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Aligning Identity: Social Identity and Changing Context in Community-based Environmental Conflict
2008 •
Todd Bryan
The social identity approach to understanding socio-political conflict in environmental and natural resources management
B. Witt
A B S T R A C T Insights from the social identity approach can be useful in understanding the drivers of dysfunctional conflict in environmental and natural resources management (ENRM). Such conflicts tend to be shaped by multiple factors including: the governance arrangements that are in place and how deliberations are undertaken; the conduct and interactions of stakeholders and the wider citizenry; and the conflict legacy, which can perpetuate a 'culture of conflict' around particular issues. This paper presents an integrative conceptual model of the socio-political landscape of ENRM conflict, which draws these multiple factors together. The social identity approach is then introduced as an appropriate lens through which the drivers of conflict in ENRM can be further interrogated. Key social identity mechanisms are discussed along with their contribution to the proliferation of dysfunctional conflict in ENRM. Based on this analysis, it is found that the social identity approach presents a way to understand the subtle and sometimes invisible social structures which underlie ENRM, and that ENRM issues ought to be viewed as a series of conflict episodes connected across time and contexts by the conflict legacy. The conceptual model, and its interpretation through the social identity approach, raises a number of implications for the current theory, practice and institutions involved in the wicked socio-political landscape of ENRM. These implications are examined, followed by a discussion of some opportunities to address the impact of social identity on dysfunctional conflict drawn from empirical Australian and international examples in the literature.
Human Dimensions of Wildlife
Stewardship as a Path to Cooperation? Exploring the Role of Identity in Intergroup Conflict Among Michigan Wolf Stakeholders
2014 •
Michelle L Lute
iii THE CONSTRUCTION OF HUMAN’S IDENTITY IN NATURE BY OPPOSING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE IDAHO WOLF WARS Abstract
2009 •
Andrew Caven
ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The production of this modest document has depended on the work of several people other than myself. Thanks to Nick Fiore, formerly of the Wolf Education and Research Center, for providing me with so much inside information concerning conservation in Idaho. Secondly, thanks to Shaun Genter and Lauren Richter for their editing and advice concerning this project’s contents. Thank you to my thesis committee, Lisa McIntyre, Nella Van Dyke, Emmett Fiske, and Eugene Rosa for sticking with me, despite great geographical distances, and thank you to Megan Comstock and the WSU Sociology office staff for their support and impeccable organization throughout this process. I also want to thank all the WSU Sociology graduate students and faculty for making my time in Pullman so enlightening. Finally, I want to offer the utmost appreciation to my family, which has stood behind me even when the support of others has wavered.
Sociological Theory
Bringing Identity Theory into Environmental Sociology
2003 •
Chris Biga
In an effort to explain pro-environmental behavior, environmental sociologists often study environmental attitudes. While much of this work is atheoretical, the focus on attitudes suggests that researchers are implicitly drawing upon attitude theory in psychology. The present research brings sociological theory to environmental sociology by drawing on identity theory to understand environmentally responsive behavior. We develop an environment identity model of environmental behavior that includes not only the meanings of the environment identity, but also the prominence and salience of the environment identity and commitment to the environment identity. We examine the identity process as it relates to behavior, though not to the exclusion of examining the effects of environmental attitudes. The findings reveal that individual agency is important in influencing environmentally responsive behavior, but this agency is largely through identity processes, rather than attitude processes. ...
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Managing Social Conflict and Forest Restoration
Global Science Books
This paper examines the role that social conflict is likely to play in forest restoration projects. A definition of conflict as " perceived goal interference among interdependent parties " serves as a point of departure for the discussion, and the nature of forest restoration conflict is systematically examined by focusing on each aspect of the definition: perceptions, goal interference, the parties, and their interdependence. Agencies undertaking restoration projects are encouraged to adopt a discourse orientation, wherein they recognize that 1) their public involvement efforts are creating a discourse that can incorporate a wide array of values and voices and 2) groups may create competing discourses if they feel that the agency's process disenfranchises them.
Organizations, policy and the …
The emergence of environmental conflict resolutionsubversive stories, instituional change and the construction of fields
2001 •
Marc Ventresca
Frontiers in Psychology
A Social Identity Analysis of Climate Change and Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: Insights and Opportunities
2016 •
Matthew Hornsey
Review of Social Economy
Identity and Environmentalism: The Influence of Community Characteristics
2010 •
Ann Owen
Engaging with Human Identity in Social-Ecological Systems: A Dialectical Approach
Micah Ingalls
Vexing problems of global environmental change call for better conceptual and analytical approaches for understanding human behaviors, factors influencing these behaviors, and the causal pathways through which these shape social and environmental outcomes. While human identity meanings provide key analytic objects in the interrogation of these dynamics, identity-based research has been truncated by a historic overemphasis on social factors and a lack of critical engagement with the ecological context of these processes. Adapting Giddens’s concept of structuration, we draw on recent advances in social-ecological systems scholarship and human structural ecology to propose a new conceptual approach for understanding human identity processes and their relation to social-ecological structure. Resituating the human person within complex social-ecological systems, we suggest some causal pathways through which ecological (in addition to social) elements are active in the emergence of human identity and, conversely, the ways in which identity-based behaviors interact dialectically with social-ecological structure to produce outcomes significant along both social and ecological dimensions. Finally, we explore some implications of this reframing for the interrogation of society-nature dynamics and for empirical research engaging with social-ecological change and resilience.
