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Title: | The Absent Agent: Orangutans, Communities, and Conservation in Indonesian Borneo |
Authors: | Schreer, V |
Keywords: | absence;flagship species;extinction;orangutan conservation;Indonesia;Borneo |
Issue Date: | 6-Dec-2022 |
Publisher: | Wolters Kluwer - Medknow, Mumbai on behalf of Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment |
Citation: | Schreer, V. (2023) 'The Absent Agent: Orangutans, Communities, and Conservation in Indonesian Borneo', Conservation and Society, 21 (1), pp. 17 - 27. doi: 10.4103/cs.cs_120_21. |
Abstract: | Copyright: © Schreer 2022. In a time of unprecedented species loss, whose absence matters in international biodiversity conservation? Who or what is made absent in this process, and how? Drawing on scholarship that focuses on the agency of absence, this article explores how the orangutan (Pongo spp.)—a popular conservation flagship species—becomes present in Bornean villagers' lives. It offers a new understanding of flagship species action by examining the complex, often unseen relational dynamics through which orangutans influence community-conservation encounters. As the study shows, conservationists' efforts to mitigate the absence of species through a combination of imaginative, discursive, and material variables inadvertently 'absences' Bornean villagers and their concerns. Reflecting on this process of absencing, the paper moreover discusses how notions of absence inform contemporary conservation thought and action. |
Description: | Data Availability: The data presented in the manuscript is not accessible due to privacy restrictions. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/27956 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_120_21 |
ISSN: | 0972-4923 |
Other Identifiers: | ORCID iD: Viola Schreer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9733-7819 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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