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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 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.
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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 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.
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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 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.
Paige West is professor of anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Map of the Island of New Guinea Introduction 1. "Such a Site for Play, This Edge": Tourism and Modernist Fantasy 2. "We Are Here to Build Your Capacity": Development as a Vehicle for Accumulation and Dispossession 3. Discovering the Already Known: Tree Kangaroos, Explorer Imaginings, and Indigenous Articulations 4. Indigenous Theories of Accumulation, Dispossession, Possession, and Sovereignty Afterword. Birdsongs: In Memory of Neil Smith (1954–2012) Notes Bibliography Index
