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Dispossession and the Environment

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Dispossession and the Environment

By Paige West

8 Ratings • 4.6 of 5

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About the book

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 capi...Show more

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9780231178792

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2016

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Dispossession and the Environment

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