Moral Ecologies

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.

• 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 Durée of 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.- 10. Squatting as Moral Ecology: the Politics of Dwelling in the New Forest, England.- 11. A ‘Moral Ecology’ of Afrikaner Settlement in German East Africa, 1902–1914.- 12. Afterword: On Moral Ecologies and Archival Absences.