Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

ISBN-13: 9780231178792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 216 str.

Paige West

Opis

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.