Friend,
This Thursday, I’m honored to participate in the Natural History Museum’s virtual symposium : Unfence the Future: Taking Down Fortress Conservation and its Enduring Legacy.
The full event is two days and you are welcome and encouraged to sign
up for FREE to attend the whole thing. I know it’s going to be
informative, fun, and empowering.
I will be moderating the panel discussion : Defending the
Sacred in Law and Policy this Thursday, April 13 starting at 3:45pm
Eastern Time.
Whether you choose to attend both days, one day or even just my panel, I hope you’ll sign up here to join us now.
RSVP HERE
Here’s what the Natural History Museum says about the two day event (remember I’m only a part of a panel on the second day) :
Fences create artificial borders between places and mediate the
relations between them -- what goes in, what comes out, and under what
conditions. Without the lines that fences inscribe, there would be no
place for border police. Nor could lands be parceled up, claimed as
property to be possessed or plundered.
In the history of conservation, the logic of fencing was
institutionalized in what critics call “fortress conservation,” a
project of drawing boundaries between designated wilderness areas and
their outsides, expelling perceived threats to ecological balance --
from Indigenous Peoples, to predator species. In the process, habitats
have been fragmented, and lifeworlds devastated.
While the science of fortress conservation has been widely discredited, we continue to live in its world.
Where did this model come from ? Where does it endure ? How is it
encoded in current laws, policies, and institutional practices -- and
more broadly, in our ways of seeing, understanding, and relating to the
land ? And what are activists, communities, and institutions doing to take it down ?
Join
community leaders, conservationists, legal scholars, geographers,
historians, activists, and artists for a free online symposium dedicated
to dismantling fortress conservation and its enduring legacy. Sign up
for FREE for both days, one day, or even just a single panel here.
I hope you are able to join us.
Hawwih (thank you in Caddo),
Judith Le Blanc (Caddo)
Executive Director.
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