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  • Des montagnards aux minorités ethniques

    Quelle intégration nationale pour les habitants des hautes terres du Viêt Nam et du Cambodge ?

    Series series Focus
    Comment peut-on être vietnamien sans être việt ; être cambodgien sans être khmer ? C'est la question qui se pose aux Jaraï, Brou, Mnong et autres Stieng, populations autochtones des hauts plateaux, à la frontière entre les deux pays. Ces peuples, longtemps indépendants sur les hautes terres de la chaîne Anamitique, doivent aujourd'hui faire face à des mouvements migratoires sans précédent. Les ... Leer más

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  • Tropical Nature

    Colonial and Post-Colonial Conservation in Africa and Asia

    Series Libro 26 - Environment in History: International Perspectives
    Across Africa and South-East Asia, the impulse to protect nature often dovetails with the domination of local people. From mass displacement to severe restrictions on land use and daily acts of violence, conservation work risks reproducing Eurocentric modes of colonialism and worsening the effects of the climate crisis. In this insightful and wide-ranging study of the colonial history of ... Leer más

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  • Protéger et détruire - Gouverner la nature sous les tropiques (XXe-XXIe siècle)

    Series series Histoire
    Comment s'est construit, au fil du XXe siècle et jusqu'à nos jours, le gouvernement de " la " nature en Asie, en Afrique et au Moyen-Orient ? De la création des premières réserves de chasse dans les colonies africaines au nom de la protection de la faune aux modèles actuels de conservation communautaire privilégiés par les organisations internationales, cette ambitieuse recherche croisant histoire ... Leer más

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  • Quarterly Essay 9 Beautiful Lies

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    Series Libro 9 - Quarterly Essay
    In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold damage to our river system for the sake of white immigration. The lie that rushing to preserve ... Leer más

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  • Ethnic Relations in Malaysia: Conflict and Harmony

    With Malaysia in the throes of sweeping political change, academic turned political activist and presently, Senator from Selangor state to the Parliament, Dr Syed Husin Ali traces how ethnicity has been manipulated, since Independence, by Malaysian politicians for their own gain to the detriment of the masses. In articles spanning more than three decades, collected for the first time here, he ... Leer más

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  • A Blue New Deal

    Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean

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  • Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire

    Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World

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  • The Invention of Green Colonialism

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    The story begins with a dream – the dream of Africa. Virgin forests, majestic mountains surrounded by savannas, vast plains punctuated with the rhythms of animal life where lions, elephants and giraffes reign as lords of nature, far from civilization – all of us carry such images in our heads, imagining Africa as a timeless Eden untouched by the ravages of modernity.But this Africa has never ... Leer más

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    From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere

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