Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea
(Part of the Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231178794
ISBN13:9780231178792
Release Date:October 2016
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:216 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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