Revisiting social natures: People-elephant conflict and coexistence in Sri Lanka

摘要: Abstract This paper examines human-wildlife conflict in and around protected areas to reflect on long-standing questions conservation social science about fortress thinking. It develops a more-than-human political ecology of human-elephant cohabitation Sri Lanka explore how changing socio-material conditions intersect produce today’s world. The paper’s overarching argument is that better understood as relatively proximate cause the other impacts associated with domain conservation. Through its analyses, deepens critique nature-society dualisms embedded appellation ‘fortress conservation’ offers insights strengthen reach force scholarship tackles persistent “appeal” “fortress” ( Buscher, 2016, 115 ).