Wild Profusion Science Studies Postcolonialism

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Wild ProfusionScience Studies
Postcolonialism

• Postcolonialism
• Time after colonialism
• Social relations among Indonesians
• Elites, locals
• Social relations between Indonesians and
  outsiders
• Subalterns, p.42
• Relations between Scientists Togeans and
  between Conservationists Togean Islanders
• Data, theory
• Indonesian scientists in the middle, p. 52,
  making Indonesian modernity science, p. 52

• Science Studies
• the interdisciplinary study of how social,
  political, and cultural values affect the
  practice of science
• the study of how science affects society and
  culture
• What are the social facts of science and
  conservation in Indonesia?

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Wild ProfusionScience Studies
Birds Head Peninsula Conservation
Internationals Work in Indonesia

• How do transnational scientists do science?
• Biologists
• Conservationists
• CIs How We Discover
• How do Indonesian scientists do science?

• What do fishermen do?
• How does Celia Lowe do ethnography?

Togean Corals on Youtube
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Wild ProfusionScience Studies
Birds Head Peninsula Conservation
Internationals Work in Indonesia

• How do transnational scientists do science?
• Biologists
• Conservationists
• CIs How We Discover
• How do Indonesian scientists do science?

• What do fishermen do?
• How does Celia Lowe do ethnography?

Togean Corals on Youtube
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Wild ProfusionScience Studies
An example of a sea cucumber (Holothuria polii).

• What is knowledge?
• Scientific knowledge local knowledge are they
  the same or are they different?
• How is the creation of the state (Indonesia)
  connected to the emergence of science and
  conservation in Indonesia?

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Wild ProfusionCharacters Places

• Characters
• Dr. Jatna Supriatna

• Places

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Wild ProfusionScience Studies

• What is the social life of science?
• history of facts, p. 33
• Reasoning in Togeans about biodiversity
  conservation, p. 33
• Whats behind this naturalists research
• Wallaces On the Physical Geography of the Malay
  Archipelago. 1863. Journal of the Royal
  Geographical Society of London.
• Or this scientific study
• Supriatnas All Sectors of Society Must Work
  Together to Preserve Biodiversity. 2001. Nature.

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Wild ProfusionScience Studies

• How did people make the Togean macaque?
• Tarsier
• IUCN Red List
• Tonkean macaque
• IUCN Red List

Tarsier
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Wild ProfusionPostcolonialism
Sulawesi Crested Macaque

• What are postcolonial nature and science in
  Indonesia?
• Indonesian State controls foreigners doing
  science
• Requires visas for foreign researchers
• Local history counts, p. 48, 49
• Ethics
• Collaborate, p. 42
• Compensate
• Training
• Recognition, p. 42
• Develop human resources, p. 42
• Endemic labeling is a strategy, p. 48
• Lowes Theory of Standpoint, p. 51

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Wild ProfusionThemes
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Wild ProfusionThemes

• Perspectives on biodiversity conservation
• Perspectives on nature nature making
• Sama culture
• Dispel myths about Sama
• Mobility/territoriality, natural resources
  management,
• Hybrid knowledge
• science magic/enchantment
• Coexistence/overlap science beliefs
• Reason
• cognitive processes of Indonesian scientists and
  Sama
• Nation building

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Uneasy Bedfellows? Contrasting Models of
Conservation in Peninsular MalaysiaLye Tuck-Po

• Batek
• Population 700
• Language Austro-Asiatic
• Mobile, forest-dwelling, hunter-gatherers of
  Peninsular Malaysia
• Lowland tropical rainforest
• Banff Film Festival
• The Last Nomads"

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Uneasy Bedfellows? Contrasting Models of
Conservation in Peninsular MalaysiaLye Tuck-Po

• Differences in understandings of the role of
  people in forests
• Batek model
• Forest dwellers guard the forest without
  people the forest disappears
• Conservation begins with practical interactions
  with environmental processes
• Conservation is about relations with various
  visible and invisible components of the universe
• Knowledge comes from 1) superhuman beings and
  deceased elders and 2) interacting with each
  other and the environment
• Scientific knowledge is inappropriate, intrusive,
  and restricts their freedom
• Anthropocentric view
• People have critical role in maintaining the
  environment
• Conservationist model
• Urban people protect the forest
• Conservation begins by taking people out of the
  forest
• Knowledge comes from research academic
  institutions
• Ecocentric view
• People have marginal role in shaping the
  environment

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Uneasy Bedfellows? Contrasting Models of
Conservation in Peninsular MalaysiaLye Tuck-Po

• Tuck-Pos recommendations
• Conservation projects should address problems of
  nature and problems of society
• Create and recreate the social conditions that
  promote a more inclusive view of nature that is
  inside/integrated with society
• Consider Batek paradigm because it has historical
  roots in the forest and can outlast future
  changes in governing personnel of conservation
  organizations

Tuck Po in Action by Bion Griffin
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Wild ProfusionLias Models

• Differences in natures
• Sama models
• Indonesian elites model
• Foreign Scientists Conservationists models

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Wild ProfusionLias Recommendations

• Friendship
• Care