Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
Dispossession and the environment : rhetoric and inequality in Papua New Guinea / Paige West.
Author
West, Paige, 1969-
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
1 online resource (xii, 195 pages) : illustrations, maps
Availability
Available Online
JSTOR DDA
Details
Subject(s)
Ethnology
—
Papua New Guinea
[Browse]
Ethnoecology
—
Papua New Guinea
[Browse]
Indigenous peoples
—
Papua New Guinea
—
Social conditions
[Browse]
Papua New Guinea
—
Social conditions
[Browse]
Papua New Guinea
—
Environmental conditions
[Browse]
Series
University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures
[More in this series]
University Seminars Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures
Summary note
When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produces and reinforces inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all uneven patterns of development and seeks a more robust understanding of the ideological work that capital requires for constant regeneration.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Map of the Early Colonial Boundaries of New Guinea
Introduction
1. "Such a Site for Play, This Edge": Tourism and Modernist Fantasy
2. "We Are Here to Build Your Capacity": Development as a Vehicle for Accumulation and Dispossession
3. Discovering the Already Known: Tree Kangaroos, Explorer Imaginings, and Indigenous Articulations
4. Indigenous Theories of Accumulation, Dispossession, Possession, and Sovereignty
Afterword. Birdsongs: In Memory of Neil Smith (1954-2012)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Show 10 more Contents items
ISBN
9780231541923 ((electronic bk.))
0231541929 ((electronic bk.))
Tech. report no.
JSTOR purchased
LCCN
2016008164
OCLC
959033113
Doi
10.7312/west17878
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information
Other versions
Dispossession and the environment : rhetoric and inequality in Papua, New Guinea / Paige West.
id
99100120743506421