Merrill Baker-Medard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1574779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merrill Baker-Medard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merrill |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker-Medard |
| SIGNATURE | BAKER-MEDARD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlebury College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3724-8320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Collaborative care in environmental governance: Restoring Reciprocal Relations and Community Self-Determination
From communities rooted in place to transnational coalitions, this special feature applies concepts of collaborative care rooted in Indigenous knowledge systems to the field of environmental governance. We highlight restorative, liberatory practices rooted in caretaking ethics and reciprocal human-nature relations. Our approach also centers decision making by those most connected to a given resource and the sustenance it provides. Despite global …
Troubling the Waters: Gendered Dispossession, Violence, and Sea Cucumber Aquaculture in Madagascar
Poverty reduction and fisheries management in Madagascar have converged on the marine seascape, directed at an unassuming creature: the sea cucumber. In southwestern Madagascar, the enclosure of what was once a common pool resource has led to violence and new gendered seascapes. This form of blue grabbing, promoted by private companies and NGOs alike as an avenue to achieve conservation and develop coastal economies, has fundamentally restructure…
Gender equity and collaborative care in Madagascar's locally managed marine areas: Reflections on the Launch of a Fisherwomen's Network
Collaborative care refers to the collectively formed reciprocal relationships that emerge between the human and more-than-human world. Such care relations are more robust when individuals from different socioeconomic, gender, and political stratifications participate in decision making. This condition applies to gender equity in ocean conservation and fisheries governance practices. Despite their deep involvement in marine fisheries and their lab…
Classed conservation: Socio-economic drivers of participation in marine resource management
Fins and (Mis)fortunes: Managing shark populations for sustainability and food sovereignty
Of Whales and Dugongs: Examining the Rise of Colonial Conservation as Development in Madagascar's Marine History
This work explores how colonial marine conservation policy in Madagascar had the dual purpose of facilitating the expansion of capital and 'civilising' the way Malagasy fishers used marine resources. I analyse how the legacy of narratives that emerged to bolster state-led conservation intervention during the colonial period are still present in current conservation and development narratives, perpetuating in some cases the coloniser-colonised rel…
Conservation in a Crisis: Marine Resource Management Authority and Legitimacy During Political Instability in Madagascar
This study explores how the 2009 political crisis in Madagascar influenced local access to, and claims over, marine resources within marine protected areas. It focuses specifically on how different conservation actors constructed and maintained authority over each protected area. Surveys conducted in 2010 show how community-managed protected areas had a lower incidence of resource use rule infractions during the crisis than state-managed areas. D…
Technological (Mis)conceptions: Examining birth control as conservation in coastal Madagascar
Recognizing “reciprocal relations” to restore community access to land and water
Place-based communities are struggling to maintain their connections to land and water, including the social and cultural practices that are rooted in a particular landscape. In this paper, we consider possibilities for recentering environmental governance around reciprocal relations, or the mutual caretaking between people and place. We draw from existing scholarship on relational values and human-nature relations, which emphasize the intrinsic …
Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar
Millions of dollars are spent globally on biodiversity conservation each year. Despite prolonged financial and institutional support, biodiversity decline continues at a rapid rate. Catherine Corson’s Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar helps explain the complex social, political, economic, and discursive drivers of conservation failure in one of the world’s most treasured biodiversity hotspots: Madagascar.Corridor…
Gendering Marine Conservation: The Politics of Marine Protected Areas and Fisheries Access
Drawing on ethnographic case studies from Madagascar, this research shows that multiple marine conservation projects have institutionalized inequitable access to marine recourses along gendered lines. Despite discursive and institutional shifts toward more “collaborative” and “community-based” conservation programing, there is a deficiency of women’s nominal as well as effective participation in community management organizations. This research s…
Conflicting Treasures: Contrasting resource use governance in two artisanal gemstone mining sites in Madagascar
Conflict over property and resource rights is a common product of the convergence of biodiversity conservation and natural resource extraction and is especially pronounced in resource rich developing countries. Madagascar, a country well known for its unique and threatened biodiversity as well as its wealth of mineral resources is under great pressure to reconcile the conflict between these two treasures. This article, utilizing research conducte…
Recognizing “reciprocal relations” to restore community access to land and water
Place-based communities are struggling to maintain their connections to land and water, including the social and cultural practices that are rooted in a particular landscape. In this paper, we consider possibilities for recentering environmental governance around reciprocal relations, or the mutual caretaking between people and place. We draw from existing scholarship on relational values and human-nature relations, which emphasize the intrinsic …
Gendering Marine Conservation: The Politics of Marine Protected Areas and Fisheries Access
Drawing on ethnographic case studies from Madagascar, this research shows that multiple marine conservation projects have institutionalized inequitable access to marine recourses along gendered lines. Despite discursive and institutional shifts toward more “collaborative” and “community-based” conservation programing, there is a deficiency of women’s nominal as well as effective participation in community management organizations. This research s…
