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conservation, enclosure, and ownership in the Bahamas
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Conservation, enclosure, and ownership in the Bahamas
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Wise
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Sarah Pence
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Sarah Wise
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Rutgers University
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This dissertation examines how people negotiate rightful ownership and access to contested space undergoing governance change. Based on 24 months of ethnographic research on protected area conservation in The Bahamas, this dissertation explores how people maintain and transgress material and symbolic boundaries as the west side of Andros Island transitions from a locally-valued commons to globally-valued protected area. In response to growing global concerns over declining fisheries and vulnerability of small island nations, the Bahamas Government has declared large tracts of land and sea as protected areas throughout the archipelago nation. Andros Island, as the largest and most rural island, has been reconfigured as an ideal location for protection, as an island both abundant in natural resources and vulnerable to change. In Andros, access and ownership claims are managed though multilayered customs and laws including long-standing oral tenure institutions. Conservationists, Bahamian residents, scientists, and resource users claim rights of access to resources and space through socially embedded processes which create, impose, maintain, bridge, transpose and dispute boundaries. Discernible differences exist in each person’s claim, not only in the types of boundaries marked by individuals from different social spheres, but in how people enact a sense of entitlement and rightful claim through different ideas of legitimacy and belonging. My research finds that personal and social attributes such as class, race, and social and economic status inform how people: 1) perceive the environment as well as policies of protected area enclosure, and 2) negotiate particular spatial and social boundaries including property claims, knowledge claims, resource access rights, and belonging. What constitutes a rightful claim of access and ownership is not a fixed phenomenon, but reflects fluid social positioning, such as racial identity, kinship, and knowledge performativity. Ignoring the divergence in how people make claims can lead to a mismatch in resource management strategies, (and ultimately to failed policy initiatives), as well as loss of material and symbolic wealth and security among people living near protected areas.
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Anthropology
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xi, 286 p. : ill.
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by Sarah Pence Wise
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Marine parks and reserves--Bahamas--Andros Island
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Land tenure--Bahamas--Andros Island
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Sarah
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after October 31st, 2013.
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