Indigenous Peoples, National Parks, and Protected Areas: A New Paradigm Linking Conservation, Culture, and Rights

Editor and Contributors

361 Editor and Contributors About the Editor Stan Stevens, Ph.D., is a faculty member in geography at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the editor (and contributing author) of Conservation through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas (1997) and the author of Claiming the High Ground: Sherpas, Subsistence , and Environmental Change in the Highest Himalaya (1993). Stevens ’s research in cultural and political ecology has focused on Indigenous peoples, land use, and conservation in Nepal. Since the early 1980s, he has worked with Sharwa (Sherpa) leaders on Indigenous rights and community conservation issues, including respect and recognition of Sharwa Indigenous Peoples’ and Community-Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs) within Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) National Park, Nepal. He is active in international efforts to promote rights-based conservation, community conservation, and the new protected area paradigm through his participation in the IUCN’s Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy and the intercommission group Theme/Strategic Direction on Governance, Communities, Equity, and Livelihood Rights in Relation to Protected Areas and as an officer and steering committee member of the ICCA Consortium, a Switzerland-based association of sixty Indigenous peoples and Indigenous peoples organizations, community organizations , and conservation organizations that works worldwide on behalf of conservation and human rights through appropriate recognition and support for ICCAs. Stevens’s recent work has focused on Indigenous peoples, protected areas, ICCAs, and rights, particularly in the high Himalaya of Nepal and Sagarmatha National Park. Recent publications include articles in Policy Matters and Conservation and Society and chapters in two edited books, Rights-based Approaches: Exploring Issues and Opportunities for Conservation (2009) and The Right to Responsibility: Resisting and Engaging Development, Conservation, and the Law in Asia (2014). 362 • Editor and Contributors About the Contributors Emily Caruso, Ph.D., received her doctorate in anthropology at the University of Kent, United Kingdom, after conducting field research with the Ashaninka people in eastern Peru. She has worked on Indigenous peoples’ rights as a staff member at Forest Peoples Programme (UK) and on collaborative research and community conservation in her current position as regional programmes director of the Global Diversity Foundation. She has published on Indigenous peoples’ rights and conservation and the politics of protected area comanagement. Brian W. Conz, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of geography and regional planning at Westfield State University, Westfield, Massachusetts. He has conducted geographic research in Central America since 2003, working principally with K’iche’ Maya people in highland Guatemala as well as with peoples of the African Diaspora in Belize and Caribbean Guatemala. As a student of Indigenous and traditional land-use and conservation practices , his research focuses on the intersection of such practices with local and regional ecologies, social movements, environmentalism, and conservation policy. Derick A. Fay, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. His research, based in South Africa, examines the relationships between the end of apartheid and postapartheid transformations and rural Xhosa peoples’ access to land and natural resources, focusing on resettlement, land tenure, and community relations with protected areas. He is the coeditor of two books: The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: ‘Restoring What Was Ours’ (2009), with Deborah James, and From Conflict to Negotiation: Nature-Based Development on South Africa’s Wild Coast (2003), with Robin Palmer and Herman Timmermans. Mary Finley-Brook, Ph.D., is an associate professor of geography, environmental studies, and international studies at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. Her research critiques market-oriented conservation and development programs in Indigenous peoples’ territories across Latin America and has been published in journals such as AlterNative, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, The Canadian Geographer, and Water Alternatives. Editor and Contributors • 363 Marcia Langton, Ph.D., is a renowned Aboriginal rights activist and geographer and holds the Foundation Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has a Ph.D. in geography (Macquarie University). Langton has been awarded the Order of Australia and the Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Teacher of the Year and is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. She is the author of Burning Questions: Emerging Environmental Issues for Indigenous Peoples in Northern Australia (1998) and coeditor of Honour among Nations ? Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous Peoples (2004), Settling with Indigenous Peoples: Modern Treaty and Agreement Making (2006), First Australians: An Illustrated History (2008), and Community Futures, Legal Architecture...