Moral Ecologies
Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance
Editors: Griffin, Carl, Jones, Roy, Robertson, Iain (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Moral Ecologies: Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance
Pages 1-34
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Politics of Conservation, Moral Ecology and Resistance by the Sonaha Indigenous Minorities of Nepal
Pages 37-58
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Global Ecologies and Local Moralities: Conservation and Contention on Western Australia’s Gascoyne Coast
Pages 59-82
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From Activists to Illegally Occupying Land: Aboriginal Resistance as Moral Ecology in Perth, Western Australia
Pages 83-97
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Ghosts in the Forest: The Moral Ecology of Environmental Governance Toward Poor Farmers in the Brazilian and US Atlantic Forests
Pages 99-125
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Moral Ecologies
- Book Subtitle
- Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance
- Editors
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- Carl Griffin
- Roy Jones
- Iain Robertson
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-06112-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-06112-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-06111-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 306
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
- Topics
