Thinking Ecographically

Places, Ecographers, and Environmentalism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15445321
AutoresJamon Alex Halvaksz (0000-0002-9053-254X, autor de correspondencia), Heather Young-Leslie (0000-0001-7752-7968), Heather E Young-Leslie
Año2008
Volumen3
Número2
Páginas183-205
Fecha de publicación2008-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNature and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1558-6073 • E-ISSN: 1558-5468
EditorialBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/nc.2008.030203
OpenAlexW2055746419
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas32

The literature on environment-animal-human relations, place, and space, tends to emphasize cultural differences between global interests and local environmental practices. While this literature contributes substantially to our understanding of resource management, traditional ecological knowledge, and environmental protection, the work of key persons imbricated in both global and local positions has been elided. In this article, we propose a theory of “ecographers” as individuals particularly positioned to relate an indigenous epistemology of the local environment with reference to traditional and introduced forms of knowledge, practice, and uses of places, spaces, and inter-species relationships. We ground our analysis in ethnographic research among two Pacific communities, but draw parallels with individuals from varied ethnographic and environmental settings. This new concept offers a powerful cross-cultural approach to ecological strategizing relationships; one grounded by local yet globally and historically inflected agents of the present

Common ground · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Ethnography · Indigenous · Parallels · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Traditional knowledge · Anthropology · Communication · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Ecology