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SUMMARY:Assembling Conservation as Territoriality in Timor-Leste.  - Dr Al
 exander Cullen\, Lecturer in Political Ecology\, Geography Department\, Un
 iversity of Cambridge.
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DTEND:20190226T140000Z
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CONTACT:Lucy Goodman
DESCRIPTION:Political ecology research has been attentive in illuminating 
 the processes of protected area creation as a conduit of state territorial
 isation. Practices of physical and institutional discipline by the state a
 nd related conservation partners are oft entangled in the production of sp
 atial legitimacies of control. However\, arguably more important in such p
 rocesses is the effectual articulation of rights to landscape\, which here
  is framed through sovereign conservation imperatives and development. Few
  studies have critically detailed how the variegated components of environ
 mental knowledges are (co)-produced and assembled so as to scaffold eco-po
 litical discourses of state authority over the national margins.\nThis pap
 er attempts this by examining the establishment of Timor-Leste’s first n
 ational park in the forests that previously were ground zero for guerrilla
  resistance against Indonesian occupation.  It highlights the importance o
 f narrative and discourse in a post-conflict arena where formalised govern
 ance is weak and resource funding low. The national park is shown to be a 
 complex site where histories of violence\, livelihoods\, national identity
  and neoliberal development intersect with new “eco-logical” reasoning
 . However\, by unpacking the different discursive components of Timorese c
 onservation control\, it is shown that they conceal serious contradictions
  which work to undo the spatial authority state conservation seeks to make
 . 
LOCATION:Hardy Building 101 (first floor)\, Downing Site\, Cambridge
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