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Nature in the Global South – Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia de Paul Greenough

Nature in the Global South – Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia

Autor Paul Greenough, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 aug 2003
A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, "Nature in the Global South" is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in these regions are biological classification, state forest management, tropical ecology, imperial water control, public health, and community-based conservation. Focusing on these and other ways that nature has been shaped and defined, this pathbreaking collection of essays describes projects of exploitation, administration, science, and community protest. With contributors based in anthropology, ecology, sociology, history, and environmental and policy studies, "Nature in the Global South" features some of the most innovative and influential work being done in the social studies of nature. While some of the essays look at how social and natural landscapes are created, maintained, and transformed by scientists, officials, monks, and farmers, others analyze specific campaigns to eradicate smallpox and save forests, waterways, and animal habitats. In case studies centered in the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia, and South and Southeast Asia as a whole, contributors examine how the tropics, the jungle, tribes, and peasants are understood and transformed; how shifts in colonial ideas about the landscape led to extremely deleterious changes in rural well-being; and how uneasy environmental compromises are forged in the present among rural, urban, and global allies.
Contributors:
Warwick Anderson
Amita Baviskar
Peter Brosius
Susan Darlington
Michael R. Dove
Ann Grodzins Gold
Paul Greenough
Roger Jeffery
Nancy Peluso
K. Sivaramakrishnan
Nandini Sundar
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Charles Zerner
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822331490
ISBN-10: 0822331497
Pagini: 440
Ilustrații: 3 tables, 4 figures
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Preface vii
Introduction / Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 1
Part I Scales, Logics, and Agents
Tropical Knowledges
The Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics / Warwick Anderson 29
Dividing Lines: Nature, Culture, and Commerce in Indonesia's Aru Islands, 1856-1997 / Charles Zerner 47
A Move from Minor to Major: Competing Discourses of Nontimber Forest Products in India / Roger Jeffery and Nandini Sundar, with Abha Mishra, Neeraj Peter, and Pradeep J. Tharakan 79
Rural Landscaping
Forest Discourses in South and Southeast Asia: A Comparison with Global Discourses / Michael R. Dove 103
Agrarian Allegory and Global Futures / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 124
Foreign Trees: Lives and Landscapes in Rajasthan / Ann Grodzins Gold 170
Part II Toward Livable Environments: Compromises and Campaigns
States of Nature / States in Nature
Pathogens, Pugmarks, and Political "Emergency": The 1970s South Asian Debate on Nature / Paul Greenough 201
Territorializing Local Struggles for Resource Control; A Look at Environmnetal Discourses and Politics in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso 231
Scientific Forestry and Geneaologies of Development in Bengal / K. Sivaramakrishnan 253
Uneasy Allies
Tribal Politics and Discourses of Indian Environmentalism / Amita Baviskar 289
Voices for the Borneo Rain Forest: Writing the History of an Environmental Campaign / J. Peter Brosius 319
Practical Spirituality and Community Forests: Monks, Ritual, and Radical Conservatism in Thailand / Susan M. Darlington 347
Bibliography 367
Contributors 411
Index 413

