Alchemy in the Rain Forest

Name: Alchemy in the Rain Forest
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9780822359791
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Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area

Autor: Jerry K Jacka

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Duke University Press

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In "Alchemy in the Rain Forest" Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New G...

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Autor

Jerry K Jacka

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2015

strony

296

EAN

9780822359791

ISBN

0822359790

Enbook ID

09249131

Wydawca

Duke University Press

Waga

578

Wymiary

240 x 161 x 22

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In "Alchemy in the Rain Forest" Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's Porgeran highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology, and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the impacts large-scale commercial gold mining in the region has had on ecology and social relations. Despite the deadly inter-clan violence and widespread pollution brought on by mining, the uneven distribution of its financial benefits has led many Porgerans to call for further development. This desire for increased mining, Jacka points out, counters popular portrayals of indigenous people as innate conservationists who defend the environment from international neoliberal development. Jacka's examination of the ways Porgerans search for common ground between capitalist and indigenous ways of knowing and being points to the complexity and interconnectedness of land, indigenous knowledge, and the global economy in Porgera and beyond.

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