The Promise of the Discourse of the Sacred for Conservation (and its Limits)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5797015
AutoresKristina Tiedje (Equinox (United States), autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen1
Número3
Páginas326-339
Fecha de publicación2008-01-25
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-4907 • E-ISSN: 1749-4915
EditorialEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/jsrnc.v1i3.326
OpenAlexW2032895695
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7

Popular concepts of 'nature as sacred'-particularly when intentionally borrowed from or rhetorically/conceptually connected to indigenous world views-may be beneficial for conservation-but they also carry dangers. The rhetoric of the sacred raises questions of power when deployed in someone's interest, especially, but not only, with regard to indigenous peoples. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico, this article analyzes the human dimensions of conservation with regard to the significance of the sacred in recent conservation theory. I focus on the ways in which indigenous views of the sacred, and idealized notions of sacredness and spirituality, are mobilized for nature conservation, and on the role power asymmetry plays in disputes over nature, and with regard to places considered sacred in both indigenous and non-indigenous areas

Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Indigenous · Political science · Power (physics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Spirituality · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Ecology