| Description |
1 online resource (x, 321 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Contents |
Pressure points -- Living maps -- Interlude: Lost in the plantation : the dream of Yustinus Mahuze -- Skin and wetness -- The plastic cassowary -- Interlude: Metamorphosis : the dream of Yosefus Samkakai -- Sago encounters -- Oil palm counterpoint -- Interlude: The empty sago grove : the dream of Agustinus Gebze -- Time has come to stop -- Eaten by oil palm -- Interlude: Black waters of the Bian : the dream of Elena Basik-Basik |
| Summary |
"Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and prior human rights advocacy in the Indonesian-controlled region of West Papua, In the Shadow of the Palms explores how deforestation and monocrop oil palm expansion reconfigure the multispecies lifeworld of Indigenous Marind communities through its effects on the landscape, time, personhood, and dreams. Working with and across species categories and hierarchies, the book highlights how the proliferation of industrial monocrops subverts the futures and relations of some lifeforms while opening new horizons of possibility for others. Sophie Chao situates these dynamics within West Papua's violent and volatile history of political colonization, ethnic domination, and capitalist incursion. By approaching cash crops as both drivers of destruction and subjects of human exploitation, the book makes a compelling argument for rethinking capitalist violence as a multispecies act. Taking oil palm as its central protagonist, it makes a timely contribution to our understanding of human-environment relations in an age of radical ecological change."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Palm oil industry -- Social aspects -- Indonesia -- Papua Barat
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Palm oil industry -- Environmental aspects -- Indonesia -- Papua Barat
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Palm oil industry -- Indonesia -- Papua Barat
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Plantation workers -- Indonesia -- Papua Barat -- Social conditions
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Sustainable development -- Indonesia -- Papua Barat
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Rural development -- Indonesia -- Papua Barat
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Deforestation -- Indonesia -- Papua Barat
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SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Sustainable development
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Rural development
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Palm oil industry -- Social aspects
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Palm oil industry
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Deforestation
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Indonesia -- Papua Barat
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
147802285X |
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9781478022855 |
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