Robin Roth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Roth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Roth |
| SIGNATURE | ROTH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 287 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Catalysing Transformative Change in Conservation: Lessons Learned From a Decolonial Conservation Partnership
Conservation faces a legitimacy crisis—inadequately protecting nature while marginalising the very people and societies shown to be most successful at conserving nature. Scholars and the global community are increasingly recognising that respecting, protecting, and elevating Indigenous land and water governance contributes to greater outcomes for people and nature. In the face of the dual climate and biodiversity crises, the challenge and the opp…
Protected areas and extractive hegemony: A case study of marine protected areas in the Qikiqtani (Baffin Island) region of Nunavut, Canada
Wilderness” revisited: Is Canadian park management moving beyond the “wilderness” ethic
This paper questions whether the rescaling of conservation practice in Canada to include local and Indigenous communities, NGOs, and private market‐based actors represents a move away from wilderness‐thinking in conservation, and what implications this might have for the future of conservation in Canada. We explore the links between Cronon's “wilderness” ethic and coloniality, racism/sexism/classism, and political economy, and the extent to which…
Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation
Despite broad recognition of the value of social sciences and increasingly vocal calls for better engagement with the human element of conservation, the conservation social sciences remain misunderstood and underutilized in practice. The conservation social sciences can provide unique and important contributions to society's understanding of the relationships between humans and nature and to improving conservation practice and outcomes. There are…
Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation
It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain that better understanding. Yet, a lack of awareness of the scope and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences impedes the conservation community's effective engagement with the human dimension…
Agrarian Change and Ethnic Politics: Restructuring of Hmong and Shan Labour and Agricultural Production inNorthernThailand
Ethnic politics are an important, but under-examined, dynamic in the restructuring of agrarian labour. This paper examines how the discursive construction of ethnic identity has facilitated the particular form of agrarian intensification and labour restructuring under way in the uplands ofThailand. Agricultural intensification, followed by the promotion of 'safe' and then 'organic' production, has relied upon the construction ofHmong farmers as e…
Market-oriented conservation governance: The particularities of place
The Good, the Bad, and the Contradictory: Neoliberal Conservation Governance in Rural Southeast Asia
The challenges of mapping complex indigenous spatiality: From Abstract Space to Dwelling Space
Participatory mapping has become an indispensable tool in the struggle of indigenous peoples to claim their rights to land and resources. It has also, however, come under criticism for its potential to increase state regulation, replace indigenous conceptions of territory and property, and to create conflict. This paper starts from the premise that the problem is not mapping per se, but the conception of abstract space we allow to frame and guide…
Fixing” the Forest: The Spatiality of Conservation Conflict in Thailand
This article argues for the reconceptualization of park–people conflict, not as a process whereby state space erases or destroys local space, but as a moment of spatial reorganization resulting from the continual process of state and local spatial production. Such an approach allows for an examination both of the social and ecological outcomes of ongoing spatial reorganization associated with protected area establishment, and of moments of spatia…
Rooted networks, relational webs and powers of connection: Rethinking human and political ecologies
Two-dimensional maps in multi-dimensional worlds: A case of community-based mapping in Northern Thailand
On the colonial margins and in the global hotspot: Park–people conflicts in highland Thailand
Forest resource management in Thailand bears the mark of its historical position on the margins of colonial power and its present position in a biodiversity hotspot. During the colonial era, British forestry in Burma and India had a fundamental influence on the knowledge and techniques used in Thai forest management. More recently, international conservation agendas and organisations have influenced the ways in which the Thai government regulates…
Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge: Conservation Conflicts in the Inhabited Forest of Northern Thailand
Roth, R. 2004. Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge: Conservation Conflicts in the Inhabited Forest of Northern Thailand. Ecology and Society 9(3): 5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01186-090305
Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia
Rooted networks, relational webs and powers of connection: Rethinking human and political ecologies
Market-oriented conservation governance: The particularities of place
The challenges of mapping complex indigenous spatiality: From Abstract Space to Dwelling Space
Participatory mapping has become an indispensable tool in the struggle of indigenous peoples to claim their rights to land and resources. It has also, however, come under criticism for its potential to increase state regulation, replace indigenous conceptions of territory and property, and to create conflict. This paper starts from the premise that the problem is not mapping per se, but the conception of abstract space we allow to frame and guide…
The Good, the Bad, and the Contradictory: Neoliberal Conservation Governance in Rural Southeast Asia
Fixing” the Forest: The Spatiality of Conservation Conflict in Thailand
This article argues for the reconceptualization of park–people conflict, not as a process whereby state space erases or destroys local space, but as a moment of spatial reorganization resulting from the continual process of state and local spatial production. Such an approach allows for an examination both of the social and ecological outcomes of ongoing spatial reorganization associated with protected area establishment, and of moments of spatia…
Two-dimensional maps in multi-dimensional worlds: A case of community-based mapping in Northern Thailand
On the colonial margins and in the global hotspot: Park–people conflicts in highland Thailand
