TY  - BOOK
AU  - West, Paige
AU  - West, Paige
TI  - Dispossession and the environment : : rhetoric and inequality in Papua, New Guinea
SN  - 9780231178792
U1  - 305.800 WES 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York 
PB  - : Columbia University Press
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Groups of people
KW  - Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea
KW  - Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- Papua New Guinea
KW  - Indigenous peoples -- Papua New Guinea -- Social conditions
KW  - Papua New Guinea -- Environmental conditions
KW  - Ecology
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -