Claus, C. Anne (Author)
University of Minnesota Press
Physical Details: 256
Language: English
How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life. Drawing the Sea Near opens a new window to our understanding of transnational conservation by investigating projects in Okinawa shaped by a “conservation-near” approach—which draws on the senses, the body, and memory to collapse the distance between people and their surroundings and to foster collaboration and equity between coastal residents and transnational conservation organizations. This approach contrasts with the traditional Western “conservation-far” model premised on the separation of humans from the environment.Based on twenty months of participant observation and interviews, this richly detailed, engagingly written ethnography focuses on Okinawa’s coral reefs to explore an unusually inclusive, experiential, and socially just approach to conservation. In doing so, C. Anne Claus challenges orthodox assumptions about nature, wilderness, and the future of environmentalism within transnational organizations. She provides a compelling look at how transnational conservation organizations—in this case a field office of the World Wide Fund for Nature in Okinawa—negotiate institutional expectations for conservation with localized approaches to caring for ocean life. In pursuing how particular projects off the coast of Japan unfolded, Drawing the Sea Near illuminates the real challenges and possibilities of work within the multifaceted transnational structures of global conservation organizations. Uniquely, it focuses on the conservationists themselves: why and how has their approach to project work changed, and how have they themselves been transformed in the process?
...MoreSimilar Citations
Book
Ramachandra Guha;
(2024)
Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism
Book
Lewis, Michael L.;
(2007)
American Wilderness: A New History
Article
Nadasdy, Paul;
(2005)
Transcending the Debate over the Ecologically Noble Indian: Indigenous Peoples and Environmentalism
Chapter
Tomblin, David;
(2013)
White Mountain Apache Boundary-Work as an Instrument of Ecopolitical Liberation and Landscape Change
Chapter
Jørgensen, Dolly;
(2013)
Environmentalists on Both Sides: Enactments in the California Rigs-to-Reefs Debate
Chapter
Williams, John Alexander;
(2005)
Protecting Nature between Democracy and Dictatorship: The Changing Ideology of the Bourgeois Conservationist Movement, 1925-1935
Book
Drake, Brian Allen;
(2013)
Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan
Book
Jamie Lorimer;
(2015)
Wildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation After Nature
Article
Knight, Catherine;
(2010)
The Nature Conservation Movement in Post-War Japan
Article
Kayo Sawada;
(2016)
Cold War Geopolitics of Population and Reproduction in Okinawa under US Military Occupation, 1945–1972
Article
Hiromi Mizuno;
(2024)
Okinawa Agriculture and the Sterile Insect Technique
Book
Andrew S. Tompkins;
(2016)
Better Active than Radioactive!: Anti-Nuclear Protest in 1970s France and West Germany
Book
Brian Frehner;
Kathleen A. Brosnan;
(2021)
The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories
Article
Kiri Paramore;
(2017)
Chinese Medicine, Western Medicine and Confucianism: Japanese State Medicine and the Knowledge Cosmopolis of Early Modern East Asia
Multimedia Object
Mark Klobas;
Jürgen P. Melzer;
(2020)
Jürgen Melzer, “Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation” (Harvard UP, 2020)
Book
Annika A. Culver;
(2022)
Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology
Book
Yuriko Furuhata;
(2022)
Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control
Book
Jürgen P. Melzer;
(2020)
Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation
Article
Kenji Ito;
(2024)
Transnational scientific advising: Occupied Japan, the United States National Academy of Sciences and the establishment of the Science Council of Japan
Book
Nancy Langston;
(2017)
Sustaining Lake Superior: An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World
Be the first to comment!