West, Paige (Author)
Columbia University Press
Physical Details: 216
Language: English
When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all uneven patterns of development and seeks a more robust understanding of the ideological work that capital requires for constant regeneration.
...MoreReview Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi (2017) Review of "Dispossession and the Environment: Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea". Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.
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