Thinking Ecographically

Places, Ecographers, and Environmentalism

Bibliographic Data

ID15445321
AuthorsJamon Alex Halvaksz (0000-0002-9053-254X, corresponding author), Heather Young-Leslie (0000-0001-7752-7968), Heather E Young-Leslie
Year2008
Volume3
Issue2
Pages183-205
Publication date2008-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNature and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1558-6073 • E-ISSN: 1558-5468
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/nc.2008.030203
OpenAlexW2055746419
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited32

The literature on environment-animal-human relations, place, and space, tends to emphasize cultural differences between global interests and local environmental practices. While this literature contributes substantially to our understanding of resource management, traditional ecological knowledge, and environmental protection, the work of key persons imbricated in both global and local positions has been elided. In this article, we propose a theory of “ecographers” as individuals particularly positioned to relate an indigenous epistemology of the local environment with reference to traditional and introduced forms of knowledge, practice, and uses of places, spaces, and inter-species relationships. We ground our analysis in ethnographic research among two Pacific communities, but draw parallels with individuals from varied ethnographic and environmental settings. This new concept offers a powerful cross-cultural approach to ecological strategizing relationships; one grounded by local yet globally and historically inflected agents of the present

Common ground · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Ethnography · Indigenous · Parallels · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Traditional knowledge · Anthropology · Communication · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Ecology