Dispossession And The Environment: Rhetoric And Inequality In Papua New Guinea (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures)

When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all uneven patterns of development and seeks a more robust understanding of the ideological work that capital requires for constant regeneration.

• | Author: Paige West
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 11, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0231178794
• | ISBN-13: 9780231178792