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Book SynopsisTrade Review"McElwee’s description of environmental rule in Vietnam helps readers look beyond simplistic explanations of environmental policy to see the more complex processes at play in defining and intervening in various social and environmental issues. . . McElwee’s book will be of great interest to those who focus on environmental policy and the interplay of social-ecological systems. Recommended."
* Choice *
"Forests Are Gold offers a timely analysis that will appeal to scholars far beyond Southeast Asia. . . . It should inspire upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars to rethink assumptions about the virtues of environmentalism by showing us how such reasoning has never been just about trees.—"
-- Allison Truitt * American Anthropologist *
"A wonderful and timely addition to the literature on political ecology. . . . In presenting the dilemmas and projects of forest conservation over the last century, she convincingly demonstrates that if forests can and do act beyond humans, the generativity of these activities is lost on those who seek to more efficiently administer them."
-- Nikhil Anand * American Ethnologist (AE) *
Table of ContentsForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Preface
Acknowledgments
Vietnamese Terminology
Abbreviations
Introduction | Seeing the Trees and People for the Forests
1. Forests for Profit or Posterity? The Emergence of Environmental Rule under French Colonialism
2. Planting New People: Socialism, Settlement, and Subjectivity in the Postcolonial Forest
3. Illegal Loggers and Heroic Rangers: The Discovery of Deforestation in Đổi Mới (Renovation) Vietnam
4. Rule by Reforestation: Classifying Bare Hills and Claiming Forest Transitions
5. Calculating Carbon and Ecosystem Services: New Regimes of Environmental Rule for Forests
Conclusion | Environmental Rule in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
References
Index
