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Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea Paperback – 11 October 2016
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- ISBN-100231178794
- ISBN-13978-0231178792
- Edition1st
- PublisherColumbia University Press
- Publication date11 October 2016
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions21.59 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm
- Print length216 pages
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How do we ensure that anthropology does not set the stage for dispossession? This brilliant, powerful collection of essays by Paige West demonstrates the profoundly material effects of disabling colonial and anthropological representations of Melanesia. Papua New Guinean lives and environments matter, and hardly just for the benefit of capitalists, tourists, conservationists, and social scientists.--Katerina Teaiwa, author of Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba
In this intellectually groundbreaking study of uneven development, Paige West demonstrates how non-material representations of people and place in Papua New Guinea have profound material consequences. Her masterful analysis examines accumulation by dispossession through representational strategies that allow surfers, development experts, and other expatriates to dispossess Papua New Guineans of both their culture and their environment. A unique and powerful contribution to political ecology and environmental studies.--Jerry Jacka, author of Alchemy in the Rain Forest: Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area
In this wide-ranging, passionately argued and beautifully written book, West examines the discursive, semiotic and visual strategies that work to dispossess Papua New Guineans of their land, livelihoods and sovereignty. Through lively case studies, she demonstrates not only the depth of ethnographic insight that only results from long-term engagement with communities, but also makes important connections between diverse sets of theory. This book is an important reminder of what anthropology can, and should, be.--Joshua A. Bell, curator of globalization, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Provocative and absorbing, Dispossession and the Environment clarifies the roles that ideologies of 'nature' and 'culture' play in the production of global inequalities. West demonstrates how indigenous philosophy and political ecology can offer new grounds for theorizing worlds remade by dispossession. A much-needed intervention in current debates over ontology and epistemology, this is decolonial anthropology at its best.--Ty P. Kawika Tengan, author of Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i
This is a brilliant work with theoretical force and wide-ranging epistemological and ethical implications. Rigorously researched and historically grounded, West documents how representational strategies - discursive, semiotic, and visual - in relation to Papua New Guinea underpin the enduring boundary between the nature/culture divide, which produces destructive material effects while entrenching white supremacy and capitalism in the globalized world of the twenty-first century. Rich, lucid, and incisive, Dispossession and the Environment is a must-read for scholars in anthropology, environmental studies, Pacific studies, and beyond.--J. Kehaulani Kauanui, professor of anthropology and American studies, Wesleyan University
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- Publisher : Columbia University Press
- Publication date : 11 October 2016
- Edition : 1st
- Language : English
- Print length : 216 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0231178794
- ISBN-13 : 978-0231178792
- Item weight : 1.05 kg
- Dimensions : 21.59 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm
- Part of series : Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
- Best Sellers Rank: 387,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 30 in History of Papua New Guinea
- 58 in Geography Textbooks
- 409 in History of Oceania
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About the author

Paige West joined the faculty at Barnard College and Columbia University in 2001, the year after earning her Ph.D. in cultural and environmental anthropology at Rutgers University. She is currently The Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology, and holds an endowed chair.
Dr. West’s broad scholarly interest is the relationship between societies and their environments. More specifically, she has written about the linkages between environmental conservation and international development, the material and symbolic ways in which the natural world is understood and produced, the aesthetics and poetics of human social relations with nature, and the creation of commodities and practices of consumption.
In 2008 Dr. West founded the journal Environment and Society: Advances in Research. She currently serves as the journal’s editor. Dr. West’s most recent book, Dispossession and the Environment, is the winner of the 2017 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award.
In addition to her academic work, Dr. West is the co-founder, and a board member, of the PNG Institute of Biological Research, a small NGO dedicated to building academic opportunities for research in Papua New Guinea by Papua New Guineans. Dr. West is also the co-founder of the Roviana Solwara Skul, a school in Papua New Guinea dedicated to teaching at the nexus of indigenous knowledge and western scientific knowledge.
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