Jacka Jerry K. Jacka

Alchemy in the Rain Forest (eBook, PDF)

Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area

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Produktbeschreibung

In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the impacts large-scale commercial gold mining in the region has had on ecology and social relations. Despite the deadly interclan violence and widespread pollution brought on by mining, the uneven distribution of its financial benefits has led many Porgerans to call for further development. This desire for increased mining, Jacka points out, counters popular portrayals of indigenous people as innate conservationists who defend the environment from international neoliberal development. Jacka's examination of the ways Porgerans search for common ground between capitalist and indigenous ways of knowing and being points to the complexity and interconnectedness of land, indigenous knowledge, and the global economy in Porgera and beyond.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375012
• Artikelnr.: 54671529

Autorenporträt

Jerry K. Jacka

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
Part I. The Making of a Resource Frontier  21
1. Resource Frontiers in the Montane Tropics  25
2. Colonialism, Mining, and Missionization  49
Part II. Indigenous Philosophies of Nature, Culture, and Place  77
3. Land: Yu  81
4. People: Wandakali  105
5. Spirits: Yama  129
Part III. Social-Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses  157
6. Ecological Perturbations and Human Responses  157
7. Social Dislocations: Work, Antiwork, and Highway Life  199
Conclusion: Development, Resilience, and the End of the Land  229
Notes  241
References  249
Index  269