The Elephant Vanishes: impact of human-elephant conflict on people's wellbeing.

摘要: Human-wildlife conflicts impact upon the wellbeing of marginalised people, worldwide. Although tangible losses from such are well documented, hidden health consequences remain under-researched. Based on preliminary clinical ethnographic inquiries and sustained fieldwork in Assam, India, this paper documents mental antecedents including severe untreated psychiatric morbidity substance abuse. The case studies presented make visible dimensions human-elephant conflict. illustrates how impacts penetrate far deeper than immediate physical threat elephants, worsens pre-existing illness leads to newer social pathologies. These enacted perpetuated institutional spaces inequality. authors argue that both wildlife conservation community disciplines would be enhanced by coordinated intervention. concludes generating questions fundamental for a new interdisciplinary paradigm bridges ecology clinic.