Conservation Against Conservation: Contesting Ways of Understanding Forests in Southern Myanmar

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dc.contributor.advisorPadwe, Jonathan
dc.contributor.authorFlanagan, Brendan
dc.contributor.departmentAnthropology
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-02T17:46:50Z
dc.date.available2019-07-02T17:46:50Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.degreeM.A.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/63137
dc.subjectCultural anthropology
dc.subjectEnvironmental management
dc.subjectWildlife conservation
dc.subjectDawei SEZ
dc.subjectForest conservation
dc.subjectIndigeneity
dc.subjectKaren ethnic group
dc.subjectMyanmar
dc.titleConservation Against Conservation: Contesting Ways of Understanding Forests in Southern Myanmar
dc.typeThesis
dcterms.abstractIn this thesis I seek to provide an understanding of how a specific rural community in Southern Myanmar, the Karen inhabiting the Kamoethway Valley, have come to identify as indigenous protectors of the environment, by paying attention to the strands of history that have produced the current conjuncture. In particular, I aim to show that, when faced with the prospect of exclusion by conservation, engagement with an explicitly environmental indigeneity remains a tactic of considerable nuance for marginalized communities. A central part of my argument will be that the forms of knowledge behind this tactical maneuver are multiple, drawing both upon local tradition and transnational discourses.
dcterms.descriptionM.A. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2019
dcterms.extent107 pages
dcterms.languageeng
dcterms.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i at Manoa
dcterms.rightsAll UHM dissertations and theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner.
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local.identifier.alturihttp://dissertations.umi.com/hawii:10289

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