Communities and Conservation Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management

by Brosius, Peter J.; Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt; Zerner, Charles; Alcorn, Janis; Borrini-Feyerabend, Grazia; Brosius, J Peter; Colchester, Marcus; Coward, Walter; Fortmann, Louise; Gatmaytan, Augusto B.; Hafild, Emmy; Li, Tania; Lynch, Owen; Murphree, Marshall;

• ISBN13: 9780759105058
• ISBN10: 0759105057
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-21
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

A group of distinguished environmentalists analyze and advocate for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). They offer an overview of this transnational movement and its links between environmental management and social justice agendas. This book will be valuable to instructors, practitioners, and activists in environmental anthropology, justice, and policy, in cultural geography, political ecology, indigenous rights, conservation biology, and community-based cultural resource management.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction. Raising Questions about Communities and Conservation	1	(36)
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, J. Peter Brosius, and Charles Zerner
Part I: Mobilizations and Models
A. Institutional Mandates
1 Dances around the Fire: Conservation Organizations and Community-Based Natural Resource Management	37	(32)
Janis B. Alcorn
2 Participatory Democracy in Natural Resource Management: A"Columbus's Egg"?	69	(22)
Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, with Christopher B. Tarnowski
3 Building Models of Community-Based Natural Resource Management: A Personal Narrative	91	(14)
E. Walter Coward
B. Defining Community in National and Transnational Contexts
4 Congruent Objectives, Competing Interests, and Strategic Compromise: Concept and Process in the Evolution of Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE, 1984-1996	105	(44)
Marshall W. Murphree
5 Of Diffusion and Context: The Bubbling Up of Community- Based Resource Management in Mozambique in the 1990's	149	(28)
Kenneth Wilson
6 Model, Panacea, or Exception? Contextualizing CAMPFIRE and Related Programs in Africa	177	(18)
Roderick P. Neumann
7 What We Need Is a Community Bambi: The Perils and Possibilities of Powerful Symbols	195	(12)
Louise Fortmann
C. Empowerment or Coercion?
8 Community, Forestry, and Conditionality in The Gambia	207	(24)
Richard Schroeder
9 Can David and Goliath Have a Happy Marriage? The Machiguenga People and the Camisea Gas Project in the Peruvian Amazon	231	(26)
Richard Chase Smith
10 Social Movements, Community-Based Natural Resource Management, and the Struggle for Democracy: Experiences from Indonesia	257	(14)
Emmy Hafild
Part II: Stealing the Master's Tools: Mapping and Law in Community-Based Natural Resource Management
A. Mapping against Power
11 Maps, Power, and the Defense of Territory: The Upper Mazaruni Land Claim in Guyana	271	(34)
Marcus Colchester
12 Ye'kuana Mapping Project	305	(22)
Peter Poole
13 Maps as Power Tools: Locating Communities in Space or Situating People and Ecologies in Place?	327	(36)
Dianne Rocheleau
14 Mapping as a Tool for Community Organizing against Power: A Moluccas Experience	363	(28)
Roem Topatimasang
B. Legal Strategies for the Disenfranchised
15 Concepts and Strategies for Promoting Legal Recognition of Community-Based Property Rights: Insights from the Philippines and Other Nations	391	(36)
Owen J. Lynch
16 Engaging Simplifications: Community-Based Natural Resource Management, Market Processes, and State Agendas in Upland Southeast Asia	427	(32)
Tania Li
17 Advocacy as Translation: Notes on the Philippine Experience	459	(18)
Augusto B. Gatmaytan
Index	477	(6)
About the Contributors	483