The politics of mourning in conservation conflicts : the (un)grievability of life and less-than-human geographies Ghent University
Accounts of conservation conflicts often reveal that people living around protected areas feel like their lives are less valued than animals' lives -they are confined to 'less-than-human geographies'. Recent literature on necropolitical ecology illustrates how such geographies were created and maintained by the state, which holds the power to decide over life and death in and around conservation areas. This paper integrates Judith Butler's ...