This book offers the first systematic study of how elite conservation schemes and policies define once customary and vernacular forms of managing common resources as banditry-and how the 'bandits' fight back. Drawing inspiration from Karl Jacoby's seminal Crimes against Nature, this book takes Jacoby's moral ecology and extends the concept beyond the founding of American national parks. From eighteenth-century Europe, through settler colonialism in Africa, Australia and the Americas, to postcolonial Asia and Australia, Moral Ecologies takes a global stance and a deep temporal perspective, examining how the language and practices of conservation often dispossess Indigenous peoples and settlers, and how those groups resist in everyday ways. Drawing together archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers and historians, this is a methodologically diverse and conceptually innovative study that will appeal to anyone interested in the politics of conservation, protest and environmental history.

Autorentext
Carl J. Griffin is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex, UK.
Roy Jones is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
Iain J. M. Robertson is Reader in History at the University of the Highlands and Islands, UK.

Inhalt

1. Moral Ecologies: Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance
   I. Conservation as Dispossession
2. Politics of Conservation, Moral Ecology and Resistance by the Sonaha Indigenous Minorities of Nepal
   3. Global Ecologies and Local Moralities: Conservation and Contention on Western Australia's Gascoyne Coast
   4. From Activists to Illegally Occupying Land: Aboriginal Resistance as Moral Ecology in Perth, Western Australia
   5. Ghosts in the Forest: The Moral Ecology of Environmental Governance toward Poor Farmers in the Brazilian and US Atlantic Forests
   II. Conservation as Occupation
   6. Crimes against Cultures: How Local Practices of Regulation Shape Archaeological Landscapes in Trowulan, East Java
   7. Of Necessary Work: The Longue Duréeof the Moral Ecology of the Hebridean Gàidhealtachd
   8. Demographic Fluidity and Moral Ecology: Queenstown (Tasmania) and a Lesson in Precarious Process 
   9. 'Fearless, Free and Bold': The Moral Ecology of Kelly Country
3. Squatting as Moral Ecology: the Politics of Dwelling in the New Forest, England
   11. A 'Moral Ecology' of Afrikaner Settlement in German East Africa, 19021914
4. Afterword: On Moral Ecologies and Archival Absences