Overview
- 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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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.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conservation as Dispossession
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Front Matter
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Conservation as Occupation
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
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.
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Moral Ecologies
Book Subtitle: Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance
Editors: Carl J. Griffin, Roy Jones, Iain J. M. Robertson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06112-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06111-1Published: 21 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-06112-8Published: 01 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2730-9746
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9754
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 306
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Science, Social History, Cultural History, Environmental Philosophy, Historical Geography