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ECOLOGICAL NATIONALISMS Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia
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Edited by Gunnel Cederlof and K. Sivaramakrishnan
University of Washington Press, $50 hardcover, March 2006The works presented in this collection take environmental scholarship in
South Asia into novel territory by exploring how questions of national
identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh,
Nepal, Pakistan, and India. The essays provide insight into the
motivations of colonial and national governments in controlling or
managing nature, and bring into fresh perspective the different kinds of
regional political conflicts that invoke nationalist sentiment through
claims on nature. This volume also offers new ways to think about
nationalism and, more specifically, nationalism in South Asia from the
vantage point of interdisciplinary environmental studies. The topics
covered include forests, agriculture, marine fisheries, parks, sacred
landscapes, property rights, trade, and economic development.
"Ecological Nationalisms" is a 376-page book with photos, maps, tables,
bibliography, and index. For more information, including the table of
contents and contributors, please visit our website at:
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/CEDECC.html
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