Paolo Bocci
Biographic Data
| ID | 163129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paolo Bocci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Bocci |
| SIGNATURE | BOCCI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1181-8196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rooting,’ For Change: The Role of Culture Beyond Resilience and Adaptation
Confronted with concerns about rising biodiversity loss and pollution, conservation on the Galápagos has recently moved away from the goal of preserving pristine ecosystems to managing a complex socio-ecological system (SES). While acknowledging the positive aspects of this model, this article shows that the conceptualisation of “the human factor” in resilient SESs often limits local participation to compliance to existing plans of conservation. …
Utopian Conservation: Scientific Humanism, Evolution, and Island Imaginaries on the Galápagos Islands
In 1959, the Charles Darwin Station and the Galápagos National Park were established, formally inaugurating conservation on the archipelago. In the same year, a utopian colony from the United States arrived. Whereas scholars have dismissed the latter and focused on the former, this essay unveils the science-inspired utopianism common to both enterprises. Investing science with the exclusive role of producing all knowledge and steering politics, l…
Planting the Seeds of the Future: Eschatological Environmentalism in the Time of the Anthropocene
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this essay examines how the local Jehovah's Witnesses' response to the current ecological crisis on the Galápagos Islands has produced a distinct form of religious environmentalism. Specifically, I argue that the Jehovah's Witnesses' vision of the ultimate future informs action rather than despair-contrary to what is often assumed about millenarian beliefs. This essay joins voices in Christian feminist and eco-t…
Tangles of Care: Killing Goats to Save Tortoises on the Galápagos Islands
If calls to care for other species multiply in a time of global and local environmental crisis, this article demonstrates that caring practices are not always as benevolent or irenic as imagined. To save endemic tortoises from the menace of extinction, Proyecto Isabela killed more than two hundred thousand goats on the Galápagos Islands in the largest mammal eradication campaign in the world. While anthropologists have looked at human engagements…
Tangles of Care: Killing Goats to Save Tortoises on the Galápagos Islands
If calls to care for other species multiply in a time of global and local environmental crisis, this article demonstrates that caring practices are not always as benevolent or irenic as imagined. To save endemic tortoises from the menace of extinction, Proyecto Isabela killed more than two hundred thousand goats on the Galápagos Islands in the largest mammal eradication campaign in the world. While anthropologists have looked at human engagements…
Planting the Seeds of the Future: Eschatological Environmentalism in the Time of the Anthropocene
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this essay examines how the local Jehovah's Witnesses' response to the current ecological crisis on the Galápagos Islands has produced a distinct form of religious environmentalism. Specifically, I argue that the Jehovah's Witnesses' vision of the ultimate future informs action rather than despair-contrary to what is often assumed about millenarian beliefs. This essay joins voices in Christian feminist and eco-t…
Tangles of Care: Killing Goats to Save Tortoises on the Galápagos Islands
If calls to care for other species multiply in a time of global and local environmental crisis, this article demonstrates that caring practices are not always as benevolent or irenic as imagined. To save endemic tortoises from the menace of extinction, Proyecto Isabela killed more than two hundred thousand goats on the Galápagos Islands in the largest mammal eradication campaign in the world. While anthropologists have looked at human engagements…
Planting the Seeds of the Future: Eschatological Environmentalism in the Time of the Anthropocene
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this essay examines how the local Jehovah's Witnesses' response to the current ecological crisis on the Galápagos Islands has produced a distinct form of religious environmentalism. Specifically, I argue that the Jehovah's Witnesses' vision of the ultimate future informs action rather than despair-contrary to what is often assumed about millenarian beliefs. This essay joins voices in Christian feminist and eco-t…
Utopian Conservation: Scientific Humanism, Evolution, and Island Imaginaries on the Galápagos Islands
In 1959, the Charles Darwin Station and the Galápagos National Park were established, formally inaugurating conservation on the archipelago. In the same year, a utopian colony from the United States arrived. Whereas scholars have dismissed the latter and focused on the former, this essay unveils the science-inspired utopianism common to both enterprises. Investing science with the exclusive role of producing all knowledge and steering politics, l…
Rooting,’ For Change: The Role of Culture Beyond Resilience and Adaptation
Confronted with concerns about rising biodiversity loss and pollution, conservation on the Galápagos has recently moved away from the goal of preserving pristine ecosystems to managing a complex socio-ecological system (SES). While acknowledging the positive aspects of this model, this article shows that the conceptualisation of “the human factor” in resilient SESs often limits local participation to compliance to existing plans of conservation. …
Environmental ethics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Anthropocene (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)