Moore / Kosek / Pandian Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8465-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 488 Seiten

A collection of essays that show the interdependence of concepts of race and nature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moore, Donald S.

Kosek, Jake

Pandian, Anand

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nature: Terrains of Power and Practice / Donald S. Moore, Anand Pandian, and Jake Kosek 1

Part One. Calculating Improvements 71

1. After the Great White Error. The Great Black Mirage / Paul Gilroy 73

2. Simians, Savages, Skulls, and Sex: Science and Colonial Militarism in Nineteenth-Century South Africa / Zine Magubane 99

3. “The More You Kill the More You Will Live”: The Maya, “Race,” and Biopolitical Hopes fro Peace in Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson 122

Part Two. Landscapes of Purity and Pollution

4. “There is a Land Where Everything is Pure": Linguistic Nationalism and Identity Politics in Germany / Uli Linke 149

5. “On the Raggedy Edge of Risk": Articulations of Race and Nature after Biology / Bruce Braun 175

6. Beyond Ecoliberal “Common Futures": Environmental Justice, Toxic Touring, and a Transcommunal Politics of Place / Giovanna Di Chiro 204

7. Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis / Keith Wailoo 235

8. For the Love of a Good Dog: Webs of Action in the World of Dog Genetics / Donna Haraway 254

9. Intimate Publics: Race, Property, and Personhood / Robyn Wiegman 296

Part Four. The Politics of Representation 321

10. Men in Paradise: Sex Tourism and the Political Economy of Masculinity / Steven Gregory 323

11. Pulp Fictions of Indigenism / Alcida Ramos 356

12. Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the Limits of Recognition in Indonesia’s Forest Zone / Tania Murray Li 380

Bibliography 407

Contributors 461

Index 465

Über Autor(innen)

Donald S. Moore is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.Jake Kosek is a geographer and a Lang Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.Anand Pandian is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.