Knowledges that travel : indigenous-western expertise and the "nature" of wildlife management in the Alaskan boreal forest
Title:
Knowledges that travel : indigenous-western expertise and the "nature" of wildlife management in the Alaskan boreal forest
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by Annette Watson.
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Publication Information:
2007.
Physical Description:
viii, 288 leaves : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
General Note:
"August 2007."
Dissertaton Note:
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 2007.
Abstract:
"In partnership with the community of Huslia, Alaska, I analyzed both the practices of wildlife biology and Koyukon traditional management practices for two species whose distributions include the Koyukuk-Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge Complex: moose (Alces alces gigas) and greater white-fronted geese (Anser albifrons frontalis). Both species are important for subsistence and sport hunting, but their ranges and migrations necessitate different scales and structures of management. Moose require state-wide cooperation, while geese also require national and international scales of management. Using ethnographies of scientific practice, observation, and semi-structured interviews, I explain how different groups of humans (subsistence hunters, wildlife biologists, and non-local hunters) conceptualize how they ecologically interact with non-humans. Then I articulate what the effects of these environmental ethics are upon the local ecology, upon knowledge production--and how the differences in ethical preferences become reflected in management choices and policy debates. In this way I describe how knowledge of non-humans are being constructed in action and how it 'travels, ' how management happens--but how it misunderstands the 'posthumanist' philosophy that is foundational to IK"--Leaf ii.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 270-288).
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Contents:
Introduction: How do we justly manage the environment? -- They're here, I can feel them: the epistemic spaces of indigenous and western knowledges -- Like bad luck: the field science of counting geese and excluding experts -- What is 'good' information? -- But the moose 'give themselves': contesting democracy and natural resource management -- What is the 'matter' with scale? -- Conclusion: difference and possibilities -- Appendix A: Establishing AMBCC -- Appendix B: Methods -- Works cited.