Dispossession and the Environment

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Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

By Paige West

Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures

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In Dispossession and the Environment, Paige West examines how diverse actors including journalists, developers, and conservation NGOs perpetuate the overlooking and dispossession of Papua New Guineans by framing them as belonging to a 'prior' nature and culture. The book reveals the embedded racist representations that sustain global inequalities and critiques the ideological frameworks enabling capitalism's continual expansion.
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Ideal for academics and students in anthropology, environmental studies, political ecology, and Pacific studies, as well as readers interested in decolonial theory, global inequalities, and indigenous knowledge systems.

Paige West’s searing study of Papua New Guinea 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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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. Dispossession and the Environment, Paige West's searing study, reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalised 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.

Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures

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Praised for its rigorous research and theoretical depth, the book is described as a brilliant and incisive work that challenges the entrenched nature/culture divide sustaining white supremacy and capitalism. It is recognised as essential reading for scholars across anthropology, environmental studies, and Pacific studies, and is hailed as a much-needed decolonial intervention that elucidates indigenous philosophy and political ecology in understanding dispossession.

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ISBN: 9780231178792

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 October 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Columbia University Press

Illustration: 10 b&w photographs and 2 maps

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 216

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Australian & Pacific History Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Paige West Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures

About the Author

Paige West is professor of anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University.

Dispossession and the Environment