Biodiversity Conservation or the Construction and Disappearance of “the Local”
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2007.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : This article examines the concept of 'local' in the context of globalisation. Based on biodiversity conservation policies in southern Africa, the article shows that the construction of a 'local community' institutionalises situations with no local economic rationality, even though that rationality is the core of community empowerment policies. The article also demonstrates that the mobilisation in support of conservation shows strong similarities with global capitalist trends when these become intangible and dissolve borders between work and private life. This mobilisation thus seems set to invalidate the concept of 'local'.
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This article examines the concept of 'local' in the context of globalisation. Based on biodiversity conservation policies in southern Africa, the article shows that the construction of a 'local community' institutionalises situations with no local economic rationality, even though that rationality is the core of community empowerment policies. The article also demonstrates that the mobilisation in support of conservation shows strong similarities with global capitalist trends when these become intangible and dissolve borders between work and private life. This mobilisation thus seems set to invalidate the concept of 'local'.
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