Offers 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.
Offers 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.
Preface vii Introduction / Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 1 Part I Scales, Logics, and Agents Tropical Knowledges The Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics / Warwick Anderson 29 Dividing Lines: Nature, Culture, and Commerce in Indonesia's Aru Islands, 1856-1997 / Charles Zerner 47 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 Rural Landscaping Forest Discourses in South and Southeast Asia: A Comparison with Global Discourses / Michael R. Dove 103 Agrarian Allegory and Global Futures / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 124 Foreign Trees: Lives and Landscapes in Rajasthan / Ann Grodzins Gold 170 Part II Toward Livable Environments: Compromises and Campaigns States of Nature / States in Nature Pathogens, Pugmarks, and Political "Emergency": The 1970s South Asian Debate on Nature / Paul Greenough 201 Territorializing Local Struggles for Resource Control; A Look at Environmnetal Discourses and Politics in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso 231 Scientific Forestry and Geneaologies of Development in Bengal / K. Sivaramakrishnan 253 Uneasy Allies Tribal Politics and Discourses of Indian Environmentalism / Amita Baviskar 289 Voices for the Borneo Rain Forest: Writing the History of an Environmental Campaign / J. Peter Brosius 319 Practical Spirituality and Community Forests: Monks, Ritual, and Radical Conservatism in Thailand / Susan M. Darlington 347 Bibliography 367 Contributors 411 Index 413
Preface vii Introduction / Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 1 Part I Scales, Logics, and Agents Tropical Knowledges The Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics / Warwick Anderson 29 Dividing Lines: Nature, Culture, and Commerce in Indonesia's Aru Islands, 1856-1997 / Charles Zerner 47 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 Rural Landscaping Forest Discourses in South and Southeast Asia: A Comparison with Global Discourses / Michael R. Dove 103 Agrarian Allegory and Global Futures / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 124 Foreign Trees: Lives and Landscapes in Rajasthan / Ann Grodzins Gold 170 Part II Toward Livable Environments: Compromises and Campaigns States of Nature / States in Nature Pathogens, Pugmarks, and Political "Emergency": The 1970s South Asian Debate on Nature / Paul Greenough 201 Territorializing Local Struggles for Resource Control; A Look at Environmnetal Discourses and Politics in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso 231 Scientific Forestry and Geneaologies of Development in Bengal / K. Sivaramakrishnan 253 Uneasy Allies Tribal Politics and Discourses of Indian Environmentalism / Amita Baviskar 289 Voices for the Borneo Rain Forest: Writing the History of an Environmental Campaign / J. Peter Brosius 319 Practical Spirituality and Community Forests: Monks, Ritual, and Radical Conservatism in Thailand / Susan M. Darlington 347 Bibliography 367 Contributors 411 Index 413
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