عنوان

Biodiversity and Sacred Sites:

شماره

LA129494

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Biodiversity and Sacred Sites:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Vernacular Conservation Practices in Northwest Yunnan, China

نام نخستين پديدآور

Christopher Hakkenberg

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Biodiversity conservation strategies around the world have been criticized when the goals of international organizations clash with the needs and traditions of local people. While the characterization of global conservation initiatives as a clash between scientifically-informed environmental policies and indigenous knowledge may retain discursive value in explaining the interaction of contending epistemologies, it is nonetheless an over-simplification of a dynamic, complicated and sometimes opaque and contradictory process. This paper sheds light on some of the conservation programs in southwest China as a case where these seemingly distinct knowledge regimes lie not in stark contrast, but in fact coexist within a localized discourse on biological and cultural diversity. In the example of the sacred site tradition of northwest Yunnan, disparate knowledge regimes have been negotiated and reinterpreted at the local, and even individual level to form dynamic and unique motivations for a conservation ethic. In this negotiation of indigenous and global epistemologies, classic distinctions separating global and local interests prove erroneous, or at the very least, unnecessary. Biodiversity conservation strategies around the world have been criticized when the goals of international organizations clash with the needs and traditions of local people. While the characterization of global conservation initiatives as a clash between scientifically-informed environmental policies and indigenous knowledge may retain discursive value in explaining the interaction of contending epistemologies, it is nonetheless an over-simplification of a dynamic, complicated and sometimes opaque and contradictory process. This paper sheds light on some of the conservation programs in southwest China as a case where these seemingly distinct knowledge regimes lie not in stark contrast, but in fact coexist within a localized discourse on biological and cultural diversity. In the example of the sacred site tradition of northwest Yunnan, disparate knowledge regimes have been negotiated and reinterpreted at the local, and even individual level to form dynamic and unique motivations for a conservation ethic. In this negotiation of indigenous and global epistemologies, classic distinctions separating global and local interests prove erroneous, or at the very least, unnecessary.

تاريخ نشر

2008

توصيف ظاهري

74-90

عنوان

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

شماره جلد

12/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5357

اصطلاح موضوعی

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

اصطلاح موضوعی

CHINA

اصطلاح موضوعی

GLOBALIZATION

اصطلاح موضوعی

INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE

اصطلاح موضوعی

NORTHWEST YUNNAN

اصطلاح موضوعی

SACRED GEOGRAPHY

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Christopher Hakkenberg

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156853508X276842

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y