Greenough / Tsing Nature in the Global South

Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8500-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten

Alternative cultural forms of environmentalism in South and Southeast Asia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenough, Paul

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt

Weitere Mitwirkende

Anderson, Warwick

Zerner, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Greenough is Professor in the Departments of History and Community and Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943–1944 and the editor of “Global Immunization and Culture: Compliance and Resistance in Large-Scale Public Health Campaigns,” a special issue of Social Science and Medicine.Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place and coeditor of Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture.