Week 3: Forests and statecraft

Reading and media

• Book: McElwee, Pamela D. 2016. Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam. [Introduction, ch1-2, ch4, Conclusion]
• Media: Podcast: Outside/In: It was the ladies who hugged the trees

Tuesday agenda

• ArcGIS StoryMap Workshop

Thursday agenda

• Book discussion

Assignments due

Recommended

• Recommended: Peluso, Nancy Lee, and Peter Vandergeest. 2001. “Genealogies of the Political Forest and Customary Rights in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.” The Journal of Asian Studies 60 (3): 761–812.
• Recommended: Dove, Michael R. 1996. “Rice-Eating Rubber and People-Eating Governments: Peasant versus State Critiques of Rubber Development in Colonial Borneo.” Ethnohistory 43 (1): 33.
• Recommended: Li, Tania Murray. 2010. “Indigeneity, Capitalism, and the Management of Dispossession.” Current Anthropology 51 (3): 385–414.
• Recommended: Peluso, N.L., 1995. Whose woods are these? Counter‐mapping forest territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Antipode, 27(4), pp.383-406.
• Recommended: Peluso, N.L. and Ribot, J., 2020. Postscript: A theory of access revisited. Society & Natural Resources, 33(2), pp.300-306.