Dispossession and the Environment : Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : West Paige ;
- Editeurs : New York, NY Columbia University Press ;
- Date d'édition : [2016]
- Sujets : Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea, Indigenous peoples
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Pays de publication : Allemagne
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Résumé
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