Dispossession and the environment
West, Paige
Dispossession and the environment : rhetoric and inequality in Papua, New Guinea / Paige West - New York : Columbia University Press, 2016 - xii, 195p. 24cm.
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
9780231178792
Brijwasi Book Distributors :H-87, Lalita Park laxmi Nagar Delhi 110092
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.
Ecology.
305.800 WES
Dispossession and the environment : rhetoric and inequality in Papua, New Guinea / Paige West - New York : Columbia University Press, 2016 - xii, 195p. 24cm.
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
9780231178792
Brijwasi Book Distributors :H-87, Lalita Park laxmi Nagar Delhi 110092
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.
Ecology.
305.800 WES
