Interested in learning more about the #ConservationHumanities? Here are three great books that will get you started with this emerging field:
1. Paige West: #Conservation is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea
A great read for those interested in #PoliticalEcology. This book focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project in #PapuaNewGuinea. West reveals how changing configurations of ideas, actions, and material relations would eventually drive project workers to unwittingly embody the role of government, and ultimately lead to the project's failure.
🔗: https://www.dukeupress.edu/conservation-is-our-government-now
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3. Drayton: Nature's government: Science, imperialism and the “improvement” of the world
A great historical study which looks at the links between the field of #Botany, #Colonialism, and #Imperialism. Drayton argues that such science was intrinsically useful to colonial expansion, guiding the exploitation of exotic environments as well as making conquest seem necessary, legitimate, and beneficial.
🔗: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300059762/natures-government/
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2. Weik von Mossner: Moving environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film.
A collection of essays from a range of international scholars investigating how films portray human emotional relationships with the more-than-human world and how such films act upon their viewers’ emotions.
🔗 https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/M/Moving-Environments2
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