Dispossession and the Environment : : Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea / / Paige West.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: West, Paige,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 10 b&w photographs and 2 maps
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Map of the Early Colonial Boundaries of New Guinea --; Introduction --; 1. "Such a Site for Play, This Edge": Tourism and Modernist Fantasy --; 2. "We Are Here to Build Your Capacity": Development as a Vehicle for Accumulation and Dispossession --; 3. Discovering the Already Known: Tree Kangaroos, Explorer Imaginings, and Indigenous Articulations --; 4. Indigenous Theories of Accumulation, Dispossession, Possession, and Sovereignty --; Afterword. Birdsongs: In Memory of Neil Smith (1954-2012) --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231541923; 9783110638578
• DOI: 10.7312/west17878
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paige West.

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.