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SUMMARY:Transforming global “win-win” discourse - Josie Chambers\, Uni
 versity of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Karen Wong
DESCRIPTION:Transforming global “win-win” discourse\n\nConservation pr
 ojects increasingly employ particular “win-win” discourses to justify 
 their work despite widespread empirical accounts of complex trade-offs and
  conflicts at local sites. Drawing on political ecology and social science
  concepts and literature\, and detailed empirical fieldwork in northeast P
 eru\, I demonstrate how projects framed as “win-wins” for people and n
 ature are built around narratives that frame challenges\, solutions and me
 asures of success in internally coherent ways. These narratives are set wi
 thin globally circulating discourses through which they are developed\, st
 rengthened and replicated as stories of “success”\, even in the absenc
 e of any evidence that they have achieved their intended objectives on the
  ground in Peru. The result is the accumulation of global capital for a re
 latively narrow conservation and development problem-solution framework th
 at fundamentally does not question power relations of the broader politica
 l economy\, and at the same time\, guarantees the continued (re)production
  of contradictory project effects. To explore possibilities for more trans
 formative discourse\, politics and models for socio-ecological governance\
 , I attempt to first map out the power relations which sustain these domin
 ant “win-win” discourses and linked intervention models\, and then con
 sider potential leverage points to disrupt and reconfigure these power rel
 ations.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Geography
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