'With the Salween Peace Park, We Can Survive as a Nation': Karen Environmental Relations and the Politics of an Indigenous Conservation Initiative

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dc.contributor.advisorVandergeest, Peter
dc.creatorPaul, Andrew Leonard
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-05T14:53:59Z
dc.date.available2019-03-05T14:53:59Z
dc.date.copyright2018-11-29
dc.date.issued2019-03-05
dc.date.updated2019-03-05T14:53:58Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractGlobal conservation has a history of displacing Indigenous peoples from their traditional territories, which contain many of the world's most intact and biologically-rich ecosystems. However, this has the potential to change with growing international recognition of Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas and Territories (ICCAs) as a protected area category. Indigenous peoples are declaring protected areas to conserve biodiversity, defend their traditional territories, and resist dispossession. This thesis critically examines the mobilization of Indigenous environmental relations and conservation politics to protect the land in the Salween Peace Park, a 5,485-square kilometre conservation initiative in the autonomous Karen territory of Kawthoolei, otherwise known as Karen State, Burma. I argue that paying attention to spiritual-environmental relations is essential in order to understand Indigenous environmental governance, and that conservation projects offer unique opportunities for Indigenous peoples to mobilize these environmental relations, engage in symbolic politics, and mount a sovereign refusal of state domination.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/35877
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectGeography
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous peoples and conservation
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs)
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous ontology
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous law
dc.subject.keywordsAnimism
dc.subject.keywordsCustomary land
dc.subject.keywordsPolitics of recognition
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous resurgence
dc.subject.keywordsSovereign refusal
dc.subject.keywordsSalween Peace Park
dc.subject.keywordsKaw system
dc.subject.keywordsKaren people
dc.subject.keywordsKawthoolei
dc.subject.keywordsKaren National Union
dc.subject.keywordsBurma (Myanmar)
dc.title'With the Salween Peace Park, We Can Survive as a Nation': Karen Environmental Relations and the Politics of an Indigenous Conservation Initiative
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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