Welcome to the LARRI webinar: Against coloniality in tropical conservation: an agenda for just transformations. Presentation by Dr Mathew Bukhi Mabele and Iddi Mwanyoka, Department of Geography, University of Dodoma.
There is a dearth of creative analyses to envisage the disruption of coloniality in tropical conservation science, policy and practice. We hereby conceptualize a transformative agenda to realize such a vision through three broad thematic areas. Firstly, we posit decolonial curricula with alternative conservation pedagogies to imagine a new generation of conservation professionals with unlimited curiosity and appreciation of diversity in knowledge systems. Secondly, we analyse radical alternatives to the resurging protectionism in the tropical environments, specifically critiquing the current global biodiversity target of ’30-by-30’ and highlighting conservation practices that support harmonious people-nature coexistence. Thirdly, we discuss alternative conservation funding mechanisms that are built on redistribution of financial resources and sources that are less susceptible to global economic forces.
These thematic areas convey a transformative agenda that creates enabling conditions for decolonial conservation, as the agenda nurtures different ways of thinking about and engaging in tropical biodiversity conservation.
: 1. Presentation by Dr Mathew Bukhi Mabele and Iddi Mwanyoka, Department of Geography, University of Dodoma (50 mins).
2. Short break (10 mins). 3. Plenary discussion (50 mins).
The Land Rights Research Initiative (LARRI) is an initiative hosted by the Unit of Human Geography, Department of Economy and Society at University of Gothenburg. The initiative was launched 2012 and is meant as a platform for discussion, exchange of ideas and information as well as for promoting collaboration among researchers, students and other actors interested in land rights issues from a poverty and development perspective in a context of global change.