Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

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 produce and reinforce i...

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1. Verfasser: West, Paige (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Columbia University Press [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
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Zusammenfassung: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 produce and reinforce 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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (216 pages) 10 b&w photographs and 2 maps
ISBN:9780231541923
DOI:10.7312/west17878

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