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Dispossession and the environment : rhetoric and inequality in Papua, New Guinea / Paige West

By: West, PaigeContributor(s): West, PaigeMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Brijwasi Book Distributors | :H-87, Lalita Park laxmi Nagar Delhi 110092Publication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Description: xii, 195p. 24cmISBN: 9780231178792Subject(s): Social Sciences | Groups of people | Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea | Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Papua New Guinea | Indigenous peoples -- Papua New Guinea -- Social conditions | Papua New Guinea -- Environmental conditions | EcologyDDC classification: 305.800 WES

Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Map of the Early Colonial Boundaries of New Guinea -- Introduction -- 1. "Such a Site for Play, This Edge": Tourism and Modernist Fantasy -- 2. "We Are Here to Build Your Capacity": Development as a Vehicle for Accumulation and Dispossession -- 3. Discovering the Already Known: Tree Kangaroos, Explorer Imaginings, and Indigenous Articulations -- 4. Indigenous Theories of Accumulation, Dispossession, Possession, and Sovereignty -- Afterword. Birdsongs: In Memory of Neil Smith (1954-2012) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Map of the Early Colonial Boundaries of New Guinea --
Introduction --
1. "Such a Site for Play, This Edge": Tourism and Modernist Fantasy --
2. "We Are Here to Build Your Capacity": Development as a Vehicle for Accumulation and Dispossession --
3. Discovering the Already Known: Tree Kangaroos, Explorer Imaginings, and Indigenous Articulations --
4. Indigenous Theories of Accumulation, Dispossession, Possession, and Sovereignty --
Afterword. Birdsongs: In Memory of Neil Smith (1954-2012) --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index

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

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