Should We Conserve HALF the Earth? || Neoliberal Nature & the Half Earth Movement

Support the show! Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Mexie One time tip / donation: https://www.paypal.me/MexieYT Stickers: https://www.mexiestore.com/ ___ The LitCritGuy: https://www.youtube.com/c/JonTheLitCritGuy Saint Andrewism: https://www.youtube.com/c/SaintAndrewism Professor Flowers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGZrqXTq3GW2wNRz9M44Baw Silver Spook: https://www.youtube.com/user/twiliteminotaur Tristan (Step Back History): https://www.youtube.com/c/StepBackHistoryChannel Thank you to Dave Jacobs for the animations! ___ 0:00 Introduction 4:20 The Nature of Capital 14:22 Colonialism: Where it All Started 24:53: Neoliberal Conservation 31:44 Conservation Revolution 39:10 Thanks & Credits ___ Books Büscher, B., & Fletcher, R. (2020). The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Conserving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene: Verso Books. Büscher, B., Dressler, W., and Fletcher, R. (2014). Nature Inc.: Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age. University of Arizona Press. Coulthard, G. S. (2014). Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Dempsey, J. (2016). Enterprising Nature: Economics, Markets, and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics. Wiley. Dunbar-Ortiz, R. (2014). An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Beacon Press. ICE. (2018). We rise together: Achieving Pathway to Canada Target 1 through the creation of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas in the spirit of practice of reconciliation. The Indigenous Circle of Experts' report and recommendations. http://www.conservation2020canada.ca/ Kimmerer, R.W. (2013). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed. Mann, C. (2006). 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Vintage. Peet, R., Robbins, P., and Watts, M. (2011). Global Political Ecology. Routledge. Robbins, P., Hintz, J. & Moore, S. (2014). Environment and society: A critical introduction. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford. Shipley, T. (2020). Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination. Fernwood Publishing. Articles Bernauer, W. and Roth, R. Protected areas and extractive hegemony: A case study of marine protected areas in the Qikiqtani (Baffin Island) region of Nunavut, Canada. Geoforum, 120: 208-217. Binnema, T., & Niemi, M. (2006). 'Let the line be drawn now': Wilderness, conservation, and the exclusion of aboriginal people from Banff National Park in Canada. Environmental History, 11(4), 724-750. doi:10.1093/envhis/11.4.724 Büscher, B., Fletcher, R., Brockignton, D., Sandbrook, C., Adams, W., Campbell, L., Corson, C., Dressler, W., Duffy, R., Gray, N., Holmes, G., Kelly, A., Lunstrum, E., Ramutsindela, M, and Shanker, K. (2016). Half-Earth or Whole Earth? Radical ideas for conservation, and their implications. Oryx, 51(3): 407-410. Counsell, Simon. (September 30, 2021). The New ‘Con’ in Conservation: Why the Proposed Voluntary, Paris Agreement-Style, ‘30×30’ Target for Protected Areas Won’t Save the World’s Biodiversity. Counter Punch. Cronon, W. (1996). The trouble with wilderness: Or, getting back to the wrong nature. Environmental History, 1 (1), 7-28. Davis, H., & Todd, Z. (2017). On the importance of a date, or, decolonizing the Anthropocene. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 16(4), 761-780. Fletcher, R. (2013). Bodies Do Matter: The Peculiar Persistence of Neoliberalism in Environmental Governance. Human Geography, 6(1): 29-45. Fletcher, R. and Rammelt, C. (2017) Decoupling: A Key Fantasy of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda. Globalizations, 14:3, 450-467. Holmes, G., and Cavangh, C. (2016). A review of the social impacts of neoliberal conservation: Formations, inequalities, contestations. Geoforum, 75: 199-209. Igoe, J., & Brockington, D. (2007). Neoliberal conservation: A brief introduction. Conservation & Society, 5(4), 432-449. Massé, F. and Lunstrum, E. (2016). Accumulation by securitization: Commercial poaching, neoliberal conservation, and the creation of new wildlife frontiers. Geoforum, 69:227-237. McAfee, K. (1999). Selling nature to save it? Biodiversity and green developmentalism. Environment and Planning D 17: 133-154. Sandlos, J. (2008). Not wanted in the boundary: The expulsion of the Keeseekoowenin Ojibway Band from Riding Mountain National Park. Canadian Historical Review, 89(2), 189-221. Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 1-40. Videos The Story of Stuff: https://youtu.be/9GorqroigqM Our Changing Climate - Why the United States is Killing the World: https://youtu.be/KYu_WOrL_gM Saint Andrewism - How We Can Make Solarpunk A Reality (ft Our Changing Climate): https://youtu.be/u-JvyfZVkIM Jessica Dempsey - Enterprising Nature: https://youtu.be/kGoxXPRY0V8 #neoliberalconservation #halfearth #indigenousledconservation


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