Cultural Hybridity and the Environment Strategies to celebrate local
This book highlights the importance of diversity in overcoming issues of social and environmental degradation. It presents conceptual and practical strategies to celebrate local and Indigenous knowledge for improved community development and environmental
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Cultural Hybridity and the Environment Strategies to celebrate local and Indigenous knowledge
Cultural Hybridity and the Environment
Kirsten Maclean
Cultural Hybridity and the Environment Strategies to celebrate local and Indigenous knowledge
Kirsten Maclean CSIRO (Adaptive Social and Economic Systems Program) Dutton Park, Australia
ISBN 978-981-287-322-4 ISBN 978-981-287-323-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-981-287-323-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015931651 Springer Singapore Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer Science+Business Media Singapore Pte Ltd. is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
I dedicate this book to my wonderful family who continue to provide me with endless intellectual and emotional support. In no particular order: the Hambleys – Tom, Hannah and Happy; Anne Warren; and the Macleans – Rupert, Michiko, Lisa, Amie-Anne, Janelle, Joan and Donald.
Preface
David Harvey has proclaimed, “The geography we make must be a peoples’ geography” (1984, p. 7). This clarion call challenges geographers everywhere to consider the power and potential of geographic knowledge as basis for social action. This book answers Harvey’s call. It provides its readers tools to understand the social world and empowers them to mobilize social change. Maclean has achieved this tremendous feat through a sophisticated distillation of relevant theory and an eloquent presentation of two rich empirical case studies from local environmental management and community development. The theoretical analysis is built on a brilliant critique of western scientific views of the natural world to reveal how understandings of nature are a social construction. By documenting how knowledge generation is “essentially locally situated and socially derived”, Maclean charts a path to move to beyond what Vandana Shiva so aptly describes as “monoc
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