Nature in the Global South : Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1 Scales, Logics, and Agents -- Tropical Knowledges -- The Natures of Culture: Environment and Race in the Colonial Tropics -- Dividing Lines: Nature, Culture, and Commerce in Indonesia’s Aru Islands, 1856–1997 -- A Move from Minor to Major: Competing Discourses of Nontimber Forest Products in India -- Rural Landscaping -- Forest Discourses in South and Southeast Asia: A Comparison with Global Discourses -- Agrarian Allegory and Global Futures -- Foreign Trees: Lives and Landscapes in Rajasthan -- PART 2 Toward Livable Environments: Compromises and Campaigns -- States of Nature/States in Nature -- Pathogens, Pugmarks, and Political ‘‘Emergency’’: The 1970s South Asian Debate on Nature -- Territorializing Local Struggles for Resource Control: A Look at Environmental Discourses and Politics in Indonesia -- Scientific Forestry and Geneaologies of Development in Bengal -- Uneasy Allies -- Tribal Politics and Discourses of Indian Environmentalism -- Voices for the Borneo Rain Forest: Writing the History of an Environmental Campaign -- Practical Spirituality and Community Forests: Monks, Ritual, and Radical Conservatism in Thailand -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index