Description: China's Camel Country by Thomas White, K. Sivaramakrishnan How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasureChina today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the countrys 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 Chinas western borderlands. However, this book shows how such policies have been contested and negotiated on the ground, in the context of the states intensifying nation-building project. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Alasha, in the far west of Chinas 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. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Thomas White is lecturer in China and sustainable development at Kings College London. Promotional How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure Details ISBN0295752424 Author K. Sivaramakrishnan Publisher University of Washington Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780295752426 Format Hardcover Imprint University of Washington Press Subtitle Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier Place of Publication Seattle Country of Publication United States Illustrations 1 Tables, black and white; 2 Maps; 11 Illustrations, black and white Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 264 ISBN-10 0295752424 DEWEY 636.29509517 Alternative 9780295752433 UK Release Date 2024-09-16 Publication Date 2024-08-27 US Release Date 2024-08-27 Series Chinas Camel Country We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161776579;
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