Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. INTRODUCTION. The Cultural Politics of Race and Nature: Terrains of Power and Practice 1
5. PART ONE. Calculating Improvements
6. 1. After the Great White Error . . . the Great Black Mirage 73
7. 2. Simians, Savages, Skulls, and Sex Science and Colonial Militarism in Nineteenth-Century South Africa 99
8. 3. ‘‘The More You Kill the More You Will Live’’ The Maya, ‘‘Race,’’ and Biopolitical Hopes for Peace in Guatemala 122
9. PART TWO. Landscapes of Purity and Pollution
10. 4. ‘‘There is a Land where Everything is Pure’’ Linguistic Nationalism and Identity Politics in Germany 149
11. 5. ‘‘On the Raggedy Edge of Risk’’ Articulations of Race and Nature After Biology 175
12. 6. Beyond Ecoliberal ‘‘Common Futures’’ Environmental Justice, Toxic Touring, and a Transcommunal Politics of Place 204
13. PART THREE. Communities of Blood and Belonging
14. 7. Inventing the Heterozygote Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis 235
15. 8. For the Love of a Good Dog Webs of Action in the World of Dog Genetics 254
16. 9. Intimate Publics Race, Property, and Personhood 296
17. PART FOUR. The Politics of Representation
18. 10. Men in Paradise Sex Tourism and the Political Economy of Masculinity 323
19. 11. Pulp Fictions of Indigenism 356
20. 12. Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the Limits of Recognition in Indonesia’s Forest Zone 380
21. Bibliography 407
22. Contributors 461
23. Index 465