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Moral Ecologies

Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance

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Editors:
  1. Carl J. Griffin

    1. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

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  2. Roy Jones

    1. Curtin University, Perth, Australia

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  3. Iain J. M. Robertson

    1. University of the Highlands and Islands, Dornoch, UK

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  • Extends the concept of “moral ecology” developed by Karl Jacoby to case studies across Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas
  • Examines how conservation efforts dispossess local populations, particularly poor Indigenous peoples and settlers
  • Features an afterword by Karl Jacoby

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History (PSWEH)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Moral Ecologies: Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance

    • Carl J. Griffin, Roy Jones, Iain J. M. Robertson
    Pages 1-34

  4. Conservation as Occupation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Crimes against Cultures: How Local Practices of Regulation Shape Archaeological Landscapes in Trowulan, East Java

      • Tod Jones, Adrian Perkasa
      Pages 129-158

    3. Of Necessary Work: The Longue Durée of the Moral Ecology of the Hebridean Gàidhealtachd

      • Iain J. M. Robertson, Mary MacLeod Rivett
      Pages 159-187

    4. Demographic Fluidity and Moral Ecology: Queenstown (Tasmania) and a Lesson in Precarious Process

      • Pete Hay
      Pages 189-215

    5. ‘Fearless, Free and Bold’: The Moral Ecology of Kelly Country

      • Graham Seal
      Pages 217-234

    6. Squatting as Moral Ecology: Encroachment and ‘Abuse’ in the New Forest, England

      • Carl J. Griffin
      Pages 235-263

    7. A “Moral Ecology” of Afrikaner Settlement in German East Africa, 1902–1914

      • Thaddeus Sunseri
      Pages 265-288

    8. Afterword: On Moral Ecologies and Archival Absences

      • Karl Jacoby
      Pages 289-297

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 299-306
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About this book

This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation schemes and policies define once customary and vernacular forms of managing common resources as banditry—and how the ‘bandits’ fight back. Drawing inspiration from Karl Jacoby’s seminal Crimes against Nature, this book takes Jacoby’s moral ecology and extends the concept beyond the founding of American national parks. From eighteenth-century Europe, through settler colonialism in Africa, Australia and the Americas, to postcolonial Asia and Australia, Moral Ecologies takes a global stance and a deep temporal perspective, examining how the language and practices of conservation often dispossess Indigenous peoples and settlers, and how those groups resist in everyday ways. Drawing together archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers and historians, this is a methodologically diverse and conceptually innovative study that will appeal to anyone interested in the politics of conservation, protest and environmental history.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

    Carl J. Griffin

  • Curtin University, Perth, Australia

    Roy Jones

  • University of the Highlands and Islands, Dornoch, UK

    Iain J. M. Robertson

About the editors

Carl J. Griffin is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex, UK.


Roy Jones is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Curtin University, Perth, Australia.


Iain J. M. Robertson is Reader in History at the University of the Highlands and Islands, UK.



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