{"product_id":"conservation-is-our-government-now-9780822337492","title":"Conservation Is Our Government Now","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eConservation Is Our Government Now\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and significant contribution to contemporary critical scholarship on conservation. More than any other study of which I am aware, it provides an ethnographically rich, nuanced account of the encounter between conservation practitioners and a local community. It is an exemplar of the power of ethnographic writing to reveal other subjectivities and other ways of being.”—J. Peter Brosius, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eCommunities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Incisive, moving, and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eConservation Is Our Government Now\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Endgame of Globalization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xxiii\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations and Acronyms xxix\u003cbr\u003e 1. New Guinea-New York 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Making Crater Mountain 27\u003cbr\u003e 3. Articulations, Histories, Development 52\u003cbr\u003e 4. Conservation Histories 125\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Land of Pure Possibility 147\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Practices of Conservation-as-Development 183\u003cbr\u003e 7. Exchanging Conservation for Development 215\u003cbr\u003e Appendices 239\u003cbr\u003e Notes 251\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 279\u003cbr\u003e Index 311","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406041588055,"sku":"9780822337492","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822337492.jpg?v=1730494342","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conservation-is-our-government-now-9780822337492","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}