From edenic island to endemic park: A historical political ecology of environmental degradation narratives on Réunion (West Indian Ocean)

IF 1.3 2区 历史学 Q2 GEOGRAPHY
Vincent Banos, Bruno Bouet, Philippe Deuffic
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Exploring the premise that environmental injustices date back centuries, this article provides an overview of the long trajectory of degradation narratives on Réunion, from the earliest colonial concerns in the late seventeenth century to the contemporary National Park. Through a historical political ecology approach, we identify distinct phases where degradation narratives became prominent, and sometimes entered into conflict, in the environmental history of this French overseas territory, which was a French colony until 1946. Although degradation narratives have shifted significantly over time, they have also gradually converged to a condemnation of the uplands' inhabitants. So far, this move has reproduced socio-spatial inequalities between the uplands region, dedicated to environmental policies, and the lowlands region, dedicated to a plantation economy. Such an account suggests that environmental inequalities may be constituted through a process of continuous change that involves negotiations and often conflicts among multiple dominant stakeholders. Thus, contemporary conservation regimes should not only improve their governance mode, but need to start by doing justice to conservation’ history, especially dynamics of misrecognition with colonial roots.

从伊甸岛到地方公园:留尼汪(西印度洋)环境退化叙事的历史政治生态学
这篇文章探讨了几个世纪前环境不公正的前提,概述了从17世纪晚期最早的殖民关注到当代国家公园,r union退化叙事的长期轨迹。通过历史政治生态学方法,我们确定了退化叙事变得突出的不同阶段,有时进入冲突,在这片法国海外领土的环境历史中,直到1946年都是法国殖民地。尽管关于退化的叙述随着时间的推移发生了重大变化,但它们也逐渐汇聚到对高地居民的谴责上。到目前为止,这一举措在致力于环境政策的高地地区和致力于种植园经济的低地地区之间再现了社会空间的不平等。这种说法表明,环境不平等可能是通过一个持续变化的过程形成的,这个过程涉及多个占主导地位的利益攸关方之间的谈判和经常发生的冲突。因此,当代保护制度不仅需要改进其治理模式,而且需要从公正对待保护的历史开始,特别是对殖民根源的误认动态。
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期刊介绍: A well-established international quarterly, the Journal of Historical Geography publishes articles on all aspects of historical geography and cognate fields, including environmental history. As well as publishing original research papers of interest to a wide international and interdisciplinary readership, the journal encourages lively discussion of methodological and conceptual issues and debates over new challenges facing researchers in the field. Each issue includes a substantial book review section.
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