Ethnographies of Conservation : : Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege /

Ethnographies of Conservation : : Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege / / ed. by David G. Anderson, Eeva Berglund.

Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine nature" or even the land-use prac...

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MitwirkendeR:
Adams, Cristina,
Anderson, David G.,
Berglund, Eeva,
Chatty, Dawn,
Ellis, David M.,
Frost, Nicola,
Halder, Bornali,
Novellino, Dario,
Nugent, Stephen,
Nygren, Anja,
Rolle, Luna,
Sullivan, Sian,
Wrangham, Rachel,
HerausgeberIn:
Anderson, David G.,
Berglund, Eeva,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2003]
©2003
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (242 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • MAPS AND FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
  • Introduction: Towards an Ethnography of Ecological Underprivilege
  • Part I: Anthropology, Ecopolitics and Discrimination
  • 1 Pitfalls of Synchronicity: A Case Study of the Caiçaras in the Atlantic Rainforest of South-eastern Brazil
  • 2 Nature as Contested Terrain: Conflicts Over Wilderness Protection and Local Livelihoods in Río San Juan, Nicaragua
  • 3 The Environment at the Periphery: Conflicting Discourses on the Forest in Tanimbar, Eastern Indonesia
  • Part II: Distributing Justice within Protected Landscapes
  • 4 Protest, Conflict and Litigation: Dissent or Libel in Resistance to a Conservancy in North-west Namibia
  • 5 Environmentalism in the Syrian Badia: The Assumptions of Degradation, Protection and Bedouin Misuse
  • 6 ‘Ecocide and Genocide’: Explorations of Environmental Justice in Lakota Sioux Country
  • 7 Promoting Consumption in the Rainforest: Global Conservation in Papua New Guinea
  • Part III: Writing Environmentalis
  • 8 ‘We still are Soviet People’: Youth Ecological Culture in the Republic of Tatarstan and the Legacy of the Soviet Union
  • 9 The Ecology of Markets in Central Siberia
  • 10 Contrasting Landscapes, Conflicting Ontologies: Assessing Environmental Conservation on Palawan Island (The Philippines)
  • 11 Ecologism as an Idiom in Amazonian Anthropology
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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