Forest and labor in Madagascar : from colonial concession to global biosphere /

Forest and labor in Madagascar : from colonial concession to global biosphere /

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 for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sodikoff, Genese Marie, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Forest conservation > Madagascar.
Forest biodiversity conservation > Madagascar.
Forests and forestry > Economic aspects > Madagascar.
Rural poor > Madagascar.
Madagascar > Economic conditions.
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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