Crafting the public sphere in the forests of West Bengal: democracy, development, and political action

被引:38
作者
Sivaramakrishnan, K [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Washington, Dept Anthropol, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
关键词
bureaucracy; democracy; development; ethnicity; forest conservation; identity politics; science and technology; the state; India;
D O I
10.1525/ae.2000.27.2.431
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
Participatory conservation and development initiatives have proliferated all over the world as the 1990s became the decade for restructuring states and celebrating civil society. Examining one such major effort, called joint forest management, I propose several new directions for the anthropology of modernity, development, and environment. I scrutinize processes of local state-making in the forests of southern West Bengal, India, to reveal key tensions between development and democratization through an ethnography of political action.
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页码:431 / 461
页数:31
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