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  • Overcoming racism in the twin spheres of conservation science and practice

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    Author(s)
    Rudd, LF
    Allred, S
    Bright Ross, JG
    Hare, D
    Nkomo, MN
    Shanker, K
    Allen, T
    Biggs, D
    Dickman, A
    Dunaway, M
    Ghosh, R
    González, NT
    Kepe, T
    Mbizah, MM
    Middleton, SL
    et al.
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    Biggs, Duan
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    It is time to acknowledge and overcome conservation's deep-seated systemic racism, which has historically marginalized Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) communities and continues to do so. We describe how the mutually reinforcing 'twin spheres' of conservation science and conservation practice perpetuate this systemic racism. We trace how institutional structures in conservation science (e.g. degree programmes, support and advancement opportunities, course syllabuses) can systematically produce conservation graduates with partial and problematic conceptions of conservation's history and contemporary purposes. ...
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    It is time to acknowledge and overcome conservation's deep-seated systemic racism, which has historically marginalized Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) communities and continues to do so. We describe how the mutually reinforcing 'twin spheres' of conservation science and conservation practice perpetuate this systemic racism. We trace how institutional structures in conservation science (e.g. degree programmes, support and advancement opportunities, course syllabuses) can systematically produce conservation graduates with partial and problematic conceptions of conservation's history and contemporary purposes. Many of these graduates go on to work in conservation practice, reproducing conservation's colonial history by contributing to programmes based on outmoded conservation models that disproportionately harm rural BIPOC communities and further restrict access and inclusion for BIPOC conservationists. We provide practical, actionable proposals for breaking vicious cycles of racism in the system of conservation we have with virtuous cycles of inclusion, equality, equity and participation in the system of conservation we want.
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    Journal Title
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
    Volume
    288
    Issue
    1962
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1871
    Copyright Statement
    © 2021 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
    Subject
    Biological sciences
    Sociology
    BIPOC
    anti-racism
    colonialism
    diversity
    equity
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/411600
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