Forest Lost

Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon

Maron E. Greenleaf (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3108-6 (ISBN)

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Forest Lost is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest commodities, forest carbon offsets do not involve resource extraction; instead, they require keeping carbon in place through forest protection. Maron E. Greenleaf explores forest carbon offsets to understand green capitalism—the use of capitalist logics and practices to mitigate environmental damage. She traces cultural, environmental, governmental, material, and multispecies relations involved in making forest carbon valuable as well as how forest carbon’s commodification in the Amazon turned it into a source of redistributable public environmental wealth. At the same time, Greenleaf shows how making forest carbon monetarily valuable created an unexpected set of uneven, contingent, and contested social and political relations. While forest carbon in the Amazon demonstrates that green capitalism can be socially inclusive, it also shows that green capitalism can reinforce the marginalization it purportedly seeks to combat. By outlining these complex relations and tensions, Greenleaf elucidates broader efforts to create a capitalism suited to the Anthropocene and those efforts’ alluring promises and vexing failures.

Maron E. Greenleaf is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College.

Abbreviations ix
Preface: Green Capitalism xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
1. Carbon Boom 33
Interlude I. Highway Landscapes 57
2. Producing the Forest 64
Interlude II. The Flood 83
3. Robin Hood in the Untenured Forest 86
Interlude III. The Rural Road, Part 1 111
4. Beneficiaries and Forest Citizenship 114
Interlude IV. The Rural Road, Part 2 128
5. The Urban Forest 131
Afterword. Carbon Bust 153
Notes 165
Bibliography 231
Index 271

Erscheinungsdatum	27.09.2024
Zusatzinfo	21 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-3108-5 / 1478031085
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3108-6 / 9781478031086
Zustand	Neuware