Hi, everyone. I'm Fidel Parks and I'm doing my Honours in Gender Studies in environmental feminisms and decolonial/indigenous conservation. My knowledge of and interest in the topics are fairly recent in that I was only exposed to them last year, at the end of my undergrad. I did my Bachelors of Science in Biology and Gender Studies. It was in a conservation biology course where I was taught both about the colonial history and the indigenous future of conservation and in a gender course where I was taught about the importance of gendered approaches in climate justice and thus the importance of environmental feminisms. While these courses overlapped slightly in content, they differed extremely in approach. Biology didn't care much for indigenous conservation beyond name-dropping and a few anecdotes whereas Gender Studies' focus on how women were more heavily affected didn't extend far enough to really explain in what ways participation in conservation, indigenous or...
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