Conservation Is Our Government Now : The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea

保護是我們的政府現在對巴布亞新幾內亞保護和發展努力的歷史和社會影響的民族志研究。 Paige West利用七年的廣泛實地工作，專注於Crater Mountain野生動物管理區，這是1994至1999年間實施的生物多樣性保護項目的所在地。她描述了管理該計劃的人之間的互動 - 主要是非政府組織工作人員 - 住在火山口周圍森林裡的吉米人。

最後，每個群體的期望的不同性質導致兩者的失望。西部揭示了火山口野生動物管理區的每個方面 - 包括空間、地點、環境和社會的想法 ， 是通過改變配置創造的社會生產方式的想法，行動和物質關係不僅在巴布亞新幾內亞，而且在世界其他地方。使當代保護工作的自然、文化和發展的許多假設複雜化，保護是我們的政府現在展示了民族志的獨特能力，以闡明全球和地方之間，跨國過程和個人生活之間的關係。

A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project implemented between 1994 and 1999. She describes the interactions between those who ran the program-mostly ngo workers-and the Gimi people who live in the forests surrounding Crater Mountain.

West shows that throughout the project there was a profound disconnect between the goals of the two groups. The ngo workers thought that they would encourage conservation and cultivate development by teaching Gimi to value biodiversity as an economic resource. The villagers expected that in exchange for the land, labor, food, and friendship they offered the conservation workers, they would receive benefits, such as medicine and technology.

In the end, the divergent nature of each group's expectations led to disappointment for both.West reveals how every aspect of the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area-including ideas of space, place, environment, and society-was socially produced, created by changing configurations of ideas, actions, and material relations not only in Papua New Guinea but also in other locations around the world. Complicating many of the assumptions about nature, culture, and development underlying contemporary conservation efforts, Conservation Is Our Government Now demonstrates the unique capacity of ethnography to illuminate the relationship between the global and the local, between transnational processes and individual lives.

  Paige West  (Autor)

Publisher:Duke University Press Books 

ISBN:    978-0822337492 

原價   US 23.95   台幣價 NT$850