Making Places and Making States

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ID20088100
AuthorsK D Morrison (0000-0002-8224-0846, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, corresponding author), Kathleen Morrison (0000-0002-4955-291X)
Year2007
Pages81-99
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueHistory of Natural Resources in Asia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230607538_5
OpenAlexW2503434512
ISBN9780230607538
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

The environmental dimensions of South Asian history have attracted a great deal of attention in the last decade or so, with the result that we now have a greatly improved understanding of, for example, the ecological as well as social and political consequences of European colonialism and the continuing impact of differential power relations on both people and local landscapes. Not only has this scholarship been useful for putting contemporary resource struggles and ecological crises in broader perspective, but also has added to our understandings of the relations between local environmental conditions and both local and supralocal politics and economics. Building on these insights, I focus here on the connections between the very local constitution (or making) of places, culturally meaningful locales, and the establishment and maintenance of larger political-economic orders, what we may call making states. At both local and larger scales, ideas about what natural resources are, as well as the specifics of their exploitation, create conditions of possibility for social and political orders. At the same time, local landscapes may be radically altered by the demands of states; over the long term, these complex and imbricated relationships create novel environmental conditions that continue to affect human livelihoods into the present

Colonialism · Constitution · Environmental ethics · Geography · Livelihood · Natural resource · Perspective (graphical) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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