The eye of the tiger: conservation technology, rural surveillance and the patriarchy in Indian wildlife reserves

In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr Trishant Simlai, a conservation researcher studying the politics and geographies of wildlife conservation in India, who just received his PhD in the Department of Geography at Cambridge. They discuss wildlife surveillance in the Corbett Tiger Reserve, as well as conservation’s colonial origins, how camera traps can be used to uphold the patriarchy, and when workplace surveillance technologies literally lead to tiger attacks.

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Further Reading:

• Negotiating the Gaze. Sanctuary Asia, December 2019
• Are Conservation Organizations Complicit in Ethnic Discrimination? The Wire 2017
• Grasslands of Grey: How the BBC's flawed Kaziranga muckraker has done harm. The Wire 2017:
• Are Treacherous Links and Claims an Illusion? Sanctuary Asia 2016
• Conservation 'Wars': The global rise of green militarization and trends in India. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol L No 50. 2015.
• Digital Surveillance Tech in Conservation and their social implications
• Why we must question the militarisation of conservation
• How does Conservation Tech Cause Harm?
• Conservation Surveillance as a means for state repression?

Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeod

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