Moral Ecologies

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

3. Conservation as Dispossession

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35

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   2. Politics of Conservation, Moral Ecology and Resistance by the Sonaha Indigenous Minorities of Nepal

      • Sudeep Jana Thing

      Pages 37-58

   3. Global Ecologies and Local Moralities: Conservation and Contention on Western Australia’s Gascoyne Coast

      • Roy Jones, Joseph Christensen, Tod Jones

      Pages 59-82

   4. From Activists to Illegally Occupying Land: Aboriginal Resistance as Moral Ecology in Perth, Western Australia

      • Shaphan Cox, Christina Birdsall-Jones

      Pages 83-97

   5. Ghosts in the Forest: The Moral Ecology of Environmental Governance Toward Poor Farmers in the Brazilian and US Atlantic Forests

      • Scott William Hoefle

      Pages 99-125

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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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.

• conservation
• indigenous resistance
• environmental history
• ethics
• banditry
• environmental policy
• colonial dispossession
• politics of conservation
• Karl Jacoby
• settler-state
• settler colonialism
• meshwork
• squatting
• Afrikaner immigration
• enclosure
• historical geography

• 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

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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