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

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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.
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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
ISBN
  • 9780231541923 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0231541929 ((electronic bk.))
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JSTOR purchased
LCCN
2016008164
OCLC
959033113
Doi
  • 10.7312/west17878
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