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 landscape led to extremely
deleterious changes in rural well-being; and how uneasy
environmental compromises are forged in the present among rural,
urban, and global allies. Contributors: Warwick Anderson Amita
Baviskar Peter Brosius Susan Darlington Michael R. Dove Ann
Grodzins Gold Paul Greenough Roger Jeffery Nancy Peluso K.
Sivaramakrishnan Nandini Sundar Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Charles
Zerner
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