Mountains of Blame : Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands

Smith, Will; Sivaramakrishnan, K. (FRW)

ISBN 10: 029574815X / ISBN 13: 9780295748153

Edité par University of Washington Press, 2020

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• Titre: Mountains of Blame : Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands
• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 029574815X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780295748153
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Explores the unsettling phenomenon of indigenous self-blame for climate change Swidden agriculture has long been considered the primary cause of deforestation throughout Southeast Asia, and the Philippine government has used this belief to exclude the indigenous people of Palawan Island from their ancestral lands and to force them to abandon traditional modes of land use. After adopting ostensibly modern and ecologically sustainable livelihoods, the Pala’wan people have experienced drought and uncertain weather patterns, which they have blamed on their own failure to observe traditional social norms that are believed to regulate climate—norms that, like swidden agriculture, have been outlawed by the state. In this ethnographic case study, Will Smith asks how those who have contributed least to greenhouse gas emissions and environmental degradation have come to position themselves as culpable for the devastating impacts of climate change, examining their statements about changing weather, processes of dispossession, and experiences of climate-driven hunger. By engaging both forest policy and local realities, he suggests that reckoning with these complexities requires reevaluating and questioning key wisdoms in global climate-change policy: What is indigenous knowledge, and who should it serve? Who is to blame for the vulnerability of the rural poor? What, and who, belongs in tropical forests?

À propos des auteurs

Will Smith is an associate research fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisationat at Deakin University. He received his PhD in anthropology and geography from University of Queensland in 2015. This is his first book.

Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.