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2013 Annual Meeting of
the Association of American Geographers
Los Angeles
April 9-13, 2013
Contemporary Discourses and Narratives on
Neoliberalization of Protected Areas in Asia
Organizers –
Abhineety Goel (Texas A&M University)
Swetha Peteru (Texas A&M University)
Discourses on conservation in Asia have been
transformed significantly from colonial fortress conservation to decentralized
Integrated Conservation-Development Program to the most-recent capitalist
conservation. Over the last decade, events in the Global
South have been superseded by neoliberal policies in every domain of governance
including conservation. The need to employ neoliberal policies to manage nature
conservation results from expanding capitalistic interests. These interests can
be facilitated by increasing commercialization and privatization of resource
management, thereby employing market instruments to dislocate previous state
policies for monetary interests (Bakker 2005). Through this process, regions
are being (re-) territorialized (Sack 1986, Peluso and Vandergeest 1995) or
dispossessed (Harvey 2003) to accommodate new conservation enclosures for
capitalist expansion
Broadly, this session seek papers that
investigate critical political, economic, and social dimensions of the
neoliberal conservation in Asia through the following questions: How does
neoliberal conservation discourse affect conservation policies and programs?
How are different mechanisms of neoliberalization influencing protected areas
and related institutions? What are the strengths and weaknesses of neoliberal
conservation policies? How are power relations transformed?
Potential topics include but not limited to –
[Re] territorialization
Market environmentalism
Payment of Ecosystem Services
Dispossession
State re-distribution of forest resources
Abstracts (according to AAG guidelines) should be
emailed as a word or a pdf document to both Abhineety Goel (abhine...@tamu.edu)
and Swetha Peteru (spet...@tamu.edu) no later than October 12th,
2012. Authors of accepted abstracts must
register for the conference and provide the PIN numbers to the session
organizers when requested and no later than 12th October 2012.
References:
Bakker, K. 2005. Neoliberalizing nature? Market
environmentalism in water supply in England and Wales. Annals of the
Association of American Geographers 95(3): 542-565.
Harvey, D. 2003. The New Imperialism. New York:
Oxford.
Peluso, N. and Vandergeest, P. 1995.
Territorialization and State power in Thailand. Theory and Society. 24(3):
385-426.
Sack, R. 1986. Human Territoriality: Its theory
and practice. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 73(1): 55-74.
