Contested Grounds

Essays on Nature, Culture, and Power
Herausgeber: Baviskar, Amita

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the relations between nature, culture, and power as they shape our lives and the world we inhabit.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780195695854
• ISBN-10: 0195695852
• Artikelnr.: 24764839

Autorenporträt

Amita Baviskar is a sociologist at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* 1: Introduction: Contested Grounds: Nature, Culture and Power (Amita
Baviskar)
* 2: Water and Waste: Nature, Productivity, and Colonialism in the
Indus Basin (David Gilmartin)
* 3: Contexts and Constructions of Scarcity (Lyla Mehta)
* 4: Environmental Insecurities: Geopolitics, Resources and Conflict
(Simon Dalby)
* 5: Investing in Nature around Sylhet: An Excursion into Geographical
History (David Ludden)
* 6: Economies of Violence: More Oil, More Blood (Michael Watts)
* 7: Natural Resources and Capitalist Frontiers (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing)
* 8: Cultural Theory, Climate Change and Clumsiness (Michael Thompson)
* 9: Whos in Charge? Reflections on the Worldwide Displacement of
Democratic Judgement by Expert Assessments (Steve Rayner)
* 10: Situating Resource Struggles: Concepts for Empirical Analysis
(Tania Li)
* References
* Notes on contributors
* Index