Ethnographies of conservation : environmentalism and the distribution of privilege

Anderson, David G., 1949- (Added Author). Berglund, Eeva K. (Added Author).

Summary: Written from a critical perspective, these essays question many of the assumptions about nature and local peoples made by members of ecological and environmental movements and pressure groups. The contributors draw attention to the patronising attitudes that help maintain indigenous peoples in abject poverty.

Record details

ISBN: 1571816968
ISBN: 9781571816962
ISBN: 1571814647
ISBN: 9781571814647
Physical Description: print
xi, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published: 2003.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : Towards an ethnography of ecological underprivilege / Eeva Berglund and David G. Anderson -- Pitfalls of synchronicity : a case study of the Caiçaras in the Atlantic rainforest of South-eastern Brazil / Cristina Adams -- Nature as contested terrain : conflicts over wilderness protection and local livelihoods in Río San Juan, Nicaragua / Anja Nygren -- The environment at the periphery : conflicting discourses on the forest in Tanimbar, Eastern Indonesia / Nicola Frost and Rachel Wrangham -- Protest, conflict and litigation : dissent or libel in resistance to a conservancy in North-west Namibia / Sian Sullivan -- Environmentalism in the Syrian Badia : the assumptions of degradation, protection and Bedouin misuse / Dawn Chatty -- 'Ecocide and genocide' : explorations of environmental justice in Lakota Sioux country / Bornali Halder -- Promoting consumption in the rainforest : global conservation in Papua New Guinea / David M. Ellis -- 'We are still Soviet people' : youth ecological culture in the Republic of Tatarstan and the legacy of the Soviet Union / Luna Rolle -- The ecology of markets in Central Siberia / David G. Anderson -- Contrasting landscapes, conflicting ontologies : assessing environmental conservation on Palawan Island (the Philippines) / Dario Novellino -- Ecologism as an idiom in Amazonian anthropology / Stephen Nugent.