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Abstract: "Over this past century the Philippine state has sustained
a campaign to criminalize swidden cultivation among small-
scale farmers in the uplands of Palawan Island. This paper
focuses on how such state conservation agendas unfolded to
negatively affect swidden cultivation among the Tagbanua
people who occupy upland forests flanking Puerto Princesa
Subterranean River National Park. Ethnographic methods
were used to examine a specific case where the traditional
linkages between swidden cultivation and honey collection—
the basis of Tagbanua livelihoods and cultural beliefs—were
devalued as coercive conservation proliferated at the nation-
al park. Park managers upheld the state?s conservation dis-
course that swidden disrupted ?equilibrium” between liveli-
hoods and forest ecology and, upon enforcing such views, ne-
glected the local embeddedness of swidden cultivation. The
conclusion asserts that park management can be enhanced
on both moral and practical grounds by building on the in-
terrelated ecological and cultural value of swidden cultiva-
tion"...
Keywords:
coercive conservation, swidden, honey bees,
Tagbanua, Palawan
Source/publisher:
"Human Ecology Review", Vol. 12, No. 1, 2005
Date of Publication:
2005-00-00
Date of entry:
2015-01-25
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Language:
English
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