3. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. General Introduction 1
5. Section 1. So, What Is Environmental Anthropology?
6. 1. The Concept and Method of Cultural Ecology 12
7. 2. Smallholders, Householders 18
8. 3. False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis 24
9. 4. Gender and Environment 34
10. 5. A View from a Point 41
11. 6. Ethics Primer for University Students Intending to Become Natural Resources Managers and Administrators 48
12. Section 2. What Does Population Have to Do with It?
13. 7. Ester Boserup’s Theory of Agrarian Change 64
14. 8. The Benefits of the Commons 68
15. 9. 7 Billion and Counting 75
16. 10. Rural Household Demographics, Livelihoods, and the Environment 79
17. 11. Carrying Capacity’s New Guise 91
18. 12. The Environment as Geopolitical Threat 102
19. Section 3. What Are Urban, Rural, and Suburban Environments?
20. 13. The Growth of World Urbanism 124
21. 14. Economic Growth and the Environment 140
22. 15. Bhopal 149
23. 16. The Lawn-Chemical Economy and Its Discontents 159
24. 17. Addictive Economies and Coal Dependency 170
25. 18. The Anti-Politics Machine 185
26. Section 4. How Does Globalization Affect Environment and Culture?
27. 19. How Do We Know We Have Global Environmental Problems? 202
28. 20. Bottled Water 214
29. 21. Indigenous Initiatives and Petroleum Politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon 222
30. 22. Land Tenure and REDD+ 229
31. 23. Friction 241
32. Section 5. How Do Identities Shape Ecological Experiences?
33. 24. Cultural Theory and Environmentalism 250
34. 25. Endangered Forests, Endangered People 254
35. 26. The Nature of Gender 274
36. 27. “But I Know It’s True” 286
37. 28. Bringing the Moral Economy Back in . . . to the Study of 21st-Century Transnational Peasant Movements 300
38. 29. How to Queer Ecology 310
39. Section 6. Can Biodiversity Be Conserved?
40. 30. Neoliberal Conservation 324
41. 31. The Power of Environmental Knowledge 332
42. 32. Radical Ecology and Conservation Science 344
43. 33. Stolen Apes 359
44. 34. Difference and Conflict in the Struggle over Natural Resources 362
45. Section 7. Is Green Consumerism the Answer?
46. 35. The Invisible Giant 373
47. 36. Treading Lightly? 380
48. 37. What Is Degrowth? 390
49. 38. Protecting the Environment the Natural Way 401
50. Section 8. Okay, Now What?
51. 39. Living Up to Our Words 416
52. 40. Social Responsibility and the Anthropological Citizen 423
53. 41. World Is Burning, Sky Is Falling, All Hands on Deck! 445
54. 42. A Wonderfully Incomplete Bibliography of Action-Oriented Anthropology and Applied Environmental Social Science 482
55. Contributors 509
56. Index 519