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Nine-Tenths of the Law
Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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An exploration of the relationship between possession and legalization across Indonesia, and how people navigate dispossessionThe old aphorism “possession is nine-tenths of the law” is particularly relevant in Indonesia, which has seen a string of regime changes and a shifting legal landscape for …
Trees Are Shape Shifters
How Cultivation, Climate Change, and Disaster Create Landscapes
Häftad, 2022
406 kr
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An exploration of the anthropogenic landscapes of Lucca, Italy, and how its people understand social and environmental change through cultivation In Italy and around the Mediterranean, almost every stone, every tree, and every hillside show traces of human activities. Situating climate change …
Saving a Rainforest and Losing the World
Conservation and Displacement in the Global Tropics
Häftad, 2024
398 kr
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An unflinching investigation of the false promises of land sparing, exposing how its illusory successes mask the failures of green capitalism For two decades, the concept of land sparing, the claim that agricultural intensification can spare land by preventing forest clearing for agricultural …
Art of Not Being Governed
An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2010
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276 kr
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From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length from any organized state society For two thousand years, the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous …
Land
A History in Seven Words
Av Steven Stoll
Inbunden, 2026
358 kr
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A sweeping meditation on the historical relationship between humans and land that challenges us to rethink common beliefsLand is the natural environment that humans have defined, shaped, and endlessly reinvented. In this lyrical narrative, Steven Stoll explores ways of thinking about land through …
Forests and Peasant Politics in Modern France
Inbunden, 2009
865 kr
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Confronting an ecological crisis in 1860, French officials initiated an unprecedented policy of alpine reforestation. The Alps, Pyrenees, and Massif Central mountains were fragile and degraded, scientific experts determined, and the salvation of the mountains (for the benefit of lowland farmers and …
Agrarian Studies
Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge
Häftad, 2001
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528 kr
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A fresh interdisciplinary analysis of rural society and agrarian issues This book presents an account of an intellectual breakthrough in the study of rural society and agriculture. Its ten chapters, selected for their originality and synthesis from the colloquia of the Program in Agrarian Studies …
Reclaiming the Commons
Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town
Häftad, 2001
565 kr
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This book is a lively account of a community working to combat suburban sprawl, to protect a large part of the landscape as common land, and to enjoy the land productively in an ecologically sustainable way. Based on the practical experience of one New England town, the book urges suburban …
Smart Alliance
How a Global Corporation and Environmental Activists Transformed a Tarnished Brand
Av J. Gary Taylor, Patricia J. Scharlin
Inbunden, 2004
643 kr
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A profit-driven multinational corporation and an upstart group of environmentalists surprise the world and forge an astonishingly successful partnershipLarge and wealthy global companies too often fail to acknowledge environmental responsibility or workers’ rights. This book tells the dramatic …
Nongovernmental Organizations in Environmental Struggles
Politics and the Making of Moral Capital in the Philippines
Inbunden, 2005
840 kr
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Why are nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) so successful in today’s world? How do they empower themselves? This insightful book provides important new perspectives on the strategic thinking of NGOs, the way they identify themselves, and how they behave. Raymond L. Bryant develops a novel …
Cold War Ecology
Forests, Farms, and People in the East German Landscape, 1945-1989
Av Arvid Nelson
Inbunden, 2005
1206 kr
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A new way of measuring the health of a political system: by examining the health of its landscapes and ecosystemsEast Germany, its economy, and its society were in decline long before the country’s political collapse in the late 1980s. The clues were there in the natural landscape, Arvid Nelson …
Nature of Entrustment
Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa
Inbunden, 2007
931 kr
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This groundbreaking book addresses issues of the keenest interest to anthropologists, specialists on Africa, and those concerned with international aid and development. Drawing on extensive research among the Luo people in western Kenya and abroad over many years, Parker Shipton provides an …
Mortgaging the Ancestors
Ideologies of Attachment in Africa
Inbunden, 2009
912 kr
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This fascinating interdisciplinary book is about land, belonging, and the mortgage—and how people of different cultural backgrounds understand them in Africa. Drawing on years of ethnographic observation, Parker Shipton discusses how people in Africa’s interior feel about their attachment to …
Imperial Nature
The World Bank and Struggles for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization
Häftad, 2006
858 kr
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A piercing, first-hand analysis of the World Bank, one of the most powerful actors in today's global economy.Why is the World Bank so successful? How has it gained power even at moments in history when it seemed likely to fall? This pathbreaking book is the first close examination of the inner …
Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China
Av Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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Drawing on more than a quarter century of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state from the 1960s to the start of the twenty-first century. The authors provide a vivid portrait of how resilient villagers struggle to …
Contesting Development
Participatory Projects and Local Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia
Av Michael Woolcock, Patrick Barron m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
972 kr
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This pathbreaking book analyzes a highly successful participatory development program in Indonesia, exploring its distinctive origins and design principles and its impacts on local conflict dynamics and social institutions.
