Community-Based River Conservation in the Ngao River Basin: Inland Fisheries for Food Security, Self-determination, and New Futures of Conservation in Thailand

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dc.contributor.advisorVandergeest, Peter
dc.contributor.authorDuker, Peter Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-08T15:44:42Z
dc.date.available2022-08-08T15:44:42Z
dc.date.copyright2022-01-21
dc.date.issued2022-08-08
dc.date.updated2022-08-08T15:44:42Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the emergence and implications of community-based river conservation programs that effectively manage inland fisheries by ethnic minority Karen communities in the Ngao River basin in Northern Thailand. By remotely collaborating with a local research assistant, the study generated qualitative data through group and individual interviews with 40 community members and two key informants, participant observation, and community mapping exercises. I draw on frameworks such as rooted networks and collectives to consider the role of various actors and materialities in determining effective conservation that contributes to community needs. The study found that the interplay of communities' networked relations centred the role of formalized river conservation in contributing to food security and self-determination in the face of a state-initiated exclusionary protected area. Shifting discourse from forests to rivers can contribute to an ontological redefinition of conservation in Thailand that counters longstanding marginalization of the Karen from resource governance arrangements.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/39576
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectGeography
dc.subject.keywordsCommunity-based conservation
dc.subject.keywordsRivers
dc.subject.keywordsInland fisheries
dc.subject.keywordsFood security
dc.subject.keywordsSelf-determination
dc.subject.keywordsOntological politics
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical ecology
dc.subject.keywordsThailand
dc.subject.keywordsKaren
dc.subject.keywordsResearch assistants
dc.subject.keywordsRooted networks
dc.subject.keywordsCollectives
dc.subject.keywordsNonhuman agency
dc.subject.keywordsRemote methods
dc.titleCommunity-Based River Conservation in the Ngao River Basin: Inland Fisheries for Food Security, Self-determination, and New Futures of Conservation in Thailand
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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