Rethinking interspecies contact zones: An actor-network analysis of urban conflict in an effort to conserve a marine resource

As a priest, the researcher of this project Shaun is required to go on retreat once a year. He does this by going into nature; a place apart from the busyness of the world. This is one example of the way we think about nature as that which excludes people, and thus conservation is about keeping people away from nature. Wildlife poaching is a practice in which the line between nature and people is blurred. This research focuses on the violence associated with the confiscation of poached abalone and critiques our dualistic ways of thinking about inter alia rural/urban, human/nature and guilty/innocent.