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The Impacts of Conservation Practices on Indigenous Populations

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Conservation is a complicated entity consisting of a multitude of professional fields including social issues, cultural issues, and physical science. This thesis evaluates the positive and negative aspects of two broad types of conservation: top down fortress conservation and bottom up community-based conservation. Fortress conservation has many negative aspects, such…

Conservation is a complicated entity consisting of a multitude of professional fields including social issues, cultural issues, and physical science. This thesis evaluates the positive and negative aspects of two broad types of conservation: top down fortress conservation and bottom up community-based conservation. Fortress conservation has many negative aspects, such as displacing human communities and preventing utilization of resources. However, it also has positive aspects, such as preventing the destruction of delicate ecosystems and slowing down extinctions. Community-based conservation is more inclusive and focuses on including the indigenous populations located within the proposed conservation site in the decision-making process. Its negatives include having an anthropocentric goal instead of valuing nature's intrinsic values. Understanding the differences inherent in these two methods is necessary in order to implement a conservation network with the highest chance for success.
ContributorsFink, Laurel Berylline (Author) / Smith, Andrew (Thesis director) / Collins, James (Committee member) / Minteer, Ben (Committee member) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor) / School of Life Sciences (Contributor)
Created2014-05
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Infusing Indigenous Artistic Methodologies and Practices into Western Learning

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This is a qualitative study, to examine how Indigenous ways of knowing could inform Western standardized learning by taking part in a series of learning experiences related to Hula and building connections to the local environment. I enacted a series of site-specific visitations that focused on Indigenous artistic practices related…

This is a qualitative study, to examine how Indigenous ways of knowing could inform Western standardized learning by taking part in a series of learning experiences related to Hula and building connections to the local environment. I enacted a series of site-specific visitations that focused on Indigenous artistic practices related to Hawaii's highest art form, Hula, as well as local sites dedicated to Indigenous environmental preservation. These visits examined dance, chant, talk-story, and environmental practices taught from an Indigenous way of knowing. The purpose of these enactments was to know how embodied learning approaches, informed by Indigenous methodologies, impact learners’ connections to pedagogical content and the learning environment, and how that subject matter was conveyed and received through the embodied act of site-specific visitations. I will address the ways in which understanding through site visits emerged in these Indigenous ways of knowing. I will explain how the Indigenous practices and ways of knowing offer a different understanding of standardized learning, and argue what could be gained by adding these methodologies to art curriculum in site-specific locations.
ContributorsSoudani, Jessica Marie (Author) / Coats, Cala (Thesis advisor) / Young, Bernard (Thesis advisor) / Button, Melissa (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022