“44Local Theory”: Nature and the Making of an Amazonian Place

Raffles, Hugh

doi:10.1525/can.1999.14.3.323

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“…More bluntly, it means to "catch the there out there". Borrowing from Raffles, the locality I identify as field site for my research is "a set of relations, on ongoing politics, a density, in which places are discursively and imaginatively materialized and enacted through the practices of variously positioned people and political economies" ( [16], p. 324).…”

Section: Capturing the Localmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bare Rocks and Fallen Angels: Environmental Change, Climate Perceptions and Ritual Practice in the Peruvian Andes

Pærregaard

2013

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Abstract:One of the many dimensions of globalization is climate change that in recent years has caused much concern in the developed world. The aim of this article is to explore how people living on the margins of the global world conceive climate change. Drawing on ethnographic field data from the 1980s and today it examines how the ritual practice and the religious belief of a rural community in the Peruvian Andes has changed during the last 27 years and how the villagers perceive this change. It argues that the villagers traditionally conceive the environment as co-habited by humans and non-humans but that recent environmental change in the Andes has caused a shift in this world-view. Today, many villagers have adopted the global vocabulary on climate change and are concerned with their own impact in the environment. However, the villagers reject the idea that it is human activities in other parts of the world that cause environmental problems in their community and claim that these must be addressed locally. It suggests that even though the villagers' reluctance to subscribe to the global discourse of climate change makes them look like the companions of climate skeptics in the developed world, their reasons are very different.

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Section: Capturing the Localmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bare Rocks and Fallen Angels: Environmental Change, Climate Perceptions and Ritual Practice in the Peruvian Andes

Pærregaard

2013

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“…However, the meaning of 'local' itself is controversial (Raffles 1999). Definitions of local people and forest-dependent communities, for example, are normally specific to their geographical area, and various terms are used for people who live in or near forest areas or who are from such areas.…”

Section: Local Participationmentioning

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Importance of local participation in achieving equity in benefit-sharing mechanisms for REDD+: a case study from the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve

Gebara¹

2013

Int J Commons

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Abstract:Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) in tropical countries is now a critical piece of any international agreement that aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. An important issue refers to the distribution of benefits or, in other words, benefit sharing mechanisms. In this paper, I examine the degree of local participation in benefit-sharing mechanisms in the case of the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve in the State of Amazonas, Brazil, and assess how local participation -or lack of it -affects the outcomes, particularly with regard to equity. The analysis seeks to address the gap between theory and practice by considering the main concerns regarding equitable benefit sharing for REDD+, namely, the types of benefits to be distributed, eligible beneficiaries, the structure of benefits, and mechanisms for distributing them, and by identifying the possible negative and positive effects of benefit-sharing mechanisms. In doing so, my aim is to contribute to the more effective design and implementation of benefit-sharing mechanisms and to expand debate on the topic. The main research question of this paper is: how important is local participation for achieving equity in benefit-sharing mechanisms for REDD+? The results of this analysis indicate that the adaptation and mitigation goals of REDD+ are more likely to be achieved if the development and implementation of benefit-sharing mechanisms involve democratic and interactive processes for local participation, because such processes will lead to greater flexibility in the definition of benefits and distributional mechanisms. I draw the following conclusions: (1) the criteria for equity should be considered when benefits are defined, rather than when they are distributed and (2) given the complex and diverse relationships and issues involved in deforestation, it is important to adopt a multidimensional approach when identifying beneficiaries and benefits and designing benefit-sharing mechanisms. 474Maria Fernanda Gebara

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“…Pengertian "lokal" juga terus diperdebatkan (Raffles 1999). Arti lokal dapat didefinisikan berdasarkan kelahiran, tempat tinggal, hubungan dengan lokasi, tingkat ketergantungan terhadap sumber daya atau kontribusinya terhadap pembentukan lembaga lokal.…”

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Mewujudkan REDD+: strategi nasional dan berbagai pilihan kebijakan

Angelsen¹,

Brockhaus²,

Kanninen³

et al. 2010

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“44Local Theory”: Nature and the Making of an Amazonian Place

Cited by 139 publications

References 27 publications

Bare Rocks and Fallen Angels: Environmental Change, Climate Perceptions and Ritual Practice in the Peruvian Andes

Bare Rocks and Fallen Angels: Environmental Change, Climate Perceptions and Ritual Practice in the Peruvian Andes

Importance of local participation in achieving equity in benefit-sharing mechanisms for REDD+: a case study from the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve

Mewujudkan REDD+: strategi nasional dan berbagai pilihan kebijakan

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