Human-Wildlife Coexistence
Business as Usual Conservation or an Opportunity for Transformative Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8099313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valentina Fiasco (0000-0001-9875-5206, corresponding author), Kate Massarella (0000-0001-6721-1281) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 167-178 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0972-4923 • E-ISSN: 0975-3133 |
| Publisher | Medknow (PUBLISHER • IN) |
| DOI | 10.4103/cs.cs_26_21 |
| OpenAlex | W4210716082 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 61 |
The term ‘coexistence’ is increasingly being used by academics and practitioners to reflect a re-conceptualisation of human-wildlife interactions (HWI). Coexistence has become a popular buzzword and is central to several proposals for transformative change in biodiversity conservation, including convivial conservation. Although ideas about how to achieve coexistence proliferate, critical exploration of the framing and use of the term is lacking. Through analysis of semi-structured interviews, webinars and online and offline documents, this paper critically interrogates how ‘coexistence’ is being conceptualised and translated into practice. We characterise coexistence as a boundary object that reflects a broadly agreed on ‘hopeful mission', while being flexible enough to be meaningful for a wide range of actors. We identify three main framings of coexistence, which reflect the ways of knowing, values and approaches of different epistemic communities. We find that although the idea of coexistence has the potential to help facilitate transformative change in wildlife management, so far it largely manifests in practice as a positive-sounding label for standardised packages of tools and incentives. We argue that as the meaning of coexistence continues to be contested, there is an opportunity for activists, academics, and practitioners to reclaim its transformative roots. We identify a role for convivial conservation within this agenda: to re-politicise coexistence through the concept of ‘meaningful coexistence
Biology · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Wildlife · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Environmental Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Ecology
Harmony Unveiled
Who must adapt to whom? Contested discourses on human–wolf coexistence and their impact on policy in Spain
Biocultural conservation as an alternative pathway for conservation
Conservation and conviviality in the American West
How to talk about wolves? Investigating discursive strategies behind a major change of wildlife management policy
Performing the wild
Convivial fences? Property, ‘right to wildlife’ and the need for redistributive justice in South African conservation
Snow leopards, prey, and pastoralists
(Co)producing landscapes of coexistence
Wildlife as an affective multiplicity
Parks and Peoples
An interdisciplinary review of current and future approaches to improving human–predator relations
Human–wildlife coexistence in a changing world
Social innovation and sustainability; how to disentangle the buzzword and its application in the field of agriculture and rural development
Rearticulating the myth of human–wildlife conflict
Fake News as a Floating Signifier
Thirty years of connectivity conservation planning
Maintaining Complex Relations with Large Cats
Creating Coexistence between Humans and Wildlife
Towards Convivial Conservation
Creating Landscapes of Coexistence
Discursive struggle and contested signifiers in the arenas of education policy and work skills in Japan
How do empty signifiers lose credibility? The caseof commissioning in English local government
Transformation beyond conservation
Anatomy of a buzzword
Connectivity conservation
You say you want a revolution? Transforming education and capacity building in response to global change
Towards sustainable coexistence
Human–Wildlife Conflicts and the Need to Include Tolerance and Coexistence
Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects
What do buzzwords do for development policy? a critical look at ‘participation’, ‘empowerment’ and ‘poverty reduction’
Sustainability as Empty Signifier
The Dark Side of Transformation
Coexisting with wildfire? Achievements and challenges for a radical social-ecological transformation in Catalonia (Spain)
Constructing Connectivity
Common sensing
Rethinking the building blocks
The production of human-wildlife conflict
Revisiting social natures
Remaking more‐than‐human society
Nature, Harmony, and the Kaliyugaya
Geographies of resilience
The Trouble with Wilderness
A decade of discourse analysis of environmental politics
Buzzwords and fuzzwords
Participation
From paper to practice? Assembling a rights-based conservation approach
Civil society
Sustainability
Development as a buzzword
Good governance
The Powers of Association
Practices of assemblage and community forest management
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |