Cultural Hybridity and the Environment : Strategies to Celebrate Local and Indigenous Knowledge.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 A Framework for Cultural Hybridity -- 1.2 Epistemological Tools -- 1.3 Empirical Case Studies Show Local Dimensions of the Wider Complexities of 'Ecologically Sustainable Development' -- 1.3.1 Empirical Case Studies -- 1.4 Book Structure -- References -- Part I: The Foundations for a New Conceptual Framework for Cultural Hybridity -- Chapter 2: An Environmental and Social Crisis? -- 2.1 Is There a Crisis? -- 2.2 A Critique of Contemporary Development Theory -- 2.3 The Sustainable Development Era -- 2.4 Sustainable Development as Participation -- 2.5 Sustainable Development as Knowledge(s) -- 2.6 Social and Institutional Learning for Ecologically Sustainable Development -- 2.7 Environmental Governance in Australia -- 2.8 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: An Applied Peoples' Geography as the Basis of the Framework for Cultural Hybridity -- 3.1 Power Is an Entangled and Complex Force -- 3.2 A Critique of Knowledge Generation -- 3.2.1 A Foray into the History and Philosophy of Science -- 3.2.2 Knowledge Is Connected to Place -- 3.2.3 Situated Knowledges Move Through Networks -- 3.3 Governance Scale Is a Relational Social Construct -- 3.4 Colonial Discourses of Nature -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Edge Politics in Action -- Chapter 4: Political Landscapes -- 4.1 Regional Natural Resource Management in Australia -- 4.2 Regionalism in Victoria and the Northern Territory -- 4.3 Case Study 1: Threatened Species in the Landscape -- 4.4 Case Study 2: Fire in the Landscape -- 4.5 Together, Let's Give Our Land a Hand -- 4.5.1 The Complexities of 'Togetherness' -- 4.5.2 Varieties of Regionalism -- 4.5.3 A Diversity of Hands for Natural Resource Management in Australia.

4.5.4 The View from the Local -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Cultural Landscapes -- 5.1 Case Study Narratives -- 5.1.1 Case Study 1: Threatened Species Project, Victoria -- 5.1.2 Case Study 2: Desert Fire, Northern Territory -- 5.2 Historical Narratives -- 5.3 Contemporary Realities -- 5.4 Difference and Diversity Across the Landscape -- 5.5 Embedded Powers Across the Landscape -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Local Voices in the Landscape -- Chapter 6: Spaces of Environmental Governance -- 6.1 Environmental Governance Is Connected to Place -- 6.2 The Relational Characteristics of Environmental Governance -- 6.3 The Networked Characteristics of Environmental Governance -- 6.4 The Entangled Characteristics of Environmental Governance -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Spaces of Environmental Management -- 7.1 Project Success Is Synonymous with Community Involvement -- 7.2 Varieties of Participation -- 7.3 Varieties of Environmental Management -- 7.4 Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Knowledge Networks Across the Landscape -- Chapter 8: Politics of Knowledge -- 8.1 The Power of Place-Based Knowledge -- 8.2 Local Community Knowledge Encompasses Diverse Knowledge Cultures -- 8.3 Local Community Knowledge Determines the Success of Environmental Management Projects -- 8.4 Conclusion -- Reference -- Chapter 9: Varieties of Local Knowledge -- 9.1 The Potential of Local Community Knowledge -- 9.2 Place-Based Characteristics of Government Knowledge -- 9.3 Knowledge Cultures Active in Local Environmental Management and Community Development Projects -- 9.3.1 Knowledge Cultures Explained -- 9.3.1.1 Individual Knowledge -- 9.3.1.2 Place-Based Knowledge -- 9.3.1.3 Specialised Knowledge -- 9.3.1.4 Strategic Knowledge -- 9.3.1.5 Holistic Knowledge -- 9.4 Celebrating the Limitations of Local Knowledge.

9.5 The Dangers of Knowledge Dichotomies -- 9.6 Conclusion -- References -- Part V: Strategies for Cultural Hybridity -- Chapter 10: Practising Cultural Hybridity for the Third Space -- 10.1 Processes for an Applied Cultural Hybridity -- 10.2 Practising an Applied Peoples' Geography for Cultural Hybridity -- 10.2.1 Case Study 1: Principles for Protecting and Conserving Threatened Species Habitat in Victoria -- 10.2.2 Case Study 2: Principles for Managing Fire in the Southern Tanami, Northern Territory -- 10.3 Conceptualising Processes for Cultural Hybridity -- 10.4 Creating Spaces for Cultural Hybridity -- 10.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Working Together to Better Manage the Country -- 11.1 Conceptual Strategies for Cultural Hybridity -- 11.2 Practical Strategies for Cultural Hybridity -- 11.2.1 Imagining Formal Institutions for Social Action -- 11.2.2 Imagining Projects for Social Action -- 11.2.3 Imagining the Self as an Arena for Social Action -- References -- Glossary and Terms -- Index.

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