Cultural Hybridity and the Environment, Kirsten Maclean

Dedication.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Table of Contents.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- List of acronyms and abbreviations.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- 1.1: Chapter abstract.- 1.2: A framework for cultural hybridity.- 1.3: Epistemological tools.- 1.4: Empirical case studies show local dimensions of the wider complexities of ecologically sustainable development.- 1.4.1: Empirical case studies.- 1.5: Book structure.- 1.6: Reference list.- Part 1: The foundations for a new conceptual framework for cultural hybridity.- Chapter 2: An environmental and social crisis?.- 2.1: Chapter abstract.- 2.2: Is there a crisis?.- 2.3: A critique of contemporary development theory.- 2.4: The sustainable development era.- 2.5: Sustainable development as participation.- 2.6: Sustainable development as knowledge(s).- 2.7: Social and institutional learning for ecologically sustainable development.- 2.8: Environmental governance in Australia.- 2.9: Conclusion.- 2.10: Reference list.- Chapter 3: An applied peoples geography as the basis of the framework for cultural hybridity.- 3.1: Chapter abstract.- 3.2: Power is an entangled and complex force.- 3.3: A critique of knowledge generation.- 3.3.1: A foray into the history and philosophy of science.- 3.3.2: Knowledge is connected to place.- 3.3.3: Situated knowledges move through networks.- 3.4: Governance scale is a relational social construct.- 3.5: Colonial discourses of nature.- 3.6: Conclusion.- 3.7: Reference list.- Part 2: Edge politics-in-action.- Chapter 4: Political landscapes.- 4.1: Chapter abstract.- 4.2: Regional Natural Resource Management in Australia.- 4.3: Regionalism in Victoria and the Northern Territory.- 4.4: Case study 1: threatened species in the landscape.- 4.5: Case study 2: fire in the landscape.- 4.6: Together, lets give our land a hand.- 4.6.1: The complexities of together-ness.- 4.6.2: Varieties of Regionalism.- 4.6.3: A diversity of hands for Natural Resource Management in Australia.- 4.6.4: The view from the local.- 4.7: Conclusion.- 4.8: Reference list.- Chapter 5: Cultural landscapes.- 5.1: Chapter abstract.- 5.2: Case study narratives.- 5.3: Historical narratives.- 5.4: Contemporary realities.- 5.5: Difference and diversity across the landscape.- 5.6: Embedded powers across the landscape.- 5.7: Conclusion.- 5.8: Reference list.- Part 3: Local voices in the landscape.- Chapter 6: Spaces of environmental governance.- 6.1: Chapter abstract.- 6.2: Environmental governance is connected to place.- 6.3: The relational characteristics of environmental governance.- 6.4: The networked characteristics of environmental governance.- 6.5: The entangled characteristics of environmental governance.- 6.6: Conclusion.- 6.7: Reference list.- Chapter 7: Spaces of environmental management.- 7.1: Chapter abstract.- 7.2: Project success is synonymous with community involvement.- 7.3: Varieties of participation.- 7.4: Varieties of environmental management.- 7.5: Conclusion.- 7.6: Reference list.- Part 4: Knowledge networks across the landscape.- Chapter 8: Politics of knowledge.- 8.1: Chapter abstract.- 8.2: The power of place-based knowledge.- 8.3: Local community knowledge encompasses diverse knowledge cultures.- 8.4: Local community knowledge determines the success of environmental management projects.- 8.5: Conclusion.- 8.6: Reference list.- Chapter 9: Varieties of local knowledge.- 9.1: Chapter abstract.- 9.2: The potential of local community knowledge.- 9.3: Place-based characteristics of government knowledge.- 9.4: Knowledge cultures active in local environmental management and community development projects.- 9.5: Celebrating the limitations of local knowledge.- 9.6: The dangers of knowledge dichotomies.- 9.7: Conclusion.- 9.8: Reference list.- Part 5: Strategies for cultural hybridity.- Chapter 10: Practising cultural hybridity for the third space.- 10.1: Chapter abstract.- 10.2: Processes for an applied cultural hybridity.- 10.3: Practising an applie