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1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
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ISBN:
0253003091
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0253005779
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0253005841
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9780253003096
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9780253005779
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9780253005847
Inhalt:
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 forest balance their needs with the desire of the state to earn foreign revenue from ecotourism and forest-based enterprises. Genese Marie Sodikoff examines how the appreciation and protection of Madagascar's biodiversity depend on manual labor. She exposes the moral dilemmas workers face as both co
Inhalt:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sodikoff, Genese Marie, 1966- Forest and labor in Madagascar Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012
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Englisch
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