Nature in the Global South ：Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia

Publication subTitle ：Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia

Author： Paul Greenough  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2003

E-ISBN: 9780822385004

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822331490

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822331506

Subject： F1 The World Economic Profiles , Economic History , Economic Geography

Keyword： Environmental management -- South Asia -- Sustainable development -- South Asia., Environmental management -- South Asia, Sustainable development -- South Asia., Environmental management -- Southeast Asia., Sustainable development -- Southeast Asia.

Language： ENG

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A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in these regions are biological classification, state forest management, tropical ecology, imperial water control, public health, and community-based conservation. Focusing on these and other ways that nature has been shaped and defined, this pathbreaking collection of essays describes projects of exploitation, administration, science, and community protest.

With contributors based in anthropology, ecology, sociology, history, and environmental and policy studies, Nature in the Global South features some of the most innovative and influential work being done in the social studies of nature. While some of the essays look at how social and natural landscapes are created, maintained, and transformed by scientists, officials, monks, and farmers, others analyze specific campaigns to eradicate smallpox and save forests, waterways, and animal habitats. In case studies centered in the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia, and South and Southeast Asia as a whole, contributors examine how the tropics, the jungle, tribes, and peasants are understood and transformed; how shifts in colonial ideas about the land

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CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

PART I Scales, Logics, and Agents

The Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics

Dividing Lines: Nature, Culture, and Commerce in Indonesia’s Aru Islands, 1856–1997

A 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

PART II Toward Livable Environments: Compromises and Campaigns

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 Geneaologies 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

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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