Converging Boundaries

<p>The diverse narratives brought to the reader through this book illustrate how power conflict and plurality come together in the practice of biodiversity conservation in multiple Latin American localities. The editors of this book attempted here to confront older conservation paradigms which rest problematically upon self-evident conceptions of Nature as being radically other or ontologically separate from human interactions or culture. Drawing upon contemporary critical scholarship from the South in the areas of epistemic justice and fabrics of life in designing this volume we pondered a conceptualization of nature as co-constructed relational and multiple acknowledging the deep evolutionary kinship between people and nature. In accordance to this spirit this book was designed as a horizontal field of narratives where peasants community leaders practitioners and scientists involved in conservation efforts across Colombia Uruguay and Chile were invited to provide their perspectives. And as a result the reader will find rich accounts of authors who are usually not counted or are not of account or counted out from the outset or spoken for or romantically imagined in advance in conservation literature. </p><p>Courses:</p><p>132.112 - Planning for Sustainable Development (Massey University)</p><p>132.213 - Policy Analysis and Evaluation (Massey University)</p><p>Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research Capacity Building courses</p>