Mountains of Blame
Will Smith
Broschiertes Buch

Mountains of Blame

Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands

Herausgeber: Sivaramakrishnan, K.
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"This thoughtful ethnography provides a detailed account of a forest community on the Philippine island of Palawan grappling with the material and conceptual implications of a changing climate, including residents' sense of self-blame for environmental events. Swidden agriculture has long been considered the primary cause of deforestation throughout Southeast Asia. Following this logic, government authorities excluded the Indigenous people of Palawan from their ancestral lands after World War II and forced them to abandon traditional modes of land use. After adopting ostensibly modern and ecol...