"Ordering the Wild": How Adaptive Management Is Used to Maintain Nature Like a Postcard.

Autor: Gelves-Gomez, Francisco1,2,3 (AUTHOR) francisco.gelvesgomez@utas.edu.au, Carter, Jennifer2 (AUTHOR), Beilin, Ruth4 (AUTHOR), Brincat, Shannon2 (AUTHOR)
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Zdroj: Society & Natural Resources. May2024, Vol. 37 Issue 5, p791-808. 18p.
Abstrakt: 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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