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Environmental leaders and Indigenous engagement in Australia: a cosmopolitan enterprise?
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McGaurr, L and Tranter, B and Lester, L, Environmental leaders and Indigenous engagement in Australia: a cosmopolitan enterprise?, Conservation and Society, 14, (3) pp. 254-266. ISSN 0972-4923 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright Statement
Copyright: © McGaurr et al 2016. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic (CC BY 2.5) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/2.5 Generic (CC BY 2.5)
Official URL: http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?...
DOI: doi:10.4103/0972-4923.191163
Abstract
The World Heritage Convention protects sites of universal natural and cultural values, sometimes in combination.
In 2015, it was amended to incorporate references to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples (UNDRIP). International conventions are always in danger of becoming the hand-maidens of their
signatory states. When evidence emerges that they have succumbed, it fuels criticism of cosmopolitanism. At the
same time, environmental leaders sometimes clash with Indigenous people over efforts to conserve the natural
values of traditional lands for the ‘global good’. This article asks how international instruments with cosmopolitan
ambitions influence the discourse and practice of national and subnational environmentalists attempting to find
common ground with Indigenous groups. Drawing on interviews with 25 Australian environmental leaders, it
finds the World Heritage Convention and UNDRIP have encouraged a pragmatic cosmopolitan practice among
environmentalists, despite continuing intercultural differences in some quarters.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | cosmopolitanism, environmental movement, Indigenous movement, Indigenous rights, World Heritage, UNDRIP, informed consent, environmental conflict |
| Research Division: | Studies in Human Society |
| Research Group: | Sociology |
| Research Field: | Environmental Sociology |
| Objective Division: | Cultural Understanding |
| Objective Group: | Communication |
| Objective Field: | Communication not elsewhere classified |
| UTAS Author: | McGaurr, L (Dr Lynette McGaurr) |
| UTAS Author: | Tranter, B (Professor Bruce Tranter) |
| UTAS Author: | Lester, L (Professor Libby Lester) |
| ID Code: | 111401 |
| Year Published: | 2016 |
| Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (DP130102154) |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 3 |
| Deposited By: | Social Sciences |
| Deposited On: | 2016-09-09 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-02-13 |
| Downloads: | 115 View Download Statistics |
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