Tiger conservation, biopolitics and the future of Indian environmentalism

• DOI: 10.1111/sjtg.12525
• Publication Date: 2023-12-20T12:21:34Z
• Authors: Ajit Menon; Rituparna Borah
• Keywords: Tiger; Environmentalism; Biopower

Tiger conservation in India has been driven for the most part by a philosophy that prioritizes need inviolate tiger reserves free of human beings. Such reserves, it is argued, provide much needed territory to ‘care’ tiger. In this paper, we examine biopolitics and argue current approach amplifies nature‐culture divide ignores other imaginations are more cognizant human—non‐human entanglements protected area landscapes. The paper argues mix sovereign, disciplinary neoliberal environmentalities, all built on certain ‘truth’ about tigers. raises questions concerns discourse underlies also marginalized environmentalism poor. It makes case debate discussion truths suggests than recognizes adverse consequences fortress as well its limits caring geographies.