Nature in the global south environmental projects in South and Southeast Asia /

Nature in the global south environmental projects in South and Southeast Asia / [electronic resource] : Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, editors. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2003. - xii, 428 p. - e-Duke books scholarly collection. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-409) and index.

Introduction / Natures of culture: environment and race in the colonial tropics / Dividing lines: nature, culture, and commerce in Indonesia's Aru Islands, 1856-1997 / Move from minor to major: competing discourses of nontimber forest products in India / Forest discourses in South and Southeast Asia: a comparison with global discourses / Agrarian allegory and global futures / Foreign trees: lives and landscapes in Rajasthan / Pathogens, pugmarks, and political "emergency": the 1970s South Asian debate on nature / Territorializing local struggles for resource control: a look at environmental discourses and politics in Indonesia / Scientific forestry and genealogies of development in Bengal / Tribal politics and discourses of Indian environmentalism / Voices for the Borneo rain forest: writing the history of an environmental campaign / Practical spirituality and community forests: monks, ritual, and radical conservatism in Thailand / Paul Greenough, Anna Lowenhaupt -- Warwick Anderson -- Charles Zerner -- Roger Jeffery ... [et al.] -- Michael R. Dove -- Anna Lowenhaupt -- Ann Grodzins Gold -- Paul Greenough -- Nancy Lee Peluso -- K. Sivaramakrishman -- Amita Baviskar -- J. Peter Brosius -- Susan M. Darlington. PART I. SCALES, LOGICS, AND AGENTS -- Tropical knowledges -- Rural landscaping -- PART II. TOWARD LIVABLE ENVIRONMENTS: COMPROMISES AND CAMPAINGS -- States of nature / states in nature -- Uneasy allies --


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Environmental management--South Asia.
Sustainable development--South Asia.
Environmental management--Southeast Asia.
Sustainable development--Southeast Asia.


Electronic books.

GE320.S64 / N37 2003