Caught between the Cartographic and the Ethnographic Imagination

The Whereabouts of Amateurs, Professionals, and Nature in Knowing Biodiversity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4476566
AutoresRebecca Ellis (0000-0002-7761-468X, Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy, Furness College, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YG, England), Claire Waterton (0000-0002-1283-4147, Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy, Furness College, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YG, England)
Ano2005
Volume23
Fascículo5
Páginas673-693
Data de publicação2005-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d353t
OpenAlexW1963639912
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas68
Referências citadas26

In this paper we document current research into new forms of public engagement presently taking place in UK biodiversity policy. This involves locating the main participants in such patterns of engagement; namely nature, amateur naturalists, and professional biologists and conservationists. Two interwoven and mutually interdependent perspectives or 'imaginaries'-the 'cartographic' and the 'ethnographic'-are presented in the paper to explore the shaping and interpretation of such new forms of engagement. However, in this context the interest lies in the ways in which either perspective is foregrounded or backgrounded by the different parties involved. The described shifts and movements of a range of actors and processes being studied demonstrate the fluidity and instability of networks of 'knowing nature well', whose stability is often assumed. The tracing of two constants- expertise and exchange-within networks inhabited by nature and by amateur and professional naturalists allows for an exploration of ways in which social/natural inclusions and exclusions occur in new participatory practices designed as part of biodiversity action planning

Action (physics · Amateur · Archaeology · Art · Biodiversity · Biology · Citizen journalism · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Geography · Interdependence · Interpretation (philosophy · Natural (archaeology · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Computer Science · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Ecology