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Addresses the debates surrounding the role of scientific, local and indigenous knowledge and participation in sustainable development initiatives
Sheds light on the local spaces of power and knowledge of environmental management and community development projects
Illustrates the potential of strategies for cultural hybridity that are advocated as necessary for increased knowledge sharing and synergy for more sustainable environmental governance outcomes
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Foundations for a New Conceptual Framework for Cultural Hybridity
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Edge Politics in Action
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Local Voices in the Landscape
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Knowledge Networks Across the Landscape
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Strategies for Cultural Hybridity
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About this book
This book highlights the importance of diversity in overcoming issues of social and environmental degradation. It presents conceptual and practical strategies to celebrate local and Indigenous knowledge for improved community development and environmental management.
David Harvey has proclaimed, “The geography we make must be a peoples’ geography.” This clarion call challenges geographers around the world to consider the power and potential of geographic knowledge as the basis for social action – a call this book answers, providing readers the theoretical and conceptual tools needed to understand the social world and empowering them to mobilize social change.
The author uses empirical case studies of two environmental management and community development projects to document how knowledge generation is “essentially locally situated and socially derived.” In doing so she charts a path for moving beyond what Vandana Shiva so aptly describes as “monocultures of the mind.” The book argues that local and Indigenous knowledge must not be seen in opposition to scientific knowledge, as none of these knowledge traditions hold all the answers to localized socio-environmental problems. Rather, as the author explores through a set of processes and strategies to enable, support and celebrate ‘cultural hybridity’ at the local environmental governance scale, these respective knowledge systems can learn to speak to each other. Such dialogue has the potential to support more sustainable outcomes at multiple environmental governance locales.
This book will be of interest to everyone involved in environmental policy, planning or politics, and for those who want to make this planet a more sustainable and just place.
Keywords
- Community development projects
- Contemporary human geography
- Cultural interpretations of the Australian landscape
- Ecological sustainability
- Engaging the third cultural space
- Environmental governance
- Environmental management
- Human Geography
- Knowledge
- Resource management policy
- Social interpretations of the Australian landscape
Authors and Affiliations
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CSIRO (Adaptive Social and Economic Systems Program), Dutton Park, Australia
Kirsten Maclean
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural Hybridity and the Environment
Book Subtitle: Strategies to celebrate local and Indigenous knowledge
Authors: Kirsten Maclean
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-323-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-322-4Published: 09 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1213-6Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-323-1Published: 07 February 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 215
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Sciences, general