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Nature in the Global South : Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia /

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 understa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt (Editor ), Greenough, Paul R. (Paul Robert) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Paul Greenough, Anna Lowenhaupt
  • PART I. SCALES, LOGICS, AND AGENTS
  • Tropical knowledges
  • Natures of culture: environment and race in the colonial tropics / Warwick Anderson
  • Dividing lines: nature, culture, and commerce in Indonesia's Aru Islands, 1856-1997 / Charles Zerner
  • Move from minor to major: competing discourses of nontimber forest products in India / Roger Jeffery [and others]
  • Rural landscaping
  • Forest discourses in South and Southeast Asia: a comparison with global discourses / Michael R. Dove
  • Agrarian allegory and global futures / Anna Lowenhaupt
  • Foreign trees: lives and landscapes in Rajasthan / Ann Grodzins Gold
  • PART II. TOWARD LIVABLE ENVIRONMENTS: COMPROMISES AND CAMPAINGS
  • States of nature / states in nature
  • Pathogens, pugmarks, and political "emergency": the 1970s South Asian debate on nature / Paul Greenough
  • Territorializing local struggles for resource control: a look at environmental discourses and politics in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso
  • Scientific forestry and genealogies of development in Bengal / K. Sivaramakrishman
  • Uneasy allies
  • Tribal politics and discourses of Indian environmentalism / Amita Baviskar
  • Voices for the Borneo rain forest: writing the history of an environmental campaign / J. Peter Brosius
  • Practical spirituality and community forests: monks, ritual, and radical conservatism in Thailand / Susan M. Darlington.