Recenzii

" . . . these essays . . . provide an essential read for anyone wanting to better understand the impact of both 'Foreign activists', the dilemmas facing indigenous hill tribes, and more importantly of aid donor countries in this vital area of our planet."--ASIAN AFFAIRS MARCH 2005" . . . <|>Nature in the Global South</|> provides the reader with an in-depth, multifaceted analysis ofenvironmental projects, the scope of which is broader than earlier studies conducted in asimilar view. The strength of the research lies in providing potential welfare improvements inSouth and Southeast Asia."--Contemporary South Asia 14(1) March 2005“This set of extraordinary case studies by authors from several countries and disciplines explores historically the politics of nature in particular local contexts through environmental projects, movements, and associated discourses. . . . The editors provide an unusually imaginative and provocative introduction that nicely integrates the main concerns of the anthology. . . . [R]efreshing and insightful. . . . This set of high-quality case studies contributes a relatively new perspective on human-environment interactions in the regions covered. . . . Published at the turn from the 20th century into the 21st, this book provides a convenient benchmark for a diagnosis of the political ecology of the past and a prognosis for its future in tropical Asia.”—Leslie Sponsel, Anthropological Quarterly“[A] pathbreaking work because of its original and detailed explorations of environmental discourses in South and Southeast Asia. Scholars and advanced students both of the region and of modern environmentalism would do well to consult it. Because of the dearth of English language materials concerned at such a complex level with local Asian debates on environmental issues, libraries with major collections in South Asian and Southeast Asian studies, particularly India and Indonesia, should acquire this volume. It is also recommended for interested general readers, since the editors have ensured that they can engage with this volume’s intriguing environmental topics without confronting heavy, overly academic language.”—Laura M. Calkins, Electronic Green Journal“[A]t heart, the authors have a good political line: that partisan scholarship to raise the interests of tribals, peasants and workers can go hand-in-hand with political activism. Together both can challenge the conclusion of development economics and 'global ecologism.' . . . [A] good index and a splendid bibliography.”—Bruce McFarlane, Journal of Contemporary Asia"This book provides interesting accounts of the interactions between people and natural resources in South and Southeast Asia. It will be useful to anthropologists and sociologists. . . . I would recommend it as a starting point for economists embarking on interdisciplinary research in this area."— Budy Resosudarmo, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies"This is a stunning book. . . .[T]he breadth and depth of historical and ethnographic material brought together in one collection to show how the idea of nature governs relations not only between people and environment, but also the wider field of social and political relations, is quite unique. . . . [T]his is a book that environmental activists and the non-governmental organization community need to read to move forward from some of the impasses and increasingly tired critiques and counter-critiques that shape debate on environment and development."— Philip Hirsch, Environmental Conservation"[T]his collection of essays decidedly advances our understanding of how the tropics and its inhabitants have been conceptualized and transformed by colonial and postcolonial regimes, sometimes for the worse, and how uneasy alliances are being formed in the present between Northern and Southern, rural and urban, local and global allies and enemies."— Joe Peters, Peace and Change"[T]his volume provides a number of fresh insights into the study of nature in southern environments."— David Biggs, Environmental History
" ... these essays ... provide an essential read for anyone wanting to better understand the impact of both 'Foreign activists', the dilemmas facing indigenous hill tribes, and more importantly of aid donor countries in this vital area of our planet."--ASIAN AFFAIRS MARCH 2005 " ... Nature in the Global South provides the reader with an in-depth, multifaceted analysis of environmental projects, the scope of which is broader than earlier studies conducted in a similar view. The strength of the research lies in providing potential welfare improvements in South and Southeast Asia."--Contemporary South Asia 14(1) March 2005 "This set of extraordinary case studies by authors from several countries and disciplines explores historically the politics of nature in particular local contexts through environmental projects, movements, and associated discourses... The editors provide an unusually imaginative and provocative introduction that nicely integrates the main concerns of the anthology... [R]efreshing and insightful... This set of high-quality case studies contributes a relatively new perspective on human-environment interactions in the regions covered... Published at the turn from the 20th century into the 21st, this book provides a convenient benchmark for a diagnosis of the political ecology of the past and a prognosis for its future in tropical Asia."--Leslie Sponsel, Anthropological Quarterly "[A] pathbreaking work because of its original and detailed explorations of environmental discourses in South and Southeast Asia. Scholars and advanced students both of the region and of modern environmentalism would do well to consult it. Because of the dearth of English language materials concerned at such a complex level with local Asian debates on environmental issues, libraries with major collections in South Asian and Southeast Asian studies, particularly India and Indonesia, should acquire this volume. It is also recommended for interested general readers, since the editors have ensured that they can engage with this volume's intriguing environmental topics without confronting heavy, overly academic language."--Laura M. Calkins, Electronic Green Journal "[A]t heart, the authors have a good political line: that partisan scholarship to raise the interests of tribals, peasants and workers can go hand-in-hand with political activism. Together both can challenge the conclusion of development economics and 'global ecologism.' ... [A] good index and a splendid bibliography."--Bruce McFarlane, Journal of Contemporary Asia "This book provides interesting accounts of the interactions between people and natural resources in South and Southeast Asia. It will be useful to anthropologists and sociologists... I would recommend it as a starting point for economists embarking on interdisciplinary research in this area."-- Budy Resosudarmo, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies "This is a stunning book...[T]he breadth and depth of historical and ethnographic material brought together in one collection to show how the idea of nature governs relations not only between people and environment, but also the wider field of social and political relations, is quite unique... [T]his is a book that environmental activists and the non-governmental organization community need to read to move forward from some of the impasses and increasingly tired critiques and counter-critiques that shape debate on environment and development."-- Philip Hirsch, Environmental Conservation "[T]his collection of essays decidedly advances our understanding of how the tropics and its inhabitants have been conceptualized and transformed by colonial and postcolonial regimes, sometimes for the worse, and how uneasy alliances are being formed in the present between Northern and Southern, rural and urban, local and global allies and enemies."-- Joe Peters, Peace and Change "[T]his volume provides a number of fresh insights into the study of nature in southern environments."-- David Biggs, Environmental History

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"Bringing together insights from cultural studies, critical anthropology, and environmental history, this collection provides a robust rethinking of regionalism in South and Southeast Asia." Nature in the Global South" makes crucial contributions to the emerging interdisciplinary field of the cultural politics of environmental struggles, assembling an impressive array of acclaimed scholars."--Donald S. Moore, coeditor of "Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference"

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Alternative cultural forms of environmentalism in South and Southeast Asia.