Ethnographies of conservation; contents; maps and figures; acknowledgements; notes on the contributors; introduction; part i: anthropology, ecopolitics and discrimination; chapter 1. pitfalls of synchronicity; chapter 2. nature as contested terrain; chapter 3. the environment at the periphery; part ii: distributing justice within protected landscapes; chapter 4. protest, conflict and litigation; chapter 5. environmentalism in syrian badia; chapter 6. 'ecocide and genocide'; chapter 7. promoting consumption in the rainforest; part iii: writing environmentalism
Chapter 8. 'we still are soviet people'chapter 9. the ecology of markets in central siberia; chapter 10. contrasting landscapes, conflicting ontologies; chapter 11. ecologism as an idiom in amazonian anthropology; bibliography; index
Summary
Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of ""pristine nature"" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that critical attention would be better turned on discourses of ""primitiveness"" and ""pristine nature"" so prevalent within conservation ideology, and on t
