Ethnographies Of Conservation : Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, David G.

Contributor:

Berglund, Eeva.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservation of natural resources--Economic aspects.

Conservation of natural resources.

Consumption (Economics)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Distribution (Economic theory)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Distribution (Economic theory).

Distributive justice.

Environmental ethics.

Human ecology--Economic aspects.

Human ecology.

Material accountability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2004.

Summary:

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 practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that critical attention would be better turned on discourses of ""primitiveness"" and ""pristine nature"" so prevalent within conservation ideology, and on t

Contents:

ETHNOGRAPHIES OF CONSERVATION; CONTENTS; MAPS AND FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: ANTHROPOLOGY, ECOPOLITICS AND DISCRIMINATION; CHAPTER 1. PITFALLS OF SYNCHRONICITY; CHAPTER 2. NATURE AS CONTESTED TERRAIN; CHAPTER 3. THE ENVIRONMENT AT THE PERIPHERY; PART II: DISTRIBUTING JUSTICE WITHIN PROTECTED LANDSCAPES; CHAPTER 4. PROTEST, CONFLICT AND LITIGATION; CHAPTER 5. ENVIRONMENTALISM IN SYRIAN BADIA; CHAPTER 6. 'ECOCIDE AND GENOCIDE'; CHAPTER 7. PROMOTING CONSUMPTION IN THE RAINFOREST; PART III: WRITING ENVIRONMENTALISM

CHAPTER 8. 'WE STILL ARE SOVIET PEOPLE'CHAPTER 9. THE ECOLOGY OF MARKETS IN CENTRAL SIBERIA; CHAPTER 10. CONTRASTING LANDSCAPES, CONFLICTING ONTOLOGIES; CHAPTER 11. ECOLOGISM AS AN IDIOM IN AMAZONIAN ANTHROPOLOGY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780857456748

0857456741