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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Map of the Island 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
Über den Autor
Paige West is professor of anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University.
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