Rainforest Warriors Human Rights on Trial

Name: Rainforest Warriors Human Rights on Trial
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ISBN: 9780812221374

ISBN-10: 0812221370

ISBN-13: 9780812221374

Edition: 2011

Authors: Richard Price

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Rainforest Warriorsis a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life—part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe.The Republic of Suriname, in northeastern South America, contains the highest proportion of rainforest within its national territory, and the most forest per person, of any country in the world. During the 1990s, its government began awarding extensive logging and mining concessions to multinational companies from China, Indonesia, Canada, and elsewhere. Saramaka Maroons,…

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 1/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Africans Discover America


Land, Spirits, Power


Earth, Water, Sky


The Dam at Afobaka


Rockets at Kourou


Sovereignty and Territory


The Aloeboetoe Incursion


The Moiwana Massacre


Trees


Resistance Redux


Initial Protests


The Depredations Continue


Judgment Day


Pre-Hearing Pleadings


The Hearing


The Judgment


American Dreams


Developments on the Ground


Broader Implications


Postface


Notes


References Cited


Illustration Credits


Acknowledgments