Forest resource management in Thailand bears the mark of its historical position on the margins of colonial power and its present position in a biodiversity hotspot. During the colonial era, British forestry in Burma and India had a fundamental influence on the knowledge and techniques used in Thai forest management. More recently, international conservation agendas and organisations have influenced the ways in which the Thai government regulates…
Wilderness” revisited: Is Canadian park management moving beyond the “wilderness” ethic
This paper questions whether the rescaling of conservation practice in Canada to include local and Indigenous communities, NGOs, and private market‐based actors represents a move away from wilderness‐thinking in conservation, and what implications this might have for the future of conservation in Canada. We explore the links between Cronon's “wilderness” ethic and coloniality, racism/sexism/classism, and political economy, and the extent to which…
Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge: Conservation Conflicts in the Inhabited Forest of Northern Thailand
Roth, R. 2004. Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge: Conservation Conflicts in the Inhabited Forest of Northern Thailand. Ecology and Society 9(3): 5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01186-090305
Protected areas and extractive hegemony: A case study of marine protected areas in the Qikiqtani (Baffin Island) region of Nunavut, Canada
Agrarian Change and Ethnic Politics: Restructuring of Hmong and Shan Labour and Agricultural Production inNorthernThailand
Ethnic politics are an important, but under-examined, dynamic in the restructuring of agrarian labour. This paper examines how the discursive construction of ethnic identity has facilitated the particular form of agrarian intensification and labour restructuring under way in the uplands ofThailand. Agricultural intensification, followed by the promotion of 'safe' and then 'organic' production, has relied upon the construction ofHmong farmers as e…
Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia
On the colonial margins and in the global hotspot: Park–people conflicts in highland Thailand
Forest resource management in Thailand bears the mark of its historical position on the margins of colonial power and its present position in a biodiversity hotspot. During the colonial era, British forestry in Burma and India had a fundamental influence on the knowledge and techniques used in Thai forest management. More recently, international conservation agendas and organisations have influenced the ways in which the Thai government regulates…
Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge: Conservation Conflicts in the Inhabited Forest of Northern Thailand
Roth, R. 2004. Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge: Conservation Conflicts in the Inhabited Forest of Northern Thailand. Ecology and Society 9(3): 5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01186-090305
Two-dimensional maps in multi-dimensional worlds: A case of community-based mapping in Northern Thailand
Rooted networks, relational webs and powers of connection: Rethinking human and political ecologies
Fixing” the Forest: The Spatiality of Conservation Conflict in Thailand
This article argues for the reconceptualization of park–people conflict, not as a process whereby state space erases or destroys local space, but as a moment of spatial reorganization resulting from the continual process of state and local spatial production. Such an approach allows for an examination both of the social and ecological outcomes of ongoing spatial reorganization associated with protected area establishment, and of moments of spatia…
The challenges of mapping complex indigenous spatiality: From Abstract Space to Dwelling Space
Participatory mapping has become an indispensable tool in the struggle of indigenous peoples to claim their rights to land and resources. It has also, however, come under criticism for its potential to increase state regulation, replace indigenous conceptions of territory and property, and to create conflict. This paper starts from the premise that the problem is not mapping per se, but the conception of abstract space we allow to frame and guide…
The Good, the Bad, and the Contradictory: Neoliberal Conservation Governance in Rural Southeast Asia
Market-oriented conservation governance: The particularities of place
Agrarian Change and Ethnic Politics: Restructuring of Hmong and Shan Labour and Agricultural Production inNorthernThailand
Ethnic politics are an important, but under-examined, dynamic in the restructuring of agrarian labour. This paper examines how the discursive construction of ethnic identity has facilitated the particular form of agrarian intensification and labour restructuring under way in the uplands ofThailand. Agricultural intensification, followed by the promotion of 'safe' and then 'organic' production, has relied upon the construction ofHmong farmers as e…
Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation
Despite broad recognition of the value of social sciences and increasingly vocal calls for better engagement with the human element of conservation, the conservation social sciences remain misunderstood and underutilized in practice. The conservation social sciences can provide unique and important contributions to society's understanding of the relationships between humans and nature and to improving conservation practice and outcomes. There are…
Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation
It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain that better understanding. Yet, a lack of awareness of the scope and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences impedes the conservation community's effective engagement with the human dimension…
Wilderness” revisited: Is Canadian park management moving beyond the “wilderness” ethic
This paper questions whether the rescaling of conservation practice in Canada to include local and Indigenous communities, NGOs, and private market‐based actors represents a move away from wilderness‐thinking in conservation, and what implications this might have for the future of conservation in Canada. We explore the links between Cronon's “wilderness” ethic and coloniality, racism/sexism/classism, and political economy, and the extent to which…
Protected areas and extractive hegemony: A case study of marine protected areas in the Qikiqtani (Baffin Island) region of Nunavut, Canada
Catalysing Transformative Change in Conservation: Lessons Learned From a Decolonial Conservation Partnership
Conservation faces a legitimacy crisis—inadequately protecting nature while marginalising the very people and societies shown to be most successful at conserving nature. Scholars and the global community are increasingly recognising that respecting, protecting, and elevating Indigenous land and water governance contributes to greater outcomes for people and nature. In the face of the dual climate and biodiversity crises, the challenge and the opp…
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Cambodian History and Society (6 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 works) · Law (5 works)