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of Geography Seminar Series:<span> </span>PhD
Completion Seminar - Conservation as Territoriality and Transitional
Environmentality in Timor-Leste</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Alexander Cullen,
Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Tuesday 25 August 2015,
1pm-2pm</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri">Theatre 2, basement, 221
Bouverie St, Carlton, University of Melbourne</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:125%;font-family:Calibri">Despite decades of critical attention, the
geographical bounding of indigenously managed areas for conservation continues
to produce controversial outcomes. Common experiences of such bounding include
diminished livelihood opportunities from resource exclusion and increases in
land conflicts. Contemporaneous with these are the reshaping of community-state
power relations that facilitate an institutional penetration, or
territorialisation of indigenous spaces. This talk explores these themes in
Timor-Leste, arguing the instigation of the first National Park and the protected
area network reflect attempts to integrate marginal areas into the modern state
apparatus. Undergirding the legitimacy of the conservation program to drive
this outcome are processes aiming to (re)produce environmental citizens,
discourses and behaviors, known as envirionmentality. Using comparative examples it is shown that
such processes in Timor-Leste are weakly executed, resulting in uneven social,
environmental, customary and political local costs that in effect unravel the
new eco-political subjectivities and identities the state seeks to assemble.
Reflecting on these concerns, contemporary understandings of environmentality
(as static or hegemonic) are challenged as deficient, in lieu of new, nuanced
examinations emphasizing the transitional and temporal nature of the Timorese
experience. Doing so points to emerging future opportunities of resistance and local articulations of environmental sovereignty. </span></p><span><font color="#888888">
<div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Alexander Cullen<br><br>PhD Candidate<br>University of Melbourne<br>Dept of Geography and Resource Management<div>+61 (03) 83449302</div></div></div>
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