Fluid commodities : the social production of natural capital in the Belize Barrier Reef
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines the social production of a science for valuing ecosystems, and the way in which that science has been applied and transformed in the social and cultural context of coastal Belize. It draws on twelve months of ethnographic field research with communities in coastal Belize and with scientists, economists, policy makers, and computer programmers working in both the United States and their own Belizean field sites. At the core of the inquiry is the fraught relationship between the production of value and the imagination of loss in contemporary environmental conservation. This ethnography of environment and science builds from classically anthropological themes at the intersection of nature, value, and race and ethnicity to understand how conservation scientists in Belize labored to remake an increasingly threatened and unstable post-colonial nature in the image of a benevolent supply chain that renders ecosystem services to people.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Gallagher, Patrick M |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
| Primary advisor | Ferguson, James |
| Thesis advisor | Ferguson, James |
| Thesis advisor | West, Paige, 1969- |
| Thesis advisor | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
| Advisor | West, Paige, 1969- |
| Advisor | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Patrick M. Gallagher. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Patrick Michael Gallagher
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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