Graefe Olivier

Morality and the development of national parks: Social and political negotiations in Abel Tasman National Park (New Zealand) and in Park Adula (Switzerland)

Project Number: 10001A_152785

Project Type:	Research_Project
Project Duration:	06/01/2014 - 05/31/2017
Funding Source:	SNSF ,
Leading Institution:	Université de Fribourg
Project Leader:	Prof. Olivier Graefe Dépt. des Géosciences - Géographie Université de Fribourg PER 14 bu. 3.337 Chemin du Musée 4 1700 Fribourg Phone: +41 (0) 26 300 90 17 ; +41 (0) 26 300 90 10 FAX: +41 (0) 26 300 97 46 e-Mail: olivier.graefe(at)unifr.ch http://www.unifr.ch/geoscience/geographie

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Research Areas:

Governance

Disciplines:

Social geography and Ecology

Keywords:
environmental geography, political ecology, park identities, national park management, environmental ethics, nature conservation

Abstract:

This project undertakes a comparison of the Abel Tasman national park of New Zealand and Park Adula candidate national park of Switzerland. The aim here is to explore environmental evaluations and the justifications attached to these evaluations, in their specific social, political and environmental contexts, in order to identify and understand distinctive moral foundations within park negotiations. Key emphasis will be placed on understanding the types of moralities that stakeholders are both mobilized by, and act as mobilizer of, within park negotiations, as well as understanding the role that these moralities play in the production and re-production of national park spaces, places and natures. A comparison will be used as a method rather than an aim, to explore and understand the processes of morality in park negotiations, as well as grasp the role that this process plays in the understandings and meanings that are attached to national parks. The theoretical framework for understanding and comparing these moralities will engage with recent sociological work on cultural comparisons of patterns of evaluation and justification. Ethnographic methods and analysis of documents (including text and images) will be used to gain understandings of the moralities embedded within the ordinary practices of park actors as they participate in park negotiations.

Thus, this project’s contribution to broader debates is to put the role of morality onto the agenda of research and management of national parks. Furthermore, by closely monitoring the negotiations that are occurring in these two parks, this study will inform park administrators as to common interests and principles, foundations for dialogue and compromises within park discussions. Thus this study will contribute to adjust negotiations between stakeholders in opposition and ultimately, provide answers to the role democracy and the participation of people plays in the creation and management of conservation areas in Switzerland and New Zealand.

URL: http://p3.snf.ch/project-152785

Source of Information: NF Import 2014


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