{"product_id":"nature-in-the-global-south-9780822331490","title":"Nature in the Global South","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia. This book looks at how social and natural landscapes are created, maintained, and transformed by scientists, government administrators, monks, and farmers. It also analyzes campaigns to eradicate smallpox and save forests, waterways, and animal habitats.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bringing together insights from cultural studies, critical anthropology, and environmental history, this collection provides a robust rethinking of regionalism in South and Southeast Asia.\u003ci\u003e Nature in the Global South\u003c\/i\u003e makes crucial contributions to the emerging interdisciplinary field of the cultural politics of environmental struggles, assembling an impressive array of acclaimed scholars.”—Donald S. Moore, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eRace, Nature, and the Politics of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I Scales, Logics, and Agents \u003cbr\u003e Tropical Knowledges \u003cbr\u003e The Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics \/ Warwick Anderson 29\u003cbr\u003e Dividing Lines: Nature, Culture, and Commerce in Indonesia's Aru Islands, 1856-1997 \/ Charles Zerner 47\u003cbr\u003e A Move from Minor to Major: Competing Discourses of Nontimber Forest Products in India \/ Roger Jeffery and Nandini Sundar, with Abha Mishra, Neeraj Peter, and Pradeep J. Tharakan 79\u003cbr\u003e Rural Landscaping \u003cbr\u003e Forest Discourses in South and Southeast Asia: A Comparison with Global Discourses \/ Michael R. Dove 103\u003cbr\u003e Agrarian Allegory and Global Futures \/ Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 124\u003cbr\u003e Foreign Trees: Lives and Landscapes in Rajasthan \/ Ann Grodzins Gold 170\u003cbr\u003e Part II Toward Livable Environments: Compromises and Campaigns \u003cbr\u003e States of Nature \/ States in Nature \u003cbr\u003e Pathogens, Pugmarks, and Political \"Emergency\": The 1970s South Asian Debate on Nature \/ Paul Greenough 201\u003cbr\u003e Territorializing Local Struggles for Resource Control; A Look at Environmnetal Discourses and Politics in Indonesia \/ Nancy Lee Peluso 231\u003cbr\u003e Scientific Forestry and Geneaologies of Development in Bengal \/ K. Sivaramakrishnan 253\u003cbr\u003e Uneasy Allies \u003cbr\u003e Tribal Politics and Discourses of Indian Environmentalism \/ Amita Baviskar 289\u003cbr\u003e Voices for the Borneo Rain Forest: Writing the History of an Environmental Campaign \/ J. Peter Brosius 319\u003cbr\u003e Practical Spirituality and Community Forests: Monks, Ritual, and Radical Conservatism in Thailand \/ Susan M. Darlington 347\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 367\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 411\u003cbr\u003e Index 413","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406033133911,"sku":"9780822331490","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nature-in-the-global-south-9780822331490","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}