Abstract
"People should also look after the people": relational values of wildlife and collectively titled land in Ilkisongo Maasai group ranches in Southern Kenya
Highlights
IntroductionMaterial-immaterial, and natural-cultural dichotomies that are inherent to ES/cultural ecosystem services (CES) approaches have been critiqued as representing a hegemonic Western worldview (Hirons et al 2016, Muraca 2016), whereas authors focusing on nature’s contribution to people emphasize the importance of “culture” and Indigenous knowledge in all aspects of human-nonhuman relations in global environmental and biodiversity conservation initiatives (e.g., Díaz et al 2015)
The ecosystem services (ES) concept has increasingly been used to address the value of benefits of “nature” to humans in environmental management and conservation interventions
With a case study of Ilkisongo Maasai land users living in group ranches surrounding Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, we apply a relational values approach to highlight the processes of valuation that shape how different people within Maasai society come to have different shared values of wildlife and collectively titled land
Summary
Material-immaterial, and natural-cultural dichotomies that are inherent to ES/CES approaches have been critiqued as representing a hegemonic Western worldview (Hirons et al 2016, Muraca 2016), whereas authors focusing on nature’s contribution to people emphasize the importance of “culture” and Indigenous knowledge in all aspects of human-nonhuman relations in global environmental and biodiversity conservation initiatives (e.g., Díaz et al 2015). A relational values framework has the potential to incorporate a broader understanding of value and a wider diversity of human-nonhuman relations into conservation approaches. Doing the latter has long been argued for by conservation social scientists, if in different ways (Sandbrook et al 2013, Bennett et al 2017)
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