Amity A Doolittle
Biographic Data
| ID | 86597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amity A Doolittle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amity A |
| FAMILY NAME | Doolittle |
| SIGNATURE | DOOLITTLE A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Spatial distribution and perceived drivers of provisioning service values across an East African montane forest landscape
Increasingly, resource managers and planners seek to manage forested landscapes for the value of the services they provide. This is especially true in the Mau Forest of Kenya, a montane area that harbors some of Kenya’s most important headwaters but has lost a quarter of its forest cover since 1999. While managing for the Mau Forest’s landscape services is a priority, it is critical to understand why and how people value these services differentl…
Laura W. R. Appell
Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia: Native Struggles Over Land Rights
In 1990, shortly after a Malaysian politician announced that the boundaries of Kinabalu Park, a primary tourist destination, were to be expanded to include the species-rich tropical forest known locally as Bukit Hempuen, most of the area was burned to the ground, allegedly by local people. What would motivate the people who had for generations hunted and gathered forest products there to act so destructively? In this volume, Amity Doolittle illum…
Native land tenure, conservation, and development in a pseudo-democracy: Sabah, Malaysia
This article explores the interacting politics of native customary law, conservation, and rural development in Sabah, Malaysia. Drawing on the specific details of native property rights in a rural community and state conservation and agricultural development initiatives, this article delves into the inherent contradictions between the logic of conservation, commercial land development, and native land tenure regimes. Native smallholders in Sabah …
In Search of the Rainforest
Powerful Persuasions: The Language of Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo), 1881-1996
In this article I examine the similarities between colonialism and postcolonialism in Sabah, Malaysia. I argue that the strategies of rule employed by the colonial and postcolonial states can be viewed as a sustained interaction in which the power of colonial discourses, institutions, and forms of rule still operate in postcolonial Sabah, particularly in terms of control over and access to natural resources. Drawing on archival and ethnographic d…
Colliding Discourses: Western Land Laws and Native Customary Rights in North Borneo, 1881-1918
A comparison of European tobacco plantations and native shifting cultivation in North Borneo between 1881 and 1928 illustrates the discursive and political strategies through which colonial administrators justified intervention into native land matters and articulated their vision of ‘appropriate’ land management. The discourse of rational law, scientific agriculture and commercialisation provided the tools of colonial power that pushed native pe…
Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives
Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives. Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes, and Alan Bicker, eds. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. vii + 356 pp., maps, plates, tables, index
Are They Making Fun of Us?” The Politics of Development in Sabah, Malaysia
This paper explores the ideological context of rural development in Sabah, Malaysia. Drawing on ethnographic data of state practices and discourse, and local reactions to state policies, I discuss events surrounding a rural development initiative. I conclude that development in Sabah serves as the primary point of entry for the federal government into village politics. Thus, if development does not necessarily raise the local standard of living, …
"From Village Land to "Native Reserve: Changes in Property Rights in Sabah, Malaysia, 1950-1996
Native land tenure, conservation, and development in a pseudo-democracy: Sabah, Malaysia
This article explores the interacting politics of native customary law, conservation, and rural development in Sabah, Malaysia. Drawing on the specific details of native property rights in a rural community and state conservation and agricultural development initiatives, this article delves into the inherent contradictions between the logic of conservation, commercial land development, and native land tenure regimes. Native smallholders in Sabah …
Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Powerful Persuasions: The Language of Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo), 1881-1996
In this article I examine the similarities between colonialism and postcolonialism in Sabah, Malaysia. I argue that the strategies of rule employed by the colonial and postcolonial states can be viewed as a sustained interaction in which the power of colonial discourses, institutions, and forms of rule still operate in postcolonial Sabah, particularly in terms of control over and access to natural resources. Drawing on archival and ethnographic d…
Colliding Discourses: Western Land Laws and Native Customary Rights in North Borneo, 1881-1918
A comparison of European tobacco plantations and native shifting cultivation in North Borneo between 1881 and 1928 illustrates the discursive and political strategies through which colonial administrators justified intervention into native land matters and articulated their vision of ‘appropriate’ land management. The discourse of rational law, scientific agriculture and commercialisation provided the tools of colonial power that pushed native pe…
"From Village Land to "Native Reserve: Changes in Property Rights in Sabah, Malaysia, 1950-1996
In Search of the Rainforest
Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives
Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives. Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes, and Alan Bicker, eds. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. vii + 356 pp., maps, plates, tables, index
Are They Making Fun of Us?” The Politics of Development in Sabah, Malaysia
This paper explores the ideological context of rural development in Sabah, Malaysia. Drawing on ethnographic data of state practices and discourse, and local reactions to state policies, I discuss events surrounding a rural development initiative. I conclude that development in Sabah serves as the primary point of entry for the federal government into village politics. Thus, if development does not necessarily raise the local standard of living, …
"From Village Land to "Native Reserve: Changes in Property Rights in Sabah, Malaysia, 1950-1996
Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives
Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives. Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes, and Alan Bicker, eds. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000. vii + 356 pp., maps, plates, tables, index
Colliding Discourses: Western Land Laws and Native Customary Rights in North Borneo, 1881-1918
A comparison of European tobacco plantations and native shifting cultivation in North Borneo between 1881 and 1928 illustrates the discursive and political strategies through which colonial administrators justified intervention into native land matters and articulated their vision of ‘appropriate’ land management. The discourse of rational law, scientific agriculture and commercialisation provided the tools of colonial power that pushed native pe…
Powerful Persuasions: The Language of Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo), 1881-1996
In this article I examine the similarities between colonialism and postcolonialism in Sabah, Malaysia. I argue that the strategies of rule employed by the colonial and postcolonial states can be viewed as a sustained interaction in which the power of colonial discourses, institutions, and forms of rule still operate in postcolonial Sabah, particularly in terms of control over and access to natural resources. Drawing on archival and ethnographic d…
In Search of the Rainforest
Native land tenure, conservation, and development in a pseudo-democracy: Sabah, Malaysia
This article explores the interacting politics of native customary law, conservation, and rural development in Sabah, Malaysia. Drawing on the specific details of native property rights in a rural community and state conservation and agricultural development initiatives, this article delves into the inherent contradictions between the logic of conservation, commercial land development, and native land tenure regimes. Native smallholders in Sabah …
Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia: Native Struggles Over Land Rights
In 1990, shortly after a Malaysian politician announced that the boundaries of Kinabalu Park, a primary tourist destination, were to be expanded to include the species-rich tropical forest known locally as Bukit Hempuen, most of the area was burned to the ground, allegedly by local people. What would motivate the people who had for generations hunted and gathered forest products there to act so destructively? In this volume, Amity Doolittle illum…
Beyond the Sacred Forest: Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Laura W. R. Appell
Spatial distribution and perceived drivers of provisioning service values across an East African montane forest landscape
Increasingly, resource managers and planners seek to manage forested landscapes for the value of the services they provide. This is especially true in the Mau Forest of Kenya, a montane area that harbors some of Kenya’s most important headwaters but has lost a quarter of its forest cover since 1999. While managing for the Mau Forest’s landscape services is a priority, it is critical to understand why and how people value these services differentl…
Geography (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (7 works) · Asian Studies and History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works)