Massarella, K., Krauss, J. orcid.org/0000-0003-4593-0781, Kiwango, W. et al. (1 more author) (2022) Exploring convivial conservation in theory and practice: possibilities and challenges for a transformative approach to biodiversity conservation. Conservation and Society, 20 (2). pp. 59-68. ISSN 0972-4923
Abstract
Convivial conservation has been put forward as a radical alternative to transform prevailing mainstream approaches that aim to address global concerns of biodiversity loss and extinction. This special issue includes contributions from diverse disciplinary and geographical perspectives which critically examine convivial conservation's potential in theory and practice and explore both possibilities and challenges for the approach's transformative ambitions. This introduction focuses on three issues which the contributions highlight as critical for facilitating transformation of mainstream conservation. First, the different ways in which key dimensions of justice — epistemic, distributive, and participatory and multi-species justice — intersect with the convivial conservation proposal, and how potential injustices might be mitigated. Second, how convivial conservation approaches the potential to facilitate human and non-human coexistence. Third, how transformative methodologies and innovative conceptual lenses can be used to further develop convivial conservation. The diverse contributions show that convivial conservation has clear potential to be transformative. However, to realise this potential, convivial conservation must avoid previous proposals' pitfalls, such as trying to 'reinvent the wheel' and being too narrowly focused. Instead, convivial conservation must continue to evolve in response to engagement with a plurality of perspectives, experiences, ideas and methodologies from around the world.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Massarella et al. 2022. This article is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License (CC BY-NC-SA), which permits non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0) |
Keywords: | convivial conservation; biodiversity conservation; transformative justice; human-wildlife coexistence; transformative methodologies |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2022 11:40 |
Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2022 15:14 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Medknow |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.4103/cs.cs_53_22 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:189236 |