Interspecies Respect and Potato Conservation in the Peruvian Cradle of Domestication
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8107772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olivia Angé (0000-0002-3299-8536, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 30-30 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| 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_16_122 |
| OpenAlex | W2791010785 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 21 |
This paper explores people and tuber affective encounters, as they unfold in a biodiversity conservation programme in the Peruvian Andes. It draws on ethnographic data from the Potato Park, renowned worldwide as one of the most successful in-situ initiatives for the conservation of biocultural diversity. Concerned with interspecies relations, the paper focusses on the circulation of respeto that is both an affect and a normative stance posited locally as necessary for the conservation of the potato. Addressing first expressions of respeto in daily potato practices by highland peasants, the paper then explores its importance within the context of the Park's conservation policy. Agricultural investigations and seed-banking are indeed enmeshed in activities intended to intensify potato-people regard. Throughout the paper, the concept of non-human charisma is used to point out the different kinds of potato appraisals experienced in the Park; as well as how the Park concretely works toward human beings' learning 'how to be affected' by tuber agrobiodiversity. The article finally explains how potato affective agency is extended beyond the Park, to reach the international scene. Exploring the Potato Park from the perspective of respeto, and using charisma as a heuristic tool, it enlightens a mode of conservation initiative; creating flourishing ecologies through affective encounters, that cannot be accounted for with an instrumental approach
Agency (philosophy · Agricultural biodiversity · Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Charisma · Context (archaeology · Domestication · Environmental ethics · Geography · Normative · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Ecology · Law
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Of Hoarding and Housekeeping
With Endless Articulations
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Saving the Other Bees
In the Shade of Hailstones
Indigenous peoples in carbon pricing policymaking
Feral Atlas
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Entangled pathways of the Plantationocene
Changing Fortunes
How Forests Think
Environmental Values
Farmers' Bounty
The ecological role of biodiversity in agroecosystems
Animals, Plants, People, and Things
Multilevel Agrobiodiversity and Conservation of Andean Potatoes in Central Peru
In situ conservation of crop genetic resources through maintenance of traditional farming systems
Reprint of “Unruly grasses
The affective labor of growing forests and the becoming of environmental subjects
The Force of Things
Environmental issues
Nonhuman Charisma
Multispecies Studies
Materialist returns
How to Talk About the Body? the Normative Dimension of Science Studies
The Low-Wage Conservationist
Foucault in the forest
The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 1969 - 2025 (57) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |