Robin Roth
University of Guelph, Geography, Faculty Member
- Geography, Human Geography, Conservation, Political Ecology, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Rural Livelihood Strategies, and 10 moreClimate Change, Food Security, Governance, Gender, HIV/AIDS, Poverty, Small scall Irrigation, Development Policies and Strategies, Institutions, and Agricultural extensionedit
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States have long used protected areas to consolidate control over Indigenous Peoples’ territories, undermining community-based governance and access to resources. Despite this history, Indigenous Peoples around the world are increasingly... more
States have long used protected areas to consolidate control over Indigenous Peoples’ territories, undermining community-based governance and access to resources. Despite this history, Indigenous Peoples around the world are increasingly designating their own protected areas to defend ancestral territories and assert self-determination. This paper examines Indigenous conservation politics in the Salween Peace Park in Kawthoolei, an autonomous territory of the Karen (Sino-Tibetan language-speaking peoples living primarily in Burma and along the Thai-Burma border). Local villagers and the Karen National Union envision the park as a grassroots initiative for peace in an area that has suffered decades of armed conflict between the Burmese military and the Karen movement for self-determination. Using the Salween Peace Park as a case study, we engage Indigenous scholarship on politics of recognition, resurgence, and refusal. We explore intersections and tensions between these political st...
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Conservation scientists increasingly recognise the value of Indigenous knowledge in conservation practice. However, studies of Indigenous knowledge and resource management systems have often tended to overlook the role and agency of... more
Conservation scientists increasingly recognise the value of Indigenous knowledge in conservation practice. However, studies of Indigenous knowledge and resource management systems have often tended to overlook the role and agency of more-than-human beings and ceremonial protocols in mediating human–environment relationships. This paper presents results from community-based research with Karen communities in the Salween Peace Park, an innovative Indigenous-led conservation initiative in the autonomous Karen territory of Kawthoolei, on the border between Thailand and Burma, or Myanmar. Our findings detail ways in which relations with more-than-human beings, including spirits, constitute environmental governance in Karen communities. These findings compel externally situated conservation biologists to take relational ontologies seriously, allowing local interlocutors’ lived experience, knowledge, and theory to challenge culturally bound concepts such as resources, management, and conse...
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This paper questions whether the rescaling of conservation practice in Canada to include local and Indigenous communities, NGOs, and private market‐based actors represents a move away from wilderness‐thinking in conservation, and what... more
This paper questions whether the rescaling of conservation practice in Canada to include local and Indigenous communities, NGOs, and private market‐based actors represents a move away from wilderness‐thinking in conservation, and what implications this might have for the future of conservation in Canada. We explore the links between Cronon's “wilderness” ethic and coloniality, racism/sexism/classism, and political economy, and the extent to which recent trends in conservation practice, such as co‐management arrangements, private tourism proposals, and a shift in programming to attract a diverse public to parks, help us to move beyond the limited vision for conservation and environmentalism that the wilderness ethic provides. We interrogate the ways in which the concept of wilderness is being employed, resisted, and transformed by a multitude of actors in three parks and conservation areas across Canada. We argue that although recent developments in conservation practice help to ...
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Rooted networks provide a conceptual framework that embeds network thinking in nature-society geography in order to investigate socio-ecological relations, while emphasizing the place-specific materiality of these relations. This progress... more
Rooted networks provide a conceptual framework that embeds network thinking in nature-society geography in order to investigate socio-ecological relations, while emphasizing the place-specific materiality of these relations. This progress report examines how geographers have put the framework into scholarly practice. The conceptual approach has enabled researchers to: 1) articulate the territoriality and materiality of networks as assemblages, which may be simultaneously rooted and mobile; 2) discern diverse types of power that flow through network connections; and 3) conduct analyses that unearth multiply-situated knowledges within networks. Challenges emerge as we seek to integrate the approach more fully with disciplinary traditions, including organizing complex relationships into bounded scholarly formats; choosing which aspects of the network are most salient to Putting Rooted Networks into Practice 960 analyze; and illustrating networks for effective communication. We describe...
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Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Conservation Biology, Conservation, Environmental History, Environmental Anthropology, and 15 moreEcological Economics, Conservation Ecology, Conservation Social Science, Environmental Ethics, Agricultural Water Management, Conservation Science, Environmental Governance, Biological Sciences, Biodiversity Conservation, Biological Conservation, Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning, Conservation Psychology, Conservation Laws, Conservation marketing, and Conservation Governance
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Research Interests: Environmental Sociology, Environmental Education, Environmental Psychology, Conservation Biology, Conservation, and 15 moreEnvironmental Anthropology, Ecological Economics, Community Based Natural Resources Management, Conservation Social Science, Environmental Policy and Governance, Conservation theory and ethics, Environmental Sustainability, Human Dimensions of environmental issues, Conservation Science, Biodiversity Conservation, Human dimensions of wildlife, Conservation Psychology, Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Management, Environmental social sciences, and Environmental social science
The task of incorporating traditional knowledge into the scientific management and conservation of the world's forests is becoming increasingly important. 2 Internationally, organizations and governments have recognized that forests... more
The task of incorporating traditional knowledge into the scientific management and conservation of the world's forests is becoming increasingly important. 2 Internationally, organizations and governments have recognized that forests provide multiple goods and services to both local communities and to the global commons. Managing forests for their multiple attributes thus requires cooperation across scale; between national forestry departments and local communities. 3 There remains significant debate regarding the role of local people in state-led forest management and the importance of traditional knowledge to the goals of sustainable forest management and conservation (Berkes and Folke, 2002; Brown, 2002; Chatty and Colchester, 2002; Terborgh, 2002). However, state-led conservation of increasingly inhabited forest combined with the political economic reality of shrinking budgets and growing civil society indicates an increasing trend towards decentralization and dictates a con...
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Abstract Participatory mapping has become an indispensable tool in the struggle of indigenous peoples to claim their rights to land and resources. It has also, however, come under criticism for its potential to increase state regulation,... more
Abstract Participatory mapping has become an indispensable tool in the struggle of indigenous peoples to claim their rights to land and resources. It has also, however, come under criticism for its potential to increase state regulation, replace indigenous ...
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Abstract: Forest resource management in Thailand bears the mark of its historical position on the margins of colonial power and its present position in a biodiversity hotspot. During the colonial era, British forestry in Burma and India... more
Abstract: Forest resource management in Thailand bears the mark of its historical position on the margins of colonial power and its present position in a biodiversity hotspot. During the colonial era, British forestry in Burma and India had a fundamental influence on the ...
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Research Interests: Environmental Geography, Environmental Economics, Environmental Education, Conservation Biology, Conservation, and 15 moreEnvironmental Anthropology, Ecological Economics, Community Based Natural Resources Management, Conservation Social Science, Conservation Science, Environmental Governance, Biological Sciences, Biodiversity Conservation, Conservation Policy, Biological Conservation, Conservation Psychology, Conservation Laws, Conservation marketing, Conservation and Development, and Conservation of Natural Resources
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During 2001 and 2002, interviews and surveys were conducted in Mae Tho National Park (MTNP) in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, to study ways to resolve park-people conflicts and to develop more equitable and effective mechanism of... more
During 2001 and 2002, interviews and surveys were conducted in Mae Tho National Park (MTNP) in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, to study ways to resolve park-people conflicts and to develop more equitable and effective mechanism of conservation in inhabited forests. The MTNP ...
Abstract Participatory mapping has become an indispensable tool in the struggle of indigenous peoples to claim their rights to land and resources. It has also, however, come under criticism for its potential to increase state regulation,... more
Abstract Participatory mapping has become an indispensable tool in the struggle of indigenous peoples to claim their rights to land and resources. It has also, however, come under criticism for its potential to increase state regulation, replace indigenous ...