This toolkit provides with concepts to think with for a more ethical conservation -its practices, scholarship, and futures.- The concepts are crafted by students in the course Conservation Ethics at William & Mary. Affect Anthrophobia Arrogance (experts) Biopolitics Ecological Colonialism Environmental Kin Study Mastery of Nature Reciprocity Sharing Suffering Utilitarianism Wilderness
1928: Beaver People. Canada. https://www.nfb.ca/film/beaver_people/embed/player/ 1930: Beaver Family (16min). Canada. A short silent film portraying Grey Owl, the famous conservationist, and a family of beavers who would come when he called and take food from his hand without the slightest fear. The film is set in Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba. https://www.nfb.ca/film/beaver_family/embed/player/ 1942: Fur Country.... Continue Reading →
Mara Dicenta (2021) White animals: racializing sheep and beavers in the Argentinian Tierra del Fuego, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2021.2015140 Download Article here:
Mara Dicenta, William & Mary; Julia Morales Fontanilla, Rutgers University; Aadita Chaudhury, York University. Panel organized at the 2021 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Meeting. What does it mean to engage in “good relations” in worlds that unfold after violence and destruction? How does STS respond to wounded worlds? This panel interrogates the... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jo-6elcNhM Panel Presented at the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) meeting 2021: Anthropology & Conservation Since the 1990s, the southern Andes along the Argentinean-Chilean border has seen an unprecedented growth of public and private conservation projects. Such growth has contributed to the transformation of this area from a remote natural resource frontier, whose economic and political... Continue Reading →
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Mara Dicenta & Gonzalo Correa (2021) Worlding the end: A story of colonial and scientific anxieties over beavers' vitalities in the Castorcene, Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2021.1973290 This article examines a technoscientific project for eradicating theNorth American beaver in Tierra del Fuego (TDF), an austral region known as“The End of the World.”Introduced from Canada into TDF... Continue Reading →
Uno de los conceptos más utilizados en los estudios de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad es el de ‘coproducción’ (Jasanoff, 2004), el cual refiere a la inseparabilidad entre ciencia y sociedad, entre la producción de conocimiento y la reproducción de valores y normas sociales a través del mismo. La idea de coproducción intenta abordar los problemas... Continue Reading →
Fin de curso elaborando un estante multi-especixs para traducir los conceptos trabajados en artefactos e ingredientes en nuestras cocinas de pensamiento decolonial más-que-humano. Curso: Biopolítica, necropolítica, y epistemologías multi-especies Tipo: Optativo Créditos: 3 Fecha: Del 9 al 12 de Julio 2018 Cupos: Carga Horaria presencial: 16 horasDocente responsable: Prof. Gonzalo Correa Profesor: Mara DicentaDESTINATARIOS: Estudiantes... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xByovHCrWVQ&ab_channel=STGlobalConsortium Racial justice scholars and advocates have for decades recognized that scientific and academic communities in the United States are affected by and participate in the systemic marginalization of Black and brown communities. There are disproportionately few faculty of color in U.S. higher education, and a combination of structural disadvantage, systemic biases, and widespread prejudices... Continue Reading →
Reparation After Science, Nature, and Settler Colonialism 