{"product_id":"9780822385004","title":"TEST1 Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia","description":"A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, \u003ci\u003eNature in the Global South\u003c\/i\u003e is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in these regions are biological classification, state forest management, tropical ecology, imperial water control, public health, and community-based conservation. Focusing on these and other ways that nature has been shaped and defined, this pathbreaking collection of essays describes projects of exploitation, administration, science, and community protest.\u003cp\u003eWith contributors based in anthropology, ecology, sociology, history, and environmental and policy studies, \u003ci\u003eNature in the Global South\u003c\/i\u003e features some of the most innovative and influential work being done in the social studies of nature. While some of the essays look at how social and natural landscapes are created, maintained, and transformed by scientists, officials, monks, and farmers, others analyze specific campaigns to eradicate smallpox and save forests, waterways, and animal habitats. In case studies centered in the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia, and South and Southeast Asia as a whole, contributors examine how the tropics, the jungle, tribes, and peasants are understood and transformed; how shifts in colonial ideas about the landscape led to extremely deleterious changes in rural well-being; and how uneasy environmental compromises are forged in the present among rural, urban, and global allies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors:\u003cbr\u003eWarwick Anderson\u003cbr\u003eAmita Baviskar\u003cbr\u003ePeter Brosius\u003cbr\u003eSusan Darlington\u003cbr\u003eMichael R. Dove\u003cbr\u003eAnn Grodzins Gold\u003cbr\u003ePaul Greenough\u003cbr\u003eRoger Jeffery\u003cbr\u003eNancy Peluso\u003cbr\u003eK. Sivaramakrishnan\u003cbr\u003eNandini Sundar\u003cbr\u003eAnna Lowenhaupt Tsing\u003cbr\u003eCharles Zerner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080819294448,"sku":"9780822385004","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822385004_p0.jpg?v=1763753167","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822385004","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}