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China's Camel Country
Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
Taschenbuch von Thomas White
Sprache: Englisch

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How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure

China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country's arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted pastoralists and their animals, blamed for causing desertification. State environmentalism?in the form of grazing bans, enclosure, and resettlement?has transformed the lives of many ethnic minority herders in China's western borderlands.

However, this book shows how such policies have been contested and negotiated on the ground, in the context of the state's intensifying nation-building project. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Alasha, in the far west of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Thomas White describes how ethnic Mongols have foregrounded the local breed of Bactrian camel, mobilizing ideas of heritage and resource conservation to defend pastoralism.

In exploring how the greening of the Chinese state affects the entangled lives of humans and animals at the margins of the nation-state, this study is both a political biography of the Bactrian camel and an innovative work of political ecology addressing critical questions of rural livelihoods, conservation, and state power.
How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure

China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country's arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted pastoralists and their animals, blamed for causing desertification. State environmentalism?in the form of grazing bans, enclosure, and resettlement?has transformed the lives of many ethnic minority herders in China's western borderlands.

However, this book shows how such policies have been contested and negotiated on the ground, in the context of the state's intensifying nation-building project. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Alasha, in the far west of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Thomas White describes how ethnic Mongols have foregrounded the local breed of Bactrian camel, mobilizing ideas of heritage and resource conservation to defend pastoralism.

In exploring how the greening of the Chinese state affects the entangled lives of humans and animals at the margins of the nation-state, this study is both a political biography of the Bactrian camel and an innovative work of political ecology addressing critical questions of rural livelihoods, conservation, and state power.
Über den Autor
Thomas White is lecturer in China and sustainable development at King's College London. He earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2016. This is his first book.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780295752433
ISBN-10: 0295752432
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: White, Thomas
Redaktion: Sivaramakrishnan, K.
Hersteller: University of Washington Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Thomas White
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.08.2024
Gewicht: 0,434 kg
Artikel-ID: 127938216
Über den Autor
Thomas White is lecturer in China and sustainable development at King's College London. He earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2016. This is his first book.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780295752433
ISBN-10: 0295752432
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: White, Thomas
Redaktion: Sivaramakrishnan, K.
Hersteller: University of Washington Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Thomas White
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.08.2024
Gewicht: 0,434 kg
Artikel-ID: 127938216
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