Forest and Labor in Madagascar From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere

Name: Forest and Labor in Madagascar From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere
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ISBN: 9780253005779

ISBN-10: 0253005779

ISBN-13: 9780253005779

Edition: 2012

Authors: Genese Marie Sodikoff

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Protecting the unique plants and animals that live on Madagascar while fueling economic growth has been a priority for the Malagasy state, international donors, and conservation NGOs since the late 1980s. Forest and Labor in Madagascar shows how poor rural workers who must make a living from the forest balance their needs with the desire of the state to earn foreign revenue from ecotourism and forest-based enterprises. Genese Marie Sodikoff examines how the appreciation and protection of Madagascar's biodiversity depends on manual labor. She exposes the moral dilemmas workers face as both conservation representatives and peasant farmers by pointing to the hidden costs of ecological…

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List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Genese Marie Sodikoff is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University, Newark. She is author of Forest Labor in Madagascar: Nature and Colonialism in a Biodiversity Hotspot (IUP, 2012).



Acknowledgments


A Word on the Orthography and Pronunciation



Geographies of Borrowed Time



Overland on Foot, Aloft: An Anatomy of the Social Structure



Land and Languor: On What Makes Good Work



Toward a New Nature: Rank and Value in Conservation Bureaucracy



Contracting Space: Making Deals in a Global Hot Spot



How the Dead Matter: The Production of Heritage



Cooked Rice Wages: Internal Contradiction and Subjective Experience


Epilogue: Workers of the Vanishing World


Glossary of Malagasy Words


Notes


Bibliography


Index