Call for Papers

[L. Jane McMillan]

Changing Intersections of Conservation and Law

Call for Papers for a Proposed Panel at the SfAA 2016 meetings in Vancouver, BC, March 29-April 2, 2016

 

Dear colleagues,

 

I am seeking panelists for the following proposed panel for the SfAA 2016 meeting in Vancouver.  This panel is being organized as part of the Biodiversity, People, Parks and Ecologies series organized by Amanda Stronza and Rebecca Witter (previously posted on EANTH-L — see  https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=EANTH-L;6a4399e3.1509 ).  Following are the panel abstract and my own planned submission.  Please send abstracts of 100 words or less to Deric...@ucr.edu by October 5.  Thank you.

 

 

Panel Abstract:

Changing Intersections of Conservation and Law

 

This panel examines the intersections between changes in conservation practice, the strategic use of the law, and their uneven consequences for the social impacts of conservation, asking such questions as: How do neoliberal conservation strategies involving titling of community property and/or new public-private conservation decision-making bodies shift conflicts and resistance into legal forms?  How may "rights-based" conservation strategies reinforce these trends even as they aim to defend local claims to resources? How does the (partial) globalization of indigenous rights law present novel legal resources to challenge and reshape state and public-private regulation of resources?  

 

My paper abstract:

Sparrow v. Regina and South African Marine Protected Areas: Canadian Precedent as Criminal Defense in a South African Magistrate's Court

 

In State v. Gongqose (2012), three local residents were accused of illegally fishing in the Dwesa-Cwebe Marine Protected Area (MPA) in South Africa's Eastern Cape.  Drawing on trial transcripts and the author's experience as an expert witness in the case, this paper examines the ways the Magistrate, prosecution and defense considered issues around continuity, change and the nature of custom and regulation that had been (partially) resolved in other jurisdictions.  The defense drew upon international precedents to argue that customary fishing rights were not extinguished by the establishment of the MPA, reshaping the politics of conservation in the process.

Derick A. Fay, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Anthropology

University of California, Riverside, USA

http://faculty.ucr.edu/~derickf/

L. Jane McMillan, PhD

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Communities

Associate Professor 

Department of Anthropology

St. Francis Xavier University

902.867.5021

ljmc...@stfx.ca