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Book SynopsisShared concern for nature can be a way of transcending national, ethnic, religious, and cultural boundaries, yet conservation efforts often pit the interests of historically rooted or indigenous people against the state and international environmental organizations. This title examines the cultural politics around nature conservation.
Trade Review"Heatherington expertly weaves an insightful analysis of global environmental hegemony; attendant cultural essentialisms; and the negotiation of authenticity, authority, and identity in relation to contested landscapes. . . This detailed and well-written case study is a must-read for anyone interested in political ecology, environmental justice, the anthropology of resistance, and cultural politics."
-- Aaron M. Lampman * American Ethnologist *
"Raises some fundamental ethical, theoretical and practical issues with respect to environmentalism and its intersection with community interests, nationalism and globalization . . ."
-- Subhadra Mitra Channa * Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale 20(2) *
"This volume.. is a remarkable academic intervention on both the thematic topics and the area in question. Wild Sardinia is an eloquent and complex piece of engaged anthropological scholarship that will find a home in many academic debates and fields. Heatherington grapples honestly and openly with difficult questions, those that typically haunt most academics who continue to do long-term fieldwork in places far and near to their home institutions.Apart from anthropologists, geographers, historians, conservation biologists, and political scientists will all benefit from parts or the whole of Wild Sardinia. Regardless of your own regional focus or disciplinary approach, you will find richly engaged and engaging material in this book. ."
* H-Net *
"What is so original about Heatherington's discussion of resistance is that she not only carefully documents the stiflingly tight parameters from within which Orgosolo residents voice their discontent. She also examines how a heavily routinized local discourse on resistance has taken on a social life of its own."
* Anthropological Quarterly *
Table of ContentsForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
Preface and Acknowledgments
Part One: Beginnings
Introduction
1. Ecology, Alterity, and Resistance
Part Two: Ecology
2. Envisioning the Supramonte
3. Intimate Landscapes
Part Three: Alterity
4. Dark Frontier
5. Seeing Like a State, Seeing Like an ENGO
Part Four: Resistance
6. Walking in Via Gramsci
7. Sin, Shame, and Sheep
Part Five: Post-Environmentalisms
8. Beyond Ethnographic Refusal
9. Hope and Mischief in the Global Dreamtimes
Appendix: List of Acronyms
Notes
Glossary of Italian and Sardinian Words
References
Index
