China's Camel Country
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China's Camel Country

Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier

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China's Camel Country

Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier

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How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted pastoralists and their animals, blamed for causing desertification. State environmentalism—in the form of grazing bans, enclosure, and resettlement—has transformed the lives of many ethnic minority herders in China’s western borderlands. However, this book shows how such policies have been contested and negotiated on the ground, in the context of the state’s intensifying nation-building project. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Alasha, in the far west of China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Thomas White describes how ethnic Mongols have foregrounded the local breed of Bactrian camel, mobilizing ideas of heritage and resource conservation to defend pastoralism. In exploring how the greening of the Chinese state affects the entangled lives of humans and animals at the margins of the nation-state, this study is both a political biography of the Bactrian camel and an innovative work of political ecology addressing critical questions of rural livelihoods, conservation, and state power.

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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9780295752440
Edition
0
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Antropología cultural y social

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Note on Transliteration
  11. Introduction Reimagining Pastoralism at China’s Margins
  12. 1. Situating Pastoralist Heritage
  13. 2. The Politics of Livestock Rituals
  14. 3. The Rural Sociality of Camel Husbandry in Urbanizing Alasha
  15. 4. Techno-Pastoralism and Memories of Animal Labor
  16. 5. Commodifying Camels on an Extractive Frontier
  17. 6. Dairy Frontiers
  18. Conclusion
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. Index
  22. Series List