• Course Overview
  • Week 1: Course overview and approaches
  • Week 2: Anthropocene
  • Week 3: Forests and statecraft
  • Week 4: Climate change
  • Week 5: Media and environment
  • Week 6: Globalization
  • Week 7: Capitalism and plantations
  • Week 8: Conservation
  • Week 9: Dispossession and protected areas
  • Week 10: More-than-human entanglements
  • Week 11: Space and place
  • Week 12: Waste
  • Week 13: Toxicity
  • Week 14: Presentations

ANTH481: Environmental Ethnographies: Asia

Week 9: Dispossession and protected areas

Reading and media

  • Menon, A. & Rai, N. D., (2019) “The mismeasure of nature: the political ecology of economic valuation of Tiger Reserves in India”, Journal of Political Ecology 26(1), 652-665. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/v26i1.23194
  • Phongchiewboon, A., Farrelly, T., Hytten, K. & Holland, J., (2020) “Political ecology, privation and sustainable livelihoods in northern Thailand’s national parks”, Journal of Political Ecology 27(1), 360-377. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/v27i1.23753
  • Hall, D., Hirsch, P. and Li, T.M., 2011. Introduction to powers of exclusion: land dilemmas in Southeast Asia. National University of Singapore Press and University of Hawaii Press.
  • Ivars, B., Gruel, C.R., Oo, T.N. and Venot, J.P., 2021. Slippery land, ever-shifting boundaries: claiming and accessing alluvial (is) lands in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar. Journal of Political Ecology, 28, pp.p-146.
  • Media: Film: Ghost of the mountains

Tuesday agenda

  • Media discussion
  • Lecture on dispossession

Thursday agenda

  • Article discussion
  • In-class peer review

Assignments due

Recommended

  • Recommended: Zenko and Uležić 2019; Ivars 2020; Doolittle 2005; Kaur 2008