Transformative Politics of Nature

Overcoming Barriers to Conservation in Canada

Andrea Olive, Chance Finegan, Karen F. Beazley (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4949-7 (ISBN)

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Transformative Politics of Nature examines political barriers to land and wildlife conservation and presents possible transformative pathways forward that address both proximate and fundamental factors from Western and Indigenous perspectives.

Transformative Politics of Nature highlights the most significant barriers to conservation in Canada and discusses strategies to confront and overcome them. Featuring contributions from academics as well as practitioners, the volume brings together the perspectives of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts on land and wildlife conservation, in a way that honours and respects all peoples and nature.

Contributors provide insights that enhance understanding of key barriers, important actors, and strategies for shaping policy at multiple levels of government across Canada. The chapters engage academics, environmental conservation organizations, and Indigenous communities in dialogues and explorations of the politics of wildlife conservation. They address broad and interrelated themes, organized into three parts: barriers to conservation, transformation through reconciliation, and transformation through policy and governance.

Taken together, the essays demonstrate the need for increased social-political awareness of biodiversity and conservation in Canada, enhanced wildlife conservation collaborative networks, and increased scholarly attention to the principles, policies, and practices of maintaining and restoring nature for the benefit of all peoples, species, and ecologies. Transformative Politics of Nature presents a vision of profound change in the way humans relate to each other and with the natural world.

Andrea Olive is a professor in the Department of Geography, Geomatics, and Environment and the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Chance Finegan was most recently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Karen F. Beazley is a professor emeritus in the School for Resource and Environmental Studies at Dalhousie University.

List of Tables
List of Figures

Part A: Ceremony and Introduction

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1. From Politics to Transformative Politics: Wildlife and Species at Risk Policy in Canada
Beazley, Olive, and Finegan

Introducing Disruptions
Finegan

Part B: Barriers to Conservation in Canada

2. A Pathological Examination of Conservation Failure in Canada
Lemieux, Groulx, Swerdfager, and Hagerman

3. Who Should Govern Wildlife? Examining Attitudes across the Country
Williamson, Lischka, Olive, Pittman, and Ford

4. In a Rut: Barriers to Caribou Recovery
Boan and Plotkin

5. Enacting a Reciprocal Ethic of Care: (Finally) Fulfilling Treaty Obligations
McDermott and Roth

Disrupting Dominant Narratives for a Mainstream Conservation Issue: A Case Study on “Saving the Bees”
Colla

The Role of National Parks in Disrupting Heritage Interpretation on Turtle Island
Finegan

Part C: Transformation through Values

6. Reconciliation or Apiksitaultimik? Indigenous Relationality for Conservation
Pictou

7. “Etuaptmumk”/Two-Eyed Seeing and Reconciliation with Earth
McGregor, Popp, Reid, Marshall, Miller, and Sritharan

8. Beacons of Teaching
Young

Indigenous Knowledge as a Disruption to State-Led Conservation
Myhal

The Misipawistik Cree Nation kanawenihcikew Guardians Program
Cook

Part D: Transformation through Actions

9. Transforming University Curriculum and Student Experiences through Collaboration and Land-Based Learning
Zurba, Hache, Doucette, and Graham

10. Ecological Networks and Corridors in the Context of Global Initiatives
Hilty and Woodley

11. The Imperative for Transformative Change to Address Biodiversity Loss in Canada
Ray

Conservation Bright Spots: Focusing on Solutions Instead of Reacting to Problems
Frei

Disrupting Current Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation through Innovative Knowledge Mobilization
Nguyen

Part E: Conclusion and Ceremony

12. Concluding Remarks: Achieving Transformative Change: Conservation in Canada
Olive and Beazley

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Author Biographies

Erscheinungsdatum	28.12.2023
Zusatzinfo	13 b&w figures, 11 b&w tables
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-4875-4949-0 / 1487549490
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-4949-7 / 9781487549497
Zustand	Neuware