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Situating 'community-based conservation' in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

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dc.contributor.author Gisbergen, Kylie van
dc.date.accessioned 2011-03-28T20:31:51Z
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-25T07:11:35Z
dc.date.available 2011-03-28T20:31:51Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-25T07:11:35Z
dc.date.copyright 2002
dc.date.issued 2002
dc.identifier.uri https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/23520
dc.description.abstract This essay explores the intentions of 'discourse' in the development setting. It explores how a discourse in particular can permeate cultural borders. It is about the power of a discourse being strong enough to shape peoples relationships to their environment through constructs of what is 'truth' and what is 'knowledge'. It is about the inability of this particular discourse to transcend its own agenda, thus compromise local development agendas. The discourse is 'conservation'. Its associates are inter alia 'biodiversity', 'preservation' and 'nature'. I intend to question the assumptions surrounding 'conservation', and explore whether the application of this discourse in particular is compatible, albeit appropriate to Bougainvillian culture. Because the discourse of conservation has been coupled with that of 'development' in recent years (see Brandon & Wells 1992, Western and Wright 1994, and for a critical discussion on the merger see Sachs 1999), I will also question the assumptions surrounding 'development'. Because 'community-based conservation' is the latest model attempting to marry 'conservation' and 'development' together, then this concept will compromise the basis for exploration. en_NZ
dc.format pdf en_NZ
dc.language en_NZ
dc.language.iso en_NZ
dc.publisher Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington en_NZ
dc.title Situating 'community-based conservation' in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea en_NZ
dc.type Text en_NZ
vuwschema.type.vuw Awarded Research Masters Thesis en_NZ
thesis.degree.grantor Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington en_NZ
thesis.degree.level Masters en_NZ


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