Open AccessNational Parks and social involvement - an argument
Author(s) -
James Alfred Loader
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
koedoe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 2071-0771
pISSN - 0075-6458
DOI - 10.4102/koedoe.v37i1.331
Subject(s) - holism , ignorance , prejudice (legal term) , argument (complex analysis) , expression (computer science) , epistemology , perception , social psychology , sociology , environmental ethics , psychology , philosophy , computer science , biochemistry , chemistry , programming language
Discrimination, whether institutionalised or not, is described as the expression of prejudice, which, it is argued, is derived from projectionism, or the supposition that one's own perception coincides with reality and is therefore the only valid one. It is the result of naive ignorance of the world view(s) by which human attitudes are shaped. By means of the ecologically congenial concepts of interrelatedness and holism, it is here argued as an alternative that social involvement is (or, should be) an intrinsic part of conservation. A possible model for the purpose and some practical considerations are suggested