Limits to Knowledge: Indigenous Peoples, NGOs, and the Moral Economy in the Eastern Amazon of Brazil
Despite widespread recognition of the importance of community-conservation partnerships, problems continue to emerge. In this paper we examine one such interaction to propose that outside organisations have wrongly associated the delimitations of the habitational space with the extent of community a...
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| description | Despite widespread recognition of the importance of community-conservation partnerships, problems continue to emerge. In this paper we examine one such interaction to propose that outside organisations have wrongly associated the delimitations of the habitational space with the extent of community allegiances and moral economies. Such oversights can lead to project withdrawal, as they did in one case of an ecotourism proposal among the indigenous Kayapσ of the southeastern Amazon. The case study points to the challenges in the processes of partnering with local villages where histories of fissioning and factioning contain within them their own processual relations and moral obligations. These models, by which people group themselves into communities of loyalty, affectivity, and belonging, may be elusive to outsiders and account for many challenges in local-international collaborations. Western planners are often unprepared for the long reach of relationships relevant to project planning and benefit sharing. We suggest that in order to move forward with effective multi-participant community-based projects, project planners should take into account supra-spatial, and dynamic, moral economies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aec2d95d1e1142bdab71e06215fae1f32022-12-21T19:43:14ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsConservation & Society0972-49232014-01-0112330631710.4103/0972-4923.145149Limits to Knowledge: Indigenous Peoples, NGOs, and the Moral Economy in the Eastern Amazon of BrazilJanet ChernelaLaura ZanottiDespite widespread recognition of the importance of community-conservation partnerships, problems continue to emerge. In this paper we examine one such interaction to propose that outside organisations have wrongly associated the delimitations of the habitational space with the extent of community allegiances and moral economies. Such oversights can lead to project withdrawal, as they did in one case of an ecotourism proposal among the indigenous Kayapσ of the southeastern Amazon. The case study points to the challenges in the processes of partnering with local villages where histories of fissioning and factioning contain within them their own processual relations and moral obligations. These models, by which people group themselves into communities of loyalty, affectivity, and belonging, may be elusive to outsiders and account for many challenges in local-international collaborations. Western planners are often unprepared for the long reach of relationships relevant to project planning and benefit sharing. We suggest that in order to move forward with effective multi-participant community-based projects, project planners should take into account supra-spatial, and dynamic, moral economies.http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2014;volume=12;issue=3;spage=306;epage=317;aulast=Chernelacommunity-conservation partnershipsmoral economyindigenoushistorysocial organisationNGOsKayapóAmazonBrazil |
| spellingShingle | Janet Chernela Laura Zanotti Limits to Knowledge: Indigenous Peoples, NGOs, and the Moral Economy in the Eastern Amazon of Brazil Conservation & Society community-conservation partnerships moral economy indigenous history social organisation NGOs Kayapó Amazon Brazil |
| title | Limits to Knowledge: Indigenous Peoples, NGOs, and the Moral Economy in the Eastern Amazon of Brazil |
| title_full | Limits to Knowledge: Indigenous Peoples, NGOs, and the Moral Economy in the Eastern Amazon of Brazil |
| title_fullStr | Limits to Knowledge: Indigenous Peoples, NGOs, and the Moral Economy in the Eastern Amazon of Brazil |
| title_full_unstemmed | Limits to Knowledge: Indigenous Peoples, NGOs, and the Moral Economy in the Eastern Amazon of Brazil |
| title_short | Limits to Knowledge: Indigenous Peoples, NGOs, and the Moral Economy in the Eastern Amazon of Brazil |
| title_sort | limits to knowledge indigenous peoples ngos and the moral economy in the eastern amazon of brazil |
| topic | community-conservation partnerships moral economy indigenous history social organisation NGOs Kayapó Amazon Brazil |
| url | http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2014;volume=12;issue=3;spage=306;epage=317;aulast=Chernela |
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