Contested grounds : essays on nature, culture, and power

Amita Baviskar, 1965-

Relation

Economic and political weekly.

LCCN 2008331354, NBN GBA893240, ISBN 9780195695854, ISBN 0195695852, LC:s förvärvsprogram I-E-2008-331354; 49-01; 69-01

utgivning

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2008

vi, 259 p.

edited by Amita Baviskar

Bok

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kategori

Bibliografi, Konferenser, Ej skönlitteratur

ämne

Natural resources--Political aspects--Congresses., Natural resources--Social aspects--Congresses., natural resources, human resources, value systems

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Sammanfattning

Contributed articles presented earlier at a conference held at Kathmandu in 2003; later serialized in the Economic and political weekly on political aspects of natural resources.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction / Amita Baviskar -- Water and waste: nature, productivity, and colonialism in the Indus Basin / David Gilmartin -- Contexts and constructions of scarcity / Lyla Mehta -- Environmental insecurities: geopolitics, resources, and conflict / Simon Dalby -- Investing in nature around Sylhet: an excursion into geographical history / David Ludden -- Economies of violence: more oil, more blood / Michael Watts -- Natural resources and capitalist frontiers / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- Cultural theory, climate change, and clumsiness / Michael Thompson -- Who's in charge? Reflections on the worldwide displacement of democratic judgement by expert assessments / Steve Rayner -- Situating resources struggles: concepts for empirical analysis / Tania Murray Li.