Moral Ecologies Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance /

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• Other Authors: Griffin, Carl J. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Jones, Roy (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Robertson, Iain J. M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
• Subjects: World history.; History.; Social history.; Civilization-History.; Environmental sciences-Philosophy.; Historical geography.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; History of Science.; Social History.; Cultural History.; Environmental Philosophy.; Historical Geography.

This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation schemes and policies define once customary and vernacular forms of managing common resources as banditry-and how the 'bandits' fight back. Drawing inspiration from Karl Jacoby's seminal Crimes against Nature, this b...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Moral Ecologies: Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance
• I. Conservation as Dispossession
• 2. Politics of Conservation, Moral Ecology and Resistance by the Sonaha Indigenous Minorities of Nepal
• 3. Global Ecologies and Local Moralities: Conservation and Contention on Western Australia's Gascoyne Coast
• 4. From Activists to Illegally Occupying Land: Aboriginal Resistance as Moral Ecology in Perth, Western Australia
• 5. Ghosts in the Forest: The Moral Ecology of Environmental Governance toward Poor Farmers in the Brazilian and US Atlantic Forests
• II. Conservation as Occupation
• 6. Crimes against Cultures: How Local Practices of Regulation Shape Archaeological Landscapes in Trowulan, East Java
• 7. Of Necessary Work: The Longue Durée of the Moral Ecology of the Hebridean Gàidhealtachd
• 8. Demographic Fluidity and Moral Ecology: Queenstown (Tasmania) and a Lesson in Precarious Process
• 9. 'Fearless, Free and Bold': The Moral Ecology of Kelly Country
• 10. Squatting as Moral Ecology: the Politics of Dwelling in the New Forest, England
• 11. A 'Moral Ecology' of Afrikaner Settlement in German East Africa, 1902-1914
• 12. Afterword: On Moral Ecologies and Archival Absences. .