Tracking the Human-Wildlife-Conservation Nexus Across the HAS Landscape, in Society & Animals 26(2).6/30/2018
Co-editors Monica Ogra and Julie Urbanik published a special issue this summer titled, Tracking the Human-Wildlife-Conservation Nexus Across the Human-Animal Studies (HAS) Landscape, in Society and Animals 26(2). I was a pleasure to contribute, representing Animal Geography among seven other disciplines in the issue (advocacy groups, ecology, environmental studies, ethics, legal studies, science and technology studies (STS), and sociology).
My article is titled, Human-Tiger (Re)Negotiations: A Case Study from Sariska Tiger Reserve, India.
Monica and Julie said, "While issues affecting wildlife have been addressed broadly in the pages of Society & Animals, the journal had not yet focused a set of papers around how wildlife conservation (as a distinctly human practice and set of processes) continually shapes relationships between humans and this subset of nonhuman animals. Given that the recently publicized cases of Cecil the Lion’s death (and the death of one of his sons) by western trophy hunters in Zimbabwe, the killing of the captive silverback gorilla Harambe at an American zoo, the culling of “surplus” zoo lion cubs and giraffes and public autopsy performances in Denmark, and the relocation (or incarceration, depending on the speaker) of the wild tiger Ustad/T-24 following his fatal attack of a wildlife reserve staff member in India (just to name a few incidents in recent memory) all occurred at this nexus of humans-wildlife-conservation, we felt it was time to address this gap. Our goals with the special issue were to (1) bring wildlife conservation into the journal more prominently, and (2) promote a more intentionally interdisciplinary dialogue about wildlife conservation. To this end, we invited proposals for papers that would define “wildlife” and “wildlife conservation” in their disciplinary context and illustrate new ideas about human-wildlife-conservation via an illustrative, place-based case study. By taking this approach, we hoped to be able to showcase a wide-range of theoretical frameworks in this exciting arena of HAS." Read more about this special issue and it's contributors in the Animal Geography Special Group of the AAG, 2018 Newsletter. Comments are closed.
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