About this issue
Around the world, fields and forests are increasingly dominated by the market, mediated by science, and subjected to new modes of transnational environmental governance. This volume of RCC Perspectives presents ethnographic insights into the impacts of such environmental globalization. As agriculture seeks new methods to provide for a growing population, and as forest conservation becomes increasingly contested, local and indigenous communities must balance their needs and desires with the demands of a variety of external agents, from academics and bureaucrats to governments and international agribusinesses.
How to cite: Münster, Ursula, Daniel Münster, and Stefan Dorondel (eds.), “Fields and Forests: Ethnographic Perspectives on Environmental Globalization”, RCC Perspectives 2012, no 5. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/5595.
Content
- Introduction by Daniel Münster, Ursula Münster, and Stefan Dorondel
The State and Transnational Environmental Governance
- Neoliberal Transformations of the Romanian Agrarian Landscape by Stefan Dorondel
- Farmers, Development, and the Temptation of Nitrogen: Controversies about Sustainable Farming in Nicaragua by Birgit Müller
- Inverted Commons: Africa’s Nature in the Global Imagination by Bram Büscher
Environmental Conflict and Resistance
- Human-Animal Conflicts in Kerala: Elephants and Ecological Modernity on the Agrarian Frontier in South India by Daniel Münster and Ursula Münster
- Local Effects of Global Forest Conservation Policy: On Zapotec Resistance against a Protected Natural Area by Niels Barmeyer
- Reclaiming the Seeds, Becoming “Peasants”: On-Farm Agrobiodiversity Conservation and the Making of Farmers’ Collective Identity by Elise Demeulenaere
Globalizing Environments and Indigenous Practices
- Towards a Political Ecology of Scale in High Mountains by Christoph Bergmann and Martin Gerwin
- Tending the Emperor’s Garden: Modes of Human-Nature Relations in the Cosmology of the Sateré-Mawé Indians of the Lower Amazon by Wolfgang Kapfhammer
- Jhum Cultivation versus New Land Use Policy: Agrarian Change and Transformation in Mizoram by Shahnaz Kimi Leblhüber and H. Vanlalhruaia