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Historical barriers still inhibit comparative frameworks to map and challenge two of the most odious forms of discrimination―racism and casteism. Both justify themselves on a principle of biological descent; they enable stigma as if it were a natural fact, refusing to see it as deleterious social exclusion. Against Stigma carries fifteen essays that build upon the energies generated in scholarship as a result of the landmark 2001 World Conference ...
A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics of and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. With contributors based in anthropology, ecology, sociology, history and environmental and policy studies, Nature in the Global South features some of the most innovative and influential work being done in the ...