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- Title
The "bander's grip": Reading zones of human–shorebird contact.
- Authors
Isaacs, Jenny R
- Abstract
This article applies Mary Louise Pratt's "contact" perspective within a multispecies ethnography of conservation encounters on the Delaware Bay. Using critical insights from decolonial feminist science studies, environmental geography, and critical animal studies, the article deconstructs technoscientific environmental knowledge production within a more-than-human contact zone. The tools, technologies, and "conspicuous innocence" of hands-on shorebird conservation research practices are described. Re-inscribing nonhuman agency and colonial histories of place, it argues that certain elements of conservation research may be fairly read as "violent" expressions of "animality/coloniality" and "anti-conquest." It concludes by offering some harm reduction strategies for improving conservation and critical environment studies.
- Subjects
SHORE birds; BIRD conservation; ENDANGERED species; POLITICAL ecology; WILDLIFE management
- Publication
Environment & Planning E: Nature & Space, 2019, Vol 2, Issue 4, p732
- ISSN
2514-8486
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/2514848619866331