Moral Ecologies : Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance
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University of the Highlands and Islands
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- 28 - History
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- 3649713
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- ISBN
- 9783030061111
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- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation policies define once customary and vernacular forms of managing common resources as banditry —and how the ‘bandits’ fight back. It represents the culmination of an eight-year programme of research that drew initial inspiration from Karl Jacoby’s seminal, but little known outside of North America, Crimes against Nature. Building up a global network of researchers, Robertson’s over-arching aim was to test his belief that Jacoby’s formulation of moral ecology – as way of explaining tensions and conflicts between vernacular and ‘top down’ environmental beliefs – had applicability across many other arenas and timescales.
Robertson first established a partnership with Professor Carl Griffin (Global Studies, Sussex), the first fruits of which was a paper at the International Conference of Historical Geographers in Prague in 2012. A period of joint research and network building followed. This came to fruition in 2015 with both Robertson and Griffin being awarded funded research fellowships at Curtin University, Western Australia. Outcomes of which included the final draft of a paper on moral ecologies published in History Workshop Journal in 2016 and the first draft of the proposal for this volume which included the lead participant from Curtin: Professor Roy Jones (Geography). Momentum was maintained through the publication of the chapter ‘Elvers and salmon: Moral ecologies and conflict on the nineteenth-century Severn’ in The New Coastal History (2017).
Moral ecologies: histories of conservation, dispossession and resistance was published in 2019 emerging out of the international network created by Robertson, Griffin and Jones. Robertson made a full contribution to the editing process including commissioning, reviewing, and copy-editing chapters. He collaboratively wrote the volume introduction and contributed his own, single-authored research chapter. Without this sustained programme of research, this volume would not exist.
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