Nature in the global south : environmental projects in South and Southeast Asia /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Greenough, Paul R. (Paul Robert) (Editor), Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Environmental management > South Asia.
Sustainable development > South Asia.
Environmental management > Southeast Asia.
Sustainable development > Southeast Asia.
Environnement > Gestion > Asie méridionale.
Développement durable > Asie méridionale.
Environnement > Gestion > Asie du Sud-Est.
Développement durable > Asie du Sud-Est.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Sustainable Development.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Environmental management
Sustainable development
Umweltschutz
Ecologie.
Politiek.
Projecten.
Conservation des forêts.
Développement durable.
Écologisme.
Gestion de l'environnement.
Protection de la nature.
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Südostasien
Indien
Asie du Sud-Est.
Asie méridionale.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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