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1	Corridors in Conservation and Philosophy Benton, Christine S. 08 1900 (has links) My thesis focuses on philosophical themes implicit in corridor conservation, using the Big Thicket National Preserve as an example. The way in which corridors, boundaries and communities are ambiguous, as both limits and connections, is dealt with. Corridor-patch matrices assemble ecological and human groups into temporary communities, often with conflicting interests. Such constellations foreground how a foreigner's boundary crossing is a notion important to both conservation and a philosophical study of being, seen as being always in relation with otherness. In this context, the notion of foreignness and Jean-Luc Nancy's idea of being-with is explored. Understanding the complex network of relations in which an entity exists leads to an awareness of its ambiguous nature. To facilitate judgment with such ambiguity, one needs a contextual understanding of a situation. Corridors (Ecology) Wildlife conservation. Environmental ethics. Big Thicket National Preserve (Tex.) Big Thicket foreigner corridor conservation boundaries ambiguity environmental philosophy Jean-Luc Nancy Bonnie Honig being-with