Technological (Mis)conceptions: Examining birth control as conservation in coastal Madagascar
Troubling the Waters: Gendered Dispossession, Violence, and Sea Cucumber Aquaculture in Madagascar
Poverty reduction and fisheries management in Madagascar have converged on the marine seascape, directed at an unassuming creature: the sea cucumber. In southwestern Madagascar, the enclosure of what was once a common pool resource has led to violence and new gendered seascapes. This form of blue grabbing, promoted by private companies and NGOs alike as an avenue to achieve conservation and develop coastal economies, has fundamentally restructure…
Conflicting Treasures: Contrasting resource use governance in two artisanal gemstone mining sites in Madagascar
Conflict over property and resource rights is a common product of the convergence of biodiversity conservation and natural resource extraction and is especially pronounced in resource rich developing countries. Madagascar, a country well known for its unique and threatened biodiversity as well as its wealth of mineral resources is under great pressure to reconcile the conflict between these two treasures. This article, utilizing research conducte…
Conflicting Treasures: Contrasting resource use governance in two artisanal gemstone mining sites in Madagascar
Conflict over property and resource rights is a common product of the convergence of biodiversity conservation and natural resource extraction and is especially pronounced in resource rich developing countries. Madagascar, a country well known for its unique and threatened biodiversity as well as its wealth of mineral resources is under great pressure to reconcile the conflict between these two treasures. This article, utilizing research conducte…
Gendering Marine Conservation: The Politics of Marine Protected Areas and Fisheries Access
Drawing on ethnographic case studies from Madagascar, this research shows that multiple marine conservation projects have institutionalized inequitable access to marine recourses along gendered lines. Despite discursive and institutional shifts toward more “collaborative” and “community-based” conservation programing, there is a deficiency of women’s nominal as well as effective participation in community management organizations. This research s…
Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar
Millions of dollars are spent globally on biodiversity conservation each year. Despite prolonged financial and institutional support, biodiversity decline continues at a rapid rate. Catherine Corson’s Corridors of Power: The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar helps explain the complex social, political, economic, and discursive drivers of conservation failure in one of the world’s most treasured biodiversity hotspots: Madagascar.Corridor…
Conservation in a Crisis: Marine Resource Management Authority and Legitimacy During Political Instability in Madagascar
This study explores how the 2009 political crisis in Madagascar influenced local access to, and claims over, marine resources within marine protected areas. It focuses specifically on how different conservation actors constructed and maintained authority over each protected area. Surveys conducted in 2010 show how community-managed protected areas had a lower incidence of resource use rule infractions during the crisis than state-managed areas. D…
Technological (Mis)conceptions: Examining birth control as conservation in coastal Madagascar
Recognizing “reciprocal relations” to restore community access to land and water
Place-based communities are struggling to maintain their connections to land and water, including the social and cultural practices that are rooted in a particular landscape. In this paper, we consider possibilities for recentering environmental governance around reciprocal relations, or the mutual caretaking between people and place. We draw from existing scholarship on relational values and human-nature relations, which emphasize the intrinsic …
Fins and (Mis)fortunes: Managing shark populations for sustainability and food sovereignty
Of Whales and Dugongs: Examining the Rise of Colonial Conservation as Development in Madagascar's Marine History
This work explores how colonial marine conservation policy in Madagascar had the dual purpose of facilitating the expansion of capital and 'civilising' the way Malagasy fishers used marine resources. I analyse how the legacy of narratives that emerged to bolster state-led conservation intervention during the colonial period are still present in current conservation and development narratives, perpetuating in some cases the coloniser-colonised rel…
Classed conservation: Socio-economic drivers of participation in marine resource management
Troubling the Waters: Gendered Dispossession, Violence, and Sea Cucumber Aquaculture in Madagascar
Poverty reduction and fisheries management in Madagascar have converged on the marine seascape, directed at an unassuming creature: the sea cucumber. In southwestern Madagascar, the enclosure of what was once a common pool resource has led to violence and new gendered seascapes. This form of blue grabbing, promoted by private companies and NGOs alike as an avenue to achieve conservation and develop coastal economies, has fundamentally restructure…
Gender equity and collaborative care in Madagascar's locally managed marine areas: Reflections on the Launch of a Fisherwomen's Network
Collaborative care refers to the collectively formed reciprocal relationships that emerge between the human and more-than-human world. Such care relations are more robust when individuals from different socioeconomic, gender, and political stratifications participate in decision making. This condition applies to gender equity in ocean conservation and fisheries governance practices. Despite their deep involvement in marine fisheries and their lab…
Collaborative care in environmental governance: Restoring Reciprocal Relations and Community Self-Determination
From communities rooted in place to transnational coalitions, this special feature applies concepts of collaborative care rooted in Indigenous knowledge systems to the field of environmental governance. We highlight restorative, liberatory practices rooted in caretaking ethics and reciprocal human-nature relations. Our approach also centers decision making by those most connected to a given resource and the sustenance it provides. Despite global …
Political science (11 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Marine conservation (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (5 works)