Global visions, local landscapes : a political ecology of conservation, conflict, and control in Northern Madagascar
"Lisa L. Gezon argues that local events continuously redefine global processes of land use and land degradation. She challenges the current analytical distinctions between separate "local" and "global" spaces, proposing instead that the global is one aspect of the local to the extent that people in any given locale must act within the parameters of policies, authorities, and material conditions that have sources outside of the reach of immediate local networks. Her ethnographic study of the rice farmers and cattle herders of Antankarana, in northern Madagascar, weaves together an analysis of remotely sensed images of land cover over time with ethnographies of the negotiations between human actors
Print Book, English, ©2006
AltaMira Press, Lanham, MD, ©2006