Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

by Paige West

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231178794
• ISBN13: 9780231178792
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher