Donald S. Moore / Jake Kosek / Anand Pandian

Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference

Herausgeber: Moore, Donald S; Pandian, Anand; Kosek, Jake

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How do race and nature work as terrains of power? Synthesizing a number of fields - anthropology, cultural studies, and critical race, feminist, and postcolonial theory, this title analyses diverse historical, cultural, and spatial locations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 149mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330912
• ISBN-10: 0822330911
• Artikelnr.: 21494158

Autorenporträt

Donald S. Moore is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Jake Kosek is a geographer and a Lang Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. Anand Pandian is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nature: Terrains of Power
and Practice / Donald S. Moore, Anand Pandian, and Jake Kosek 1
Part One. Calculating Improvements 71
1. After the Great White Error . . . The Great Black Mirage / Paul Gilroy
73
2. Simians, Savages, Skulls, and Sex: Science and Colonial Militarism in
Nineteenth-Century South Africa / Zine Magubane 99
3. “The More You Kill the More You Will Live”: The Maya, “Race,” and
Biopolitical Hopes fro Peace in Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson 122
Part Two. Landscapes of Purity and Pollution
4. “There is a Land Where Everything is Pure": Linguistic Nationalism and
Identity Politics in Germany / Uli Linke 149
5. “On the Raggedy Edge of Risk": Articulations of Race and Nature after
Biology / Bruce Braun 175
6. Beyond Ecoliberal “Common Futures": Environmental Justice, Toxic
Touring, and a Transcommunal Politics of Place / Giovanna Di Chiro 204
7. Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the
Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis / Keith
Wailoo 235
8. For the Love of a Good Dog: Webs of Action in the World of Dog Genetics
/ Donna Haraway 254
9. Intimate Publics: Race, Property, and Personhood / Robyn Wiegman 296
Part Four. The Politics of Representation 321
10. Men in Paradise: Sex Tourism and the Political Economy of Masculinity /
Steven Gregory 323
11. Pulp Fictions of Indigenism / Alcida Ramos 356
12. Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the Limits of Recognition in
Indonesia’s Forest Zone / Tania Murray Li 380
Bibliography 407
Contributors 461
Index 465