Essays about: "chagos marine protected area"

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  1. 1. ”Human uses carefully managed” : A critical discourse analysis of the Chagos Marine Protected Area

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : Axel Hallgren; [2018]
    Keywords : large-scale marine protected areas; political ecology; biopolitics; human-nature relationship; territorialization; critical discourse analysis; chagos marine protected area;

    Abstract : The large marine protected area (MPA) declared in 2010 around the Chagos Archipelago, also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), has led to a conflict in the thick of environmental protection, colonialism, sovereignty claims, and the human rights dispute of the Chagossian people that once were exiled from the islands in the 1970s. By applying a Foucauldian inspired critical discourse analysis, this study interprets and examines how the nature/human relationship was portrayed during and after the creation of the Chagos MPA. READ MORE