Violence and conservation: Beyond unintended consequences and unfortunate coincidences |
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| Institution: | 1. Escuela de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad del Rosario, Calle 12C # 6-25, Edificio Santafé, Of. 502, Bogotá, Colombia;2. Instituto Pensar, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Carrera 7 # 40A-54, Segundo Piso, Bogotá, Colombia;1. Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa;2. Centre for Environmental Humanities South and Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town, South Africa;1. Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium;2. Conflict Research Group, Ghent University, Belgium |
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| Abstract: | While the relationship between violence and conservation has gained increasing attention in both academic and activist circles, official and public discourses often portray their entanglements as (unlucky) overlapping phenomena. In this article, we show how, under specific practices of state territorialization, conservation becomes both the means and reasons for violence. Based on ethnographic research in Colombia’s emblematic Tayrona National Natural Park, we detail how both the war on drugs and tourism promotion shape these state practices, and how they have translated into everyday, yet powerful, means of dispossession in the name of conservation. By analyzing the effects of the production of peasants as environmental predators, illegal occupants and collateral damage, we show how official conservation strategies have justified local communities’ political and material erasure, and how they have resulted in the destruction of their lived ecologies and the erosion of their livelihood strategies. |
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| Keywords: | Conservation Violence Dispossession Protected areas Peasants Colombia |
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