Global Visions, Local Landscapes

A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar

AvLisa L. Gezon

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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In her new book, Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine and challenge global processes of land use and land degradation. She challenges analytical distinctions between separate 'local' and 'global' spaces, rather proposing that the global is one aspect of the local, to the extent that people in any given locale must act within the parameters of policies, authorities, and material conditions that have sources outside of the reach of immediate local networks. Her ethnographic study of Antankarana-identifying rice farmers and cattle herders in northern Madagascar weaves together an analysis of remotely sensed images of land cover over time with ethnographies of situated negotiations between human actors. She focuses in particular on the interplay of political authorities-including family-based elders, a regional indigenous authority, and an NGO charged with enforcement of conservation policies-in the context of specific contests over resource access. Gezon takes a micro-political approach in evaluating conflicts that result in a change in control over local resources by global or supra-national policies, capital, or personnel. Her book will be particularly valuable to researchers and students in anthropology, geography, sociology, and environmental studies, and those involved in conservation and resource management.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2006-09-15
Mått:152 x 230 x 18 mm
Vikt:367 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Globalization and the Environment
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:AltaMira Press
ISBN:9780759107380

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Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

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Lisa Gezon received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, and is currently Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of West Georgia. She has ongoing research projects in Madagascar and in the Georgia Piedmont on the politics of environmental resource management, and continues her research interests in issues of political ecology in the United States and abroad.

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[This] book is an important contribution to Malagasy studies and the dynamics of natural resource management, particularly in relation to conservation. The study is a must-read for everyone interested in these issues, precisely because it offers ethnography and anaylsis which lay bare the intrinsic foundations of the local politics dealt with and engaged in by international conservation agencies.

Innehållsförteckning

1 Chapter 1: Negotiated Landscapes2 PART I: Place in Perspective3 Chapter 2: The Global in the Local: Protected Area Management4 Chapter 3: Antankarana: Ethnic Identity, Royal Authority, and History5 Chapter 4: Patterns of Production6 Chapter 5: Conjunctures of Authority7 Part II: Resource Use as Socio-Political Process8 Chapter 6: The Missing Cattle: Shifting Relationships between Agriculture and Herding9 Chapter 7: Ritual and the Legitimacy of Kings: Rights to Forests and Graves10 Chapter 8: Making Place: Conservation and the Limits of Royal Authority11 Chapter 9: Managed Landscapes

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