Feminist Conservation

Name: Feminist Conservation
Brand: Yale University Press
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Politics and Power in Madagascar's Marine Commons

By: Merrill Baker-Medard

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Paperback | 28 January 2025 | Edition Number 1

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How access to and control over marine resources in Madagascar are negotiated, and the inextricable link between equity and sustainability

As marine conservation becomes an increasingly urgent issue around the world, there is an equally critical need to understand the ways different conservation interventions attend to or exacerbate social inequality. This book explores the origins of a conservation agenda in Madagascar and the consequences of its neglect of gender.

Drawing on interviews, ecological and social surveys, archival research, and several years of living with fishers in Madagascar, Merrill Baker-Medard examines how access to and control over marine resources are negotiated from fishing villages to the conference rooms of international meetings. Her intersectional approach bridges conservation science, gender studies, and human geography to advance the idea that equity and sustainability are inextricably linked and that practices of reciprocity, accountability, and care are foundational to their achievement.

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"By carefully weaving together first-hand fisher accounts and multi-scalar analysis, Feminist Conservation explains how marine protected areas impact gendered 'fishing on foot' practices and essential environmental knowledge. This well-researched work offers hopeful and clear paths toward doing conservation otherwise."-Ingrid L. Nelson, coeditor of Practising Feminist Political Ecologies

"What if thirty years of 'community-based conservation' was a step in the right direction, but blind to global forces and local injustices? Feminist Conservation offers a more caring and effective path, grounded in empathetic ethnographic fieldwork."-Christian Kull, author of Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar

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