Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. MAPS AND FIGURES ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
5. NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS x
6. Introduction: Towards an Ethnography of Ecological Underprivilege 1
7. Part I: Anthropology, Ecopolitics and Discrimination
8. 1 Pitfalls of Synchronicity: A Case Study of the Caiçaras in the Atlantic Rainforest of South-eastern Brazil 19
9. 2 Nature as Contested Terrain: Conflicts Over Wilderness Protection and Local Livelihoods in Río San Juan, Nicaragua 33
10. 3 The Environment at the Periphery: Conflicting Discourses on the Forest in Tanimbar, Eastern Indonesia 51
11. Part II: Distributing Justice within Protected Landscapes
12. 4 Protest, Conflict and Litigation: Dissent or Libel in Resistance to a Conservancy in North-west Namibia 69
13. 5 Environmentalism in the Syrian Badia: The Assumptions of Degradation, Protection and Bedouin Misuse 87
14. 6 ‘Ecocide and Genocide’: Explorations of Environmental Justice in Lakota Sioux Country 101
15. 7 Promoting Consumption in the Rainforest: Global Conservation in Papua New Guinea 119
16. Part III: Writing Environmentalis
17. 8 ‘We still are Soviet People’: Youth Ecological Culture in the Republic of Tatarstan and the Legacy of the Soviet Union 139
18. 9 The Ecology of Markets in Central Siberia 155
19. 10 Contrasting Landscapes, Conflicting Ontologies: Assessing Environmental Conservation on Palawan Island (The Philippines) 171
20. 11 Ecologism as an Idiom in Amazonian Anthropology 189
21. Bibliography 205
22. Index 221