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Appropriate Targets: Global Patterns in Interaction and Conflict Surrounding Cetacean Conservation and Traditional Marine Hunting Communities

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Durney, Florence·2020·Environment and Society
DOI 10.3167/ares.2020.110104
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With the International Whaling Commission’s 1982 moratorium on commercial whaling in force, much of today’s cetacean hunting is done by traditional or indigenous communities for subsistence use. However, many communities continue to face pressure from other global stakeholders to stop. Informed by my research with marine hunters in Indonesia, this article combines scholarship from biology, philosophy, and law with global anthropology on cetacean hunting groups to explore a set of recurring arguments arising between hunting communities, management and conservation bodies, and publics. These include the role of charismatic species in Western imagination and conservation; how understandings of animal sentience determine acceptable prey; disputes about the authenticity of and control over traditional hunting practice; and the entanglement of cultural sovereignty and rights to animal resources. Bringing these arguments together allows for an examination of how the dominant global discourse about traditional whaling is shaped and how it affects extant hunting communities.

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  • Conflicts over whaling and other similar debates, such as hunting and fishing rights, are directly linked to political and legal infrastructures that have historically worked to marginalise and even erase Indigeneity and Indigenous practices.

    “Conflicts over whaling and other similar debates, such as hunting and fishing rights, are directly linked to political and legal infrastructures that have historically worked to marginalise and even erase Indigeneity and Indigenous practices (see Harris, 2008; Muehlmann, 2009; Durney, 2020).”

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  1. Between 2016 and 2017, I did 13 months of ethnographic fi eldwork with small-scale coastal commu- nities in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Th is research, the bulk of my dissertation, focused on the traditions of three coastal communities in two districts, including Lamalera, and their adaptations to socioeconomic change, tourism, and marine conservation programs.
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Authors
Durney, F.
Affiliations
University of Oslo (NO)
Corresponding author
Durney, Florence
Venue
Environment and Society
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Published
2020-09-01
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
44-63
ISSN
  • 2150-6779 (ISSN-L)
  • 2150-6787
DOI
10.3167/ares.2020.110104
OpenAlex
W3094766613
Cited by
7
References
100
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 4
FWCI
3.27
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Environment and Society (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Universitetet i Oslo
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Indigenous Studies and Ecology
  • Social Sciences › Law › Animal Law and Welfare
Keywords
subsistence hunting, indigenous peoples, charismatic species, animal sentience, cultural sovereignty, conservation discourse

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