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Alchemy in the Rain Forest: Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area (2015)

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In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using ethnographic, environmental, and historical data, Jacka presents a multilayered examination of the impacts large-scale commercial gold mining in the region has had on ecology and social relations. Despite the deadly interclan violence and widespread pollution brought on by mining, the uneven distribution of its financial benefits has led many Porgerans to call for further development. This desire for increased mining, Jacka points out, counters popular portrayals of indigenous people as innate conservationists who defend the environment from international neoliberal development. Jacka's examination of the ways Porgerans search for common ground between capitalist and indigenous ways of knowing and being points to the complexity and interconnectedness of land, indigenous knowledge, and the global economy in Porgera and beyond.

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Review José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez (2016) Review of "Alchemy in the Rain Forest: Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 360-360). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Petra Loučová
Winter, Christine
Bowman, Norah
Stead, Victoria
Gervais, Mathieu
Woodhouse, Keith M.
Concepts
Environmentalism
Science and politics
Ecology
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Environmental sciences
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
Places
Papua New Guinea
United States
Australia
Czechoslovakia
Netherlands
Sweden
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