Conservation Is Our Government Now - The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea

Informationen zum Autor Paige West Klappentext Ethnography and critique of conservationist efforts in Papua New Guinea, focusing on the misunderstandings, mistranslations, and complexities that arise in the discourse between conservation/biologists and local people. Zusammenfassung An ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xi Acknowledgments xxiii Abbreviations and Acronyms xxix 1. New Guinea-New York 1 2. Making Crater Mountain 27 3. Articulations, Histories, Development 52 4. Conservation Histories 125 5. A Land of Pure Possibility 147 6. The Practices of Conservation-as-Development 183 7. Exchanging Conservation for Development 215 Appendices 239 Notes 251 Bibliography 279 Index 311

Product details

• Authors: Paige West, West, Paige West
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2006
• EAN: 9780822337126
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3712-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century; New Ecologies for the Twenty-F; New Ecologies for the Twenty-first Century; New Ecologies for the Twenty-F
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Anthropologie, Umweltschutz, Südostasien, Papua Neu Guinea