Beyond the sacred forest: Complicating conservation in Southeast Asia

摘要

For anyone who has had the good fortune to spend time between the ricefields and rainforests of Southeast Asia, it should be clear that environmental conservation is not a simple topic. Landscape categories such as forest and agriculture intertwine and many commonplace concepts, such as 'sacred forest' or 'conservation', carry influences that do not translate to local contexts. Some well-known debates about 'local' environmental knowledge carry misleading assumptions about spatial scale or indigeneity that hide exactly how 'locality' is defined.