Wild Profusion
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A01=Celia Lowe
Activism
Author_Celia Lowe
Biodiversity
Biologist
Biology
Biomedicine
Bruno Latour
Bugis
Bureaucrat
Calculation
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Conservation biology
Coral reef
Counter-mapping
Cyanide fishing
Disenchantment
Dukun
Ecology
Ecotourism
Endemism
Environmental justice
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Ethnobiology
Ethnoscience
Fishing
Fishing vessel
French Colonial
Governmentality
Guano
Hinduism
Honest broker
Horsepower
Idea of Progress
Iko Iko
Inbreeding
Indonesia
Indonesians
International Crisis Group
International Organization
Keystone species
Komodo National Park
Live fish trade
Macaque
Marine biology
Modernity
Natural resource
Nomen dubium
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Poverty
Primitivism
Reason
Richard Grove
Romanticism
Sama-Bajau peoples
Science
Scientist
Sea cucumber
Seaweed
Sense of Place
Spatial planning
Subaltern (postcolonialism)
Suharto
Sulawesi
Superiority (short story)
Tarsier
Technology
The Malay Archipelago
The Other Hand
Thought
Toponymy
Tourism
Traditional knowledge
Whaling
Product details
- ISBN 9780691124629
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2006
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Wild Profusion tells the fascinating story of biodiversity conservation in Indonesia in the decade culminating in the great fires of 1997-98--a time when the country's environment became a point of concern for social and environmental activists, scientists, and the many fishermen and farmers nationwide who suffered from degraded environments and faced accusations that they were destroying nature. Celia Lowe argues that biodiversity, in 1990s Indonesia, implied a particular convergence of nature, nation, science, and identity that made Indonesians' mapping of the concept distinct within transnational practices of nature conservation at the time. Lowe recounts the efforts of Indonesian biologists to document the species of the Togean Islands, to "develop" Togean people, and to turn this archipelago off the coast of Sulawesi into a national park. Indonesian scientists aspired to a conservation biology that was both internationally recognizable and politically effective in the Indonesian context. Simultaneously, Lowe describes the experiences of Togean Sama people who had their own understandings of nature and nation.
To place Sama and scientist into the same conceptual frame, Lowe studies Sama ideas in the context of transnational thought rather than local knowledge. In tracking the practice of conservation biology in a postcolonial setting, Wild Profusion explores what in nature can count as important and for whom.
Celia Lowe is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.
