Environmental Winds Making the Global in Southwest China

About this book

Environmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South. Instead, such formations have been constituted, transformed, and propelled through diverse, site-specific social interactions that complicate and defy divisions between 'global' and 'local.' Environmental Winds brings the reader into the lives of Chinese scientists, officials, villagers, and expatriate conservationists who were caught up in environmental trends over the past 25 years. Hathaway reveals how global environmentalism has been enacted and altered in China, often with unanticipated effects, such as the rise of indigenous rights, or the reconfiguration of human/animal relationships, fostering what rural villagers refer to as "the revenge of wild elephants."

Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter One: Environmental Winds
Chapter Two: Fleeting Intersections and Transnational Work
Chapter Three: The Art of Engagement
Chapter Four: Making an Indigenous Space
Chapter Five: On the Backs of Elephants

Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography

Customer Reviews

Biography

Michael J. Hathaway is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.