Re-cognizing Co-management as Co-governance: Visions and Histories of Conservation at James Bay

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  • Harvey A. Feit McMaster University

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co-management, governance, governmentality, conservation, James Bay Crees, nation states

Abstract

James Bay Cree "hunting leaders" claim extensive authority over their hunting territories, including authority to control non-Native activities on them. They are encouraged by recalling that their authority has been recognized repeatedly by government officials over decades. I show that beaver conservation and co-management included repeated acknowledgments that nation state and Cree governing practices co-existed and were necessary to each other. I examine how recognition of co-governance can be an "effect" of co-management. But co-governance is a governmentality whose logic is outside the claims of nation states to exclusive sovereignty, and therefore its practice is acknowledged ambiguously and inconsistently.

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2022-06-22

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Feit, H. A. (2022). Re-cognizing Co-management as Co-governance: Visions and Histories of Conservation at James Bay. Anthropologica, 47(2), 267–288. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2387