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- Convenor:
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Liana Chua
(University of Cambridge)
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- Format:
- Plenary
- Start time:
- 28 October, 2021 at
Time zone: Europe/London
- Session slots:
- 1
Short Abstract:
In recent decades, ‘partnership’ has become a powerful trope and operative model in conservation, climate activism, humanitarianism, and indigenous rights movements. A seemingly apolitical refusal of global and organizational inequalities, ‘partnership’ implies equitability, mutual respect, solidarity – a commitment to ‘being in it together’. But what do such ideals actually imply? How do they play out in practice? What other forms of partnership exist beyond them? And how else could ‘partnership’ be imagined and enacted?
Long Abstract:
This plenary will take the form of a conversation between three anthropologists working on or involved in conservation or climate action partnerships. Speaking from different subject-positions, they will reflect on how partnership is imagined and enacted in various contexts, discuss other kinds of partnership (human, nonhuman, more-than-human) that lie beyond conservation/climate activism, and contemplate how ‘partnership’ can be recast in the present and for the future.
Accepted speakers:
Session 1Lydia Gibson (Columbia University)
Short abstract:
Lydia Gibson is an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at UCL working along the interface of environmental anthropology and ecology. Lydia’s particular focus is Maroon resource use and environmental change in Caribbean tropical forest ecosystems, where diseconomies of scale, absence of large-bodied mammals, complex topographies, and legacies of plantation economies create very specific social, cultural, political, and technical arrangements seldom reflected in contemporary conservation analyses. Lydia’s current preoccupation is simulacra of justices (environmental, social, data) in conservation-based advocacy. Lydia is an IUCN SSC Specialist Group member (Birds) and contributes to the IUCN assessment of two species of parrots endemic to Jamaica. Lydia also uses GIS to support local countermapping and “countermonitoring” efforts in Jamaica.
Pasang Sherpa (The New School)
Short abstract:
Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Ph.D. is an anthropologist from Nepal, currently based in Seattle. Her research topics include the Sherpa diaspora, climate change, and Indigeneity. She will join the University of British Columbia as an assistant professor in January of 2022. She was a visiting assistant professor at Pacific Lutheran University, a postdoctoral fellow at the New School’s India China Institute, and a lecturer at the Pennsylvania State University. She also served as the co-director of Nepal Studies Initiative at the University of Washington’s South Asia Center. www.pasangysherpa.com
Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti (University of Sussex)
Short abstract:
Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti is a Peruvian Social Anthropologist at the University of Sussex and the Center for International Forestry Research. His research and engagement activities argue for the effectiveness of rights-based approaches to development, conservation, and climate change mitigation. Juan Pablo has collaborated with Indigenous and local communities in the Peruvian Amazon for the past fifteen years, examining their experiences of rights violations and socio-environmental injustice in the context of different development and conservation initiatives and mechanisms implemented in their ancestral territories. He is also a member of SHARE-Amazónica, a collective that promotes collaborative research and action in the Peruvian Amazon. Juan Pablo’s most recent work has been published in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, World Development, and Ecology and Society, as well as in policy briefs for the Center for International Forestry Research. He completed his PhD in Social Anthropology and Amerindian Studies at the University of St Andrews, and previously held lectureships at Durham and St Andrews.