Nature in the Global South

"Bringing together insights from cultural studies, critical anthropology, and environmental history, this collection provides a robust rethinking of regionalism in South and Southeast Asia. Nature in the Global South makes crucial contributions to the emerging interdisciplinary field of the cultural politics of environmental struggles, assembling an impressive array of acclaimed scholars."-Donald S. Moore, coeditor of Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference

Paul Greenough is Professor in the Departments of History and Community and Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-1944 and the editor of "Global Immunization and Culture: Compliance and Resistance in Large-Scale Public Health Campaigns," a special issue of Social Science and Medicine. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place and coeditor of Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture.

Preface vii Introduction / Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 1 Part I Scales, Logics, and Agents Tropical Knowledges The Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics / Warwick Anderson 29 Dividing Lines: Nature, Culture, and Commerce in Indonesia's Aru Islands, 1856-1997 / Charles Zerner 47 A Move from Minor to Major: Competing Discourses of Nontimber Forest Products in India / Roger Jeffery and Nandini Sundar, with Abha Mishra, Neeraj Peter, and Pradeep J. Tharakan 79 Rural Landscaping Forest Discourses in South and Southeast Asia: A Comparison with Global Discourses / Michael R. Dove 103 Agrarian Allegory and Global Futures / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 124 Foreign Trees: Lives and Landscapes in Rajasthan / Ann Grodzins Gold 170 Part II Toward Livable Environments: Compromises and Campaigns States of Nature / States in Nature Pathogens, Pugmarks, and Political "Emergency": The 1970s South Asian Debate on Nature / Paul Greenough 201 Territorializing Local Struggles for Resource Control; A Look at Environmnetal Discourses and Politics in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso 231 Scientific Forestry and Geneaologies of Development in Bengal / K. Sivaramakrishnan 253 Uneasy Allies Tribal Politics and Discourses of Indian Environmentalism / Amita Baviskar 289 Voices for the Borneo Rain Forest: Writing the History of an Environmental Campaign / J. Peter Brosius 319 Practical Spirituality and Community Forests: Monks, Ritual, and Radical Conservatism in Thailand / Susan M. Darlington 347 Bibliography 367 Contributors 411 Index 413