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Interviews | November 3, 2009

Sheila A.: IMG On Storytelling: The Powells.com Interview with Donald Miller

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donaldmillerDonald Miller is a Christian writer, but the question that Miller asks with his latest memoir, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, is applicable to... Continue »
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    A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

    Donald Miller

Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)

by Paige West

Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century) Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

"Incisive, moving, and beautifully written, "Conservation Is Our Government Now" is an absolutely exemplary study and a completely absorbing narrative. It is quite simply one of the most sophisticated political ecology books I have read to date."--Neil Smith, author of "The Endgame of Globalization" ""Conservation Is Our Government Now" is a timely and significant contribution to contemporary critical scholarship on conservation. More than any other study of which I am aware, it provides an ethnographically rich, nuanced account of the encounter between conservation practitioners and a local community. It is an exemplar of the power of ethnographic writing to reveal other subjectivities and other ways of being."--J. Peter Brosius, coeditor of "Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management"

Synopsis:

""Conservation Is Our Government Now" is a timely and significant contribution to contemporary critical scholarship on conservation. More than any other study of which I am aware, it provides an ethnographically rich, nuanced account of the encounter between conservation practitioners and a local community. It is an exemplar of the power of ethnographic writing to reveal other subjectivities and other ways of being."--J. Peter Brosius, coeditor of "Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management"

Synopsis:

Presents an ethnographic examination of the social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. This book focuses on the area that was the site of a biodiversity conservation project. It demonstrates the capacity of ethnography to illuminate the relationship between trans-national processes and individual lives.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780822337492
Subtitle:
The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea
Author:
West, Paige
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Subject:
Psychology
Subject:
Ecology
Subject:
Development - Sustainable Development
Subject:
Public Policy - Economic Policy
Subject:
Papua New Guinea Economic conditions.
Subject:
Gimi (Papua New Guinean people) -
Series:
New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
Publication Date:
January 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
9.08x6.16x.84 in. 1.11 lbs.
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