Feminist Conservation

“By carefully weaving together first-hand fisher accounts and multi-scalar analysis, Feminist Conservation explains how marine protected areas impact gendered ‘fishing on foot’ practices and essential environmental knowledge. This well-researched work offers hopeful and clear paths toward doing conservation otherwise.”—Ingrid L. Nelson, coeditor of Practising Feminist Political Ecologies“What if thirty years of ‘community-based conservation’ was a step in the right direction, but blind to global forces and local injustices? Feminist Conservation offers a more caring and effective path, grounded in empathetic ethnographic fieldwork.”—Christian Kull, author of Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar

Merrill Baker-Médard is associate professor of environmental studies at Middlebury College and a 2019 Fulbright Scholar within the African Regional Research Program. She has worked, researched, and lived in Madagascar for over two decades and also lives in Middlebury, VT.