Dispossession and the Environment - Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-17878-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

Reihe: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures

When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produces and reinforces inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all uneven patterns of development and seeks a more robust understanding of the ideological work that capital requires for constant regeneration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

West, Paige

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsMap of the Island of New GuineaIntroduction1. "Such a Site for Play2. "We Are Here to Build Your Capacity": Development as a Vehicle for Accumulation and Dispossession3. Discovering the Already Known: Tree Kangaroos4. Indigenous Theories of AccumulationAfterword. Birdsongs: In Memory of Neil Smith (1954–2012)NotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Paige West is professor of anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University.