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Is Being Green, White? A Critical Ethnographic Study Of Social Norms In Conservation, Heather Whitesides
Is Being Green, White? A Critical Ethnographic Study Of Social Norms In Conservation, Heather Whitesides
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Attempts to measure and implement conservation norms have consistently upheld and promoted the dominant culture’s practices and beliefs. This has led to oppression of non-dominant populations, thereby hindering these populations’ access to various opportunities to participate in conservation based activities. This has historically, and still today, led to the segregation of non-dominant populations from environmental participation and has misrepresented their beliefs and actions relative to definitions of conservation citizenship and in the broader literature on conservation, conservation measurements, outdoor recreation, and pro-environmental behavior.
This research sought to extend the existing literature on conservation, specifically on the measurements of recreation practices …