Margulies, J. orcid.org/0000-0003-2029-4424 and Karanth, K.K. (2018) The production of human-wildlife conflict: a political animal geography of encounter. Geoforum, 95. pp. 153-164. ISSN 0016-7185
Abstract
This study examines how transformations of a regional rural economy have produced new geographies of en- counter between agricultural communities, their livestock, and carnivores surrounding Bandipur National Park in Karnataka, India. We analyze state discourses of human-wildlife conflict alongside the perspectives of rural agricultural communities about changes in human-wildlife interactions. Our study shows how state narratives about human-wildlife conflict mask more foundational changes in the livelihood strategies of agricultural vil- lages in response both to park management and regional economic transformations, and how these changes are inherently woven into the production of new geographies of human-wildlife encounter. Our results suggest declining tolerance for injury and death of cattle by carnivores represents the cumulative impacts of a trans- formation of the livestock economy and more aggressive protected area management strategies. This research also suggests how political ecology can maintain its commitments to social justice while becoming more attuned to animals as political actors.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Elsevier. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Geoforum. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Human-wildlife conflict; Human-wildlife interactions; Conservation conflicts; More-than-human geographies; Political animal geography; India |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EUROPEAN COMMISSION - HORIZON 2020 694995 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2018 12:23 |
Last Modified: | 04 Aug 2020 11:09 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.06.011 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:132813 |