Caught between the Cartographic and the Ethnographic Imagination: The Whereabouts of Amateurs, Professionals, and Nature in Knowing Biodiversity

摘要: In this paper we document current research into new forms of public engagement presently taking place in UK biodiversity policy. This involves locating the main participants such patterns engagement; namely nature, amateur naturalists, and professional biologists conservationists. Two interwoven mutually interdependent perspectives or ‘imaginaries’—the ‘cartographic’ ‘ethnographic’—are presented to explore shaping interpretation engagement. However, context interest lies ways which either perspective is foregrounded backgrounded by different parties involved. The described shifts movements a range actors processes being studied demonstrate fluidity instability networks ‘knowing nature well’, whose stability often assumed. tracing two constants—expertise exchange—within inhabited naturalists allows for an exploration social/natural inclusions exclusions occur participatory practices designed as part action planning.