Mutiny on the Boundary? Examining ILK-Based Conservation Collaborations through the Lens of Rubbish Theory

Many conservation researchers and practitioners argue that knowledges traditionally conceptualized as non-academic are useful for guiding environmental decision-making stewardship. As demonstrated by the articles in this special issue, bringing Indigenous local to bear on requires forging new relationships and, de facto, political arrangements. In article, we seek clarify what is at stake such efforts change (or maintain) counts knowledge applying rubbish theory volume’s case studies. Redrawing boundaries of engagements between academic trained “do conservation” according western science traditions, one hand, peoples communities who possess generated contexts, other, effects demarcations expertise so challenges existing social hierarchies. Unsurprisingly, tension emerges about how far changes should go. By increasing awareness relationship (re)defining (re)configuring hierarchies, hope make it easier participants manage collaborations.