Conservation regimes of exclusion: NGOs and the role of discourse in legitimising dispossession from protected areas in India

Sylvander, Nora

doi:10.1016/j.jpgor.2023.100005

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“…The GBF mentions youth, yet how this will translate on the ground is unclear, as they are a demographic that is rarely consulted, hired or researched. Assumptions about youth wanting to move to urban spaces (Girisha., 2020;Dattatri, 2023) or generational change meaning a loss of 'sustainable values' are often mobilized within public narratives to justify the "voluntary relocation" of communities from PAs (Bathija and Sylvander, 2023). Yet the actual experiences of youth as related to these spaces remain largely undocumented and I argue that on the contrary, their lives are complex and precarious, and they are often forced into making decisions to stay in or leave their forest homes.…”

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Changing natures: a perspective on youth and conservation futures

Jagadeesh

2024

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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Conservation has been a largely exclusionary and exploitative process that has its roots in western colonial expansion. This paper offers a perspective on the relationship between the conservation apparatus and young adults who live in and around Protected Areas and have grown up within a conservation regime. Following Feminist Political Ecology's call to better understand the situated and heterogeneous relationships to nature within communities, I bring attention to the lives of Soliga tribal youth in a Tiger Reserve in South India. I challenge mainstream perceptions that youth inevitably want to leave their forest homes, arguing that the difficult choices youth must make today, are informed by decades of life under restrictive laws that alienate communities from the forest over generations. Young people's lives and aspirations are contradictory and nuanced, and their relationships to the forest remain strong and should not be discounted. This research contributes to a significant gap in the literature, and illustrates the need to include the experiences of youth as a central tenet of unfolding dialogues on inclusive and decolonial approaches to conservation.

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confidence: 99%