Awards

• Winner of EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize 2017 (United States)

Overview

Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth century-from French colonialism to the recent transition to market-oriented economics-as the country united, prospered, and transformed people and landscapes. Forest policy has rarely been about ecology or conservation for nature's sake, but about managing citizens and society, a process Pamela McElwee terms ""environmental rule."" Untangling and understanding these practices and networks of rule illuminates not just thorny issues of environmental change, but also the birth of Vietnam itself.

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"""McElwee’s description of environmental rule in Vietnam helps readers look beyond simplistic explanations of environmental policy to see the more complex processes at play in defining and intervening in various social and environmental issues... McElwee’s book will be of great interest to those who focus on environmental policy and the interplay of social-ecological systems. Recommended."" * Choice * ""Forests Are Gold offers a timely analysis that will appeal to scholars far beyond Southeast Asia.... It should inspire upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars to rethink assumptions about the virtues of environmentalism by showing us how such reasoning has never been just about trees.—"" -- Allison Truitt * American Anthropologist * ""A wonderful and timely addition to the literature on political ecology.... In presenting the dilemmas and projects of forest conservation over the last century, she convincingly demonstrates that if forests can and do act beyond humans, the generativity of these activities is lost on those who seek to more efficiently administer them."" -- Nikhil Anand * American Ethnologist (AE) *"

"""McElwee’s description of environmental rule in Vietnam helps readers look beyond simplistic explanations of environmental policy to see the more complex processes at play in defining and intervening in various social and environmental issues... McElwee’s book will be of great interest to those who focus on environmental policy and the interplay of social-ecological systems. Recommended."" ""Forests Are Gold offers a timely analysis that will appeal to scholars far beyond Southeast Asia.... It should inspire upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars to rethink assumptions about the virtues of environmentalism by showing us how such reasoning has never been just about trees.—"" -- Allison Truitt * American Anthropologist * ""A wonderful and timely addition to the literature on political ecology.... In presenting the dilemmas and projects of forest conservation over the last century, she convincingly demonstrates that if forests can and do act beyond humans, the generativity of these activities is lost on those who seek to more efficiently administer them."" -- Nikhil Anand * American Ethnologist (AE) *"

Forests Are Gold offers a timely analysis that will appeal to scholars far beyond Southeast Asia. . . . It should inspire upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars to rethink assumptions about the virtues of environmentalism by showing us how such reasoning has never been just about trees.- -- Allison Truitt * American Anthropologist * McElwee's description of environmental rule in Vietnam helps readers look beyond simplistic explanations of environmental policy to see the more complex processes at play in defining and intervening in various social