Conservation Is Our Government Now
- ISBN13:
9780822337126
- ISBN10:
0822337126
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2006-06-30
- Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
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Summary
"Incisive, moving, and beautifully written, "Conservation Is Our Government Now" is an absolutely exemplary study and a completely absorbing narrative. It is quite simply one of the most sophisticated political ecology books I have read to date."--Neil Smith, author of "The Endgame of Globalization"
Author Biography
Paige West is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Abbreviations and Acronyms | |
| New Guinea-New York | |
| Making Crater Mountain | |
| Articulations, Histories, Development | |
| Conservation Histories | |
| A Land of Pure Possibility | |
| The Practices of Conservation-as-Development | |
| Exchanging Conservation for Development | |
| Appendices | |
| Notes | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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