Boundary-making in Conservation

The Configuration of Environmental Ontologies in the Andean Páramos

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ID2363777
AuthorsCésar Camilo Castillo Estupiñán (0000-0002-4745-9252, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume66
Issue5
Pages914-932
Publication date2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/07311214231193324
OpenAlexW4387220482
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited56

Unique high Andean ecosystems in South America as the 'páramos' have been the object of conservation plans in the last decade. In Colombia, this spurred heated discussions when their conservation was promoted through the cartographic demarcation of their boundaries: what counts as 'páramo' and what kind of activities should be allowed there have been highly contested topics. As part of a multisited ethnography that studies the case of páramos conservation with biologists, geographers, and campesinos in the Sumapaz region of Colombia, I argue that the analysis of boundaries is a crucial matter in the unfolding of conservation. By analyzing how boundaries are configured, coordinated, and contested in the conservation of páramos in Colombia, I advance an ontological approach to boundary-making as practices embedded in the concrete transformation of environmental worlds through the involvement of multiple agents such as humans, plants, and technologies

Archaeology · Biology · Boundary (topology · Boundary object · Boundary-work · Cartography · Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Geography · Nature Conservation · Object (grammar · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Ecology

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