Chapter 1. Nature and Nation -- Chapter 2. Elusive Forests -- Chapter 3. Shifting Land Rights -- Chapter 4. Mining Matters -- Chapter 5. Indigenous Governance -- Chapter 6. Political Ecology at the Frontier
Summary
The questions that inspired this study are central to contemporary research within environmental anthropology, political ecology, and environmental history: how does the introduction of a modern, capitalist, resource regime affect the livelihood of Indigenous peoples? Can sustainable resource management be achieved in a situation of radical commodification of land and other aspects of nature? Focusing on conflicts relating to forest management, mining, and land rights, the author offers an account of present-day challenges for Indigenous people to accommodate aspirations for ethnic. -- Publisher's Description