Forest and labor in Madagascar [[electronic resource] ] : from colonial concession to global biosphere / / Genese Marie Sodikoff
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Sodikoff Genese Marie <1966->
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| Titolo: |
Forest and labor in Madagascar [[electronic resource] ] : from colonial concession to global biosphere / / Genese Marie Sodikoff
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.75/1609691 |
| Soggetto topico: | Forest conservation - Madagascar |
| Forest biodiversity conservation - Madagascar | |
| Forests and forestry - Economic aspects - Madagascar | |
| Rural poor - Madagascar | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Madagascar Economic conditions |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Forest and labor in Madagascar |
| ISBN: | 1-282-13457-4 |
| 9786613807151 | |
| 0-253-00584-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452790103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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