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New Perspectives Issue Examines Contested Landscapes

13.09.2012

Around the world, fields and forests are increasingly dominated by the market, mediated by science, and subjected to new modes of transnational environmental governance. How can the resulting conflicts between the needs of local communities and the numerous external demands be resolved?

Our newest issue of RCC Perspectives, "Fields and Forests: Ethnographic Perspectives on Environmental Globalization," provides a comparative perspective on how such conflicts are playing out on the ground.

The volume brings together two typically separate domains of study in the environmental humanities and social sciences: fields and forests. Written by a diverse group of young scholars, the papers are the outcome of a workshop held at the biannual meeting of the German Anthropological Association in Vienna in Septmeber 2011.

Together the articles are testimony to the rich new scholarship in environmental anthropology.

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