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China's camel country : livestock and nation-building at a pastoral frontier / Thomas White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Thomas (Anthropologist), author.
- Series:
- Culture, place, and nature
- Culture, Place, and Nature Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pastoral systems--China--Alxa Zuoqi (Qi).
- Pastoral systems.
- Nature conservation--Government policy.
- Nature conservation.
- Political ecology--China.
- Political ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Other Title:
- Path to Open
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, 2024
- Summary:
- How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country's arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted pastoralists and their animals, blamed for causing desertification. State environmentalism-in the form of grazing bans, enclosure, and resettlement-has transformed the lives of many ethnic minority herders in China's western borderlands. However, this book shows how such policies have been contested and negotiated on the ground, in the context of the state's intensifying nation-building project. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Alasha, in the far west of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Thomas White describes how ethnic Mongols have foregrounded the local breed of Bactrian camel, mobilizing ideas of heritage and resource conservation to defend pastoralism. In exploring how the greening of the Chinese state affects the entangled lives of humans and animals at the margins of the nation-state, this study is both a political biography of the Bactrian camel and an innovative work of political ecology addressing critical questions of rural livelihoods, conservation, and state power.-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Title from online title page (viewed on Novermber 4, 2024).
- Includes bibliogralphical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-295-75244-0
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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