Land Reform in Russia
Institutional Design and Behavioral Responses
Häftad, 2009
785 kr
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This ambitious work is the definitive account of Russia’s land reform initiatives from the late 1980s to today. In Russia, a country controlling more land than any other nation, land ownership is central to structures of power, class division, and agricultural production. The aim of Russian land …
Banana Tree at the Gate
A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo
Inbunden, 2011
1206 kr
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The “Hikayat Banjar,” a native court chronicle from Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as “the banana tree at the gate.” Michael R. Dove employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous peoples of …
Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm
Principles and Applications in Research Practices
Av Devra I. Jarvis, Toby Hodgkin m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
638 kr
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Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world. Showcasing the findings of seven experts representing the fields of ecology, crop breeding, genetics, anthropology, economics, and policy, …
Squeezed
What You Don't Know About Orange Juice
Häftad, 2010
492 kr
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How orange juice became a North American breakfast staple and what “100% pure orange juice” means todayClose to three quarters of U.S. households buy orange juice. Its popularity crosses class, cultural, racial, and regional divides. Why do so many of us drink orange juice? How did it turn from a …
Notes from the Ground
Science, Soil, & Society in the American Countryside
Häftad, 2011
492 kr
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Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in early America.Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together …
Black Ranching Frontiers
African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900
Inbunden, 2012
994 kr
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In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labor, property, and commerce in …
Credit Between Cultures
Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa
Häftad, 2010
619 kr
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Parker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives—cultural, economic, political, and religious-philosophical—and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half century …
American Georgics
Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land
Av Brian Donahue, Edwin C. Hagenstein m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
695 kr
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A rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing from the past two centuries, reflecting how shifting views on agriculture have shaped American society, from the first European settlers to the modern organic movement. From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic …
Dancing with the River
People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
Av Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Gopa Samanta
Inbunden, 2013
1096 kr
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An intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid landscapes” and their inhabitantsWith this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid environments.” Focusing on chars—the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that …
All the Trees of the Forest
Israel’s Woodlands from the Bible to the Present
Av Alon Tal
Inbunden, 2013
1206 kr
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The extraordinary story of Israel’s forests, from ancient times to the present.In this insightful and provocative book, Alon Tal provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into …
Constructing Private Governance
The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification
Av Graeme Auld
Häftad, 2014
565 kr
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An exploration of product certification programs and the factors that explain their varied success in becoming global governors equipped to tackle environmental and social problems effectivelyConsumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desirable …
Every Twelve Seconds
Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
Häftad, 2013
270 kr
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A political scientist goes undercover in a modern industrial slaughterhouse for this twenty-first-century update of Upton Sinclair’s The JungleThis is an account of industrialized killing from a participant’s point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover …
Managing the Mountains
Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia
Häftad, 2013
544 kr
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Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. This book uncovers the early twentieth-century history rich with precedents for the New Deal in forest, park, and agricultural policy. Sara M. Gregg explores the redevelopment of …
Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union
Inbunden, 2014
959 kr
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An authoritative study of food politics in the socialist regimes of China and the Soviet UnionDuring the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political …
