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SUMMARY:Plotting the Coloniality of Conservation - reading discussion  - V
 ictoria Maguire-Rajpaul\, Ariadne Collins\, Judith Krauss
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CONTACT:Fleur Nash
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary and market-based conservation policies\, construc
 ted as rational\, neutral and apolitical\, are being pursued around the wo
 rld in the aim of staving off multiple\, unfolding and overlapping environ
 mental crises. However\, the substantial body of research that examines th
 e dominance of neoliberal environmental policies has paid relatively littl
 e attention to how colonial legacies interact with these contemporary and 
 market-based conservation policies enacted in the Global South. It is only
  recently that critical scholars have begun to demonstrate how colonial le
 gacies interact with market-based conservation policies in ways that incre
 ase their risk of failure\, deepen on-the-ground inequalities and cement g
 lobal injustices. In this discussion\, we take further this emerging body 
 of work by showing how contemporary\,market-based conservation initiatives
  extend the temporalities and geographies of colonialism\, undergird long-
 standing hegemonies and perpetuate exploitative power relations in the gov
 erning of nature-society relations\, particularly in the Global South. Ref
 lecting on ethnographic insights from six different field sites across cou
 ntries of the Global South\, we argue that decolonization is an important 
 and necessary step in confronting some of the major weaknesses of contempo
 rary conservation and the wider socio-ecological crisis itself. We conclud
 e by briefly outlining what decolonizing conservation might entail.
LOCATION:Delivered online via Zoom
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