ANTH 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Land Registration
25 Jan 2018
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Lecture 13 environmental narratives and the politics of environmental knowledge (part 2): Environmental narratives: simplified stories of cause and effect . Give apparent scientific legitimacy to uncertain and contested environmental problems/knowledge: support certain policies based on specific valuation of environmental change, assumptions about people-environment interactions. Support rights of some groups (state, intl agencies) over the environment at the expense of other groups. Imply blame and responsibility (ex: forest destroyers) May reinforce and justify political power or control. Crisis narratives sense of urgency (ex: deforestation and biodiversity loss). Reinforce outside control by agencies over resources they do not own. Development narratives provide blueprints for planning and intervention (ex: land registration and privatization = increased productivity). Counter-narratives alternative stories of cause and effect. May be several counter (alternative) narratives (not necessarily opposite). How is local knowledge portrayed by different actors? (ex: state). In west africa, there is the concern of deforestation.
