation in
management is recognized.
II. Critiques of Old Paradigm Protected Areas. Analyses of
coercively imposed exclusionary "wilderness" or
Yellowstone-model protected areas and "fortress conservation"
from the standpoints of violations of human/indigenous rights;
displacement; loss of access to and/or management of natural
resources, cultural resources, and cultural sites; accompanying
changes in land/water use and management; and consequent
ecological change.
III. "Hand-backs," "Hand overs," and other Reconciliation and
Restitution. Case studies of redress, compensation, or
restitution for past injustices against Indigenous peoples
caused by the creation or management of protected areas.
IV. False Representations of "Progressive" Protected Areas.
Analyses of protected areas which have inappropriately
represented as participatory and community-based by states,
intergovernmental agencies, or NGOs .
V. Rights-Based Conservation. Analyses of protected area
governance and management in cases where this is explicitly
based on recognition of constitutional, human, and/or Indigenous
Rights.
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