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China's Camel Country

- Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
Af: Thomas White Engelsk Paperback

China's Camel Country

- Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier
Af: Thomas White Engelsk Paperback
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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.

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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.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 264
ISBN-13: 9780295752433
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0295752432
Kategori: China
Udg. Dato: 27 aug 2024
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 151mm
Højde: 228mm
Forlag: University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato: 27 aug 2024
Forfatter(e): Thomas White
Forfatter(e) Thomas White

Kategori China

ISBN-13 9780295752433

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 264

Udgave

Længde 18mm

Bredde 151mm

Højde 228mm

Udg. Dato 27 aug 2024

Oplagsdato 27 aug 2024

Forlag University of Washington Press

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