Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:41:38 -0600
Subject: Re: Fwd: re environmental degradation


Here's a few more refs for the colonialism/environmental relations thread.
Add most things by Wolfgang Sachs (The Development Dictionary: A Guide to
Knowledge as Power; Global Ecology: A New Arena of Political Conflict) to
this list.

Ken

Arnold, David, and Ramachandra Guha, eds. 1995. Nature, culture,
imperialism : essays on the environmental history of South Asia. Delhi:
Oxford University Press.
	
Crosby, Alfred W. 1988. Ecological Imperialism:  The Overseas Migration  of
Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon. In The Ends of the Earth:
Perspectives on Modern Environmental History. ed Donald Worster, 103-17.
Cambridge: Cdambridge University Press.

Faber, Daniel J. 1993. Environment under fire : imperialism and the
ecological crisis in Central America. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Gadgil, Madhav, and Guha Ramachandra. 1992. This Fissured Land: An
Ecological History of India. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Grove, Richard. 1995. Green imperialism : colonial expansion, tropical
island Edens and the origins of environmentalism, 1600-1860. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Grove, Richard H. 1992. Origins of Western Environmentalism.
Scientific-American 267, no. 1: 42-47.

Guha, Ramachandra. 1989. The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant
Resistance in the Himalaya. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Guha, Ramachandra, and Madhav Gadgil. 1989. State forestry and social
conflict in British India. Past and Present, no. 123: 141-77.

Harrison, Mark. 1996. Green Imperialism:  Colonial Expansion, Tropical
Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860. British
Journal for the History of Science 29, no. 102: 369-72.

Hoppe, Kirk A. 1997. Lords of the fly:  Colonial visions and revisions of
African   
sleeping-sickness environments on Ugandan Lake Victoria, 1906-61.
Africa:Journal-of-the-International-African-Institute 67, no. 1: 86-105.

Jewitt, Sarah. 1995. Europe's 'Other'?  Forest policy annd practices in
colonial and postcolonial India. Environment and Planning D: Society and
Space 13: 67-90.

MacKenzie, John M. 1989. The empire of nature : hunting, conservation and
British Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

MacKenzie, John M. 1997. Empires of nature and the nature of empires :
imperialism, Scotland and the environment : the Callander lectures,
delivered in the University of Aberdeen, 2-7 November 1995. East Linton:
Tuckwell Press.

Mackenzie, John M. 1986. Imperialism and popular culture. Manchester, UK:
Manchester University.

MacKenzie, John M. 1990. Imperialism and the Natural World. Manchester:
Manchester Universtity Press.

Poffenberger, Mark. 1995. The resurgence of Community Forest Management  in
the Jungle Mahals of West Bengal. In Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays
on the Environmental History of South Asia. eds David Arnold, and
Ramachandra Guha, 336-69. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
good chapt.

Pouchepadass, Jacques. 1995. British Attitudes Towards Shifting Cultivation
in Clonial South India:  A Case Study of South Canara District 1800-1920.
In Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of
South Asia. eds David Arnold, and Ramachandra Guha, 123-51. Delhi: Oxford
University Press.

Richardson, Bonham C. 1996. Detrimental determinists:  Applied
environmentalism as bureaucratic self-interest in the fin-de-siecle British
Caribbean.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers 86, no. 2:
213-34.

Roche, Michael. 1997. 'The land we have we must hold': Soil erosion and
soil conservation in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century New Zealand.
Journal of Historical Geography 23, no. 4: 447-58.

Taussig, Michael. 1992. Culture of Terror - Space of Death: Roger
Casement's Report and the Explanation of Torture. In Colonialism and
Culture. ed Nicholas Dirks, 135-73. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press .
good for an understanding of the imagination of 'nature' through colonial
structures, the role of terror in the manipulation of labour and resource
exploitation.

Tucker, Richard P. 1988. The Depletion of India's Forests under British
Imperialism: Planters, Foresters, and Peasants in Assam  and Kerala . In
The Ends of the Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History. ed
Donald Worster, 118-40. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Weiskel, Timothy C. 1988. Toward an Archaeology of Colonialism: Elements in
the Ecological Transformation of hte Ivory Coast y. In The Ends of the
Earth: Perspectives on Modern Environmental History. ed Donald Worster,
141-71. Cambridge: Cdambridge University Press.

At 09:07 PM 1/19/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Thanks, Gretchen 
>for the very full description of  the Leach and Mearns, eds.  _The Lie of
>the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment
>indeed as a person from Clayoquot Sound....where a lot of sound and fury
>has arisen over this issue it is with some interest that i follow the
>semiotics of the discourse about lands and territories....from a FN
>perspective the "degradation" of course has many dimensions...and the
>colonization also...
>so one of the ways I like to read against the grain in this area is work on
>"sustainability" which is the post colonial jargon for colonization of the
>tek strategies of FN to "reverse the 'degradation' of colonialism".....
>some of those text are:
>Feminist Perspectives on Sustainable Development Wendy Harcourt (Ed);
>Liberation Ecologies: environment, development, social movements. Peeet &
>Watts (eds) and eco-impace and the greening of postmodernity. Jagtenberg U
>Mckie (Eds.)
>My favorite "degradation" piece is written by Michael Howard the economic
>anthropologist from Simon Fraser University in his book on Mining and
>Indigenous peoples....about the removal of guano (bird droppings rich in
>phosphates) deposits from some of the south pacific islands during the
>green revolution ...where the islands of guano were in fact shipped out
>right from under the inhabitants to be made into fertilizer...and the
>Fosters was imported from Australia by the ship load....to keep the folks
>"chilled".....of course the level of family violence skyrocketed....as the
>island got smaller .....perhaps someone could revisit that "degradation"
>and do a "received wisdom" book with Leach & Mearns logic too...
>Mar. 
>
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Ken I. MacDonald
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University of Iowa
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