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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779224503321

Autore

Sodikoff Genese Marie <1966->

Titolo

Forest and labor in Madagascar [[electronic resource] ] : from colonial concession to global biosphere / / Genese Marie Sodikoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-282-13457-4

9786613807151

0-253-00584-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Disciplina

333.75/1609691

Soggetti

Forest conservation - Madagascar

Forest biodiversity conservation - Madagascar

Forests and forestry - Economic aspects - Madagascar

Rural poor - Madagascar

Madagascar Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 1980's. 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...