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Book SynopsisDeals with conservation and development in Madagascar
Trade ReviewForest and Labor in Madagascar . . . is a worthwhile contribution to [the] growing body of scholarship on the social ramifications of conservation efforts.
* Anthropology of Work Review *
Forest and Labor in Madagascar is ethnographically rich, and anthropologists working in the developing South will recognize much that it covers.
* American Anthropologist *
Those interested in conservation, tropical rainforest ecology, international political economy, and sustainable development will find Forest and Labor in Madagascar an insightful case study.
* Choice *
Throughout the book, it is clear that Sodikoff has both a great knowledge of and a deep respect for the people and the environments of Madagascar. The result is a humane and approachable ethnography that would connect with both undergraduate and graduate students.
* American Ethnologist *
Forest and Labor in Madagascar is a pertinent and well-timed contribution to the growing literature on green neo-liberalism and its consequences at a time when the term 'salvage frontier' is becoming applicable to ever-greater swathes of this planet.
* Journal of Modern African Studies *
Through rich and thick ethnographic description, Forest and Labor in Madagascar delivers what its title promises: providing the reader with a historically informed and detailed overview of the relations between forest conservation and labour dynamics on the Malagasy Island. . . . [F]or those interested in a solid, rich, and detailed ethnography of socio-environmental change and those interested in the politics of nature and broader labour issues in Madagascar, this is an excellent read.
* Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
Clearly organized and wonderfully written, [this book] provides invaluable insights on how frontline conservation workers shape (or can't) and fit within (or don't) the convoluted workings of global conservation practice.
* Intl Jrnl African Historical Studies *
[Sodikoff] takes her readers on a wonderful tour along the underbelly of conservation work in order to give them a clear understanding of how labour plays out in a political economy ruled mainly by conservation stakeholders.
* Africa *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
A Word on the Orthography and Pronunciation
1. Geographies of Borrowed Time
2. Overland on Foot, Aloft: An Anatomy of the Social Structure
3. Land and Languor: On What Makes Good Work
4. Toward a New Nature: Rank and Value in Conservation Bureaucracy
5. Contracting Space: Making Deals in a Global Hot Spot
6. How the Dead Matter: The Production of Heritage
7. Cooked Rice Wages: Internal Contradiction and Subjective Experience
Epilogue: Workers of the Vanishing World
Glossary of Malagasy Words
Notes
Bibliography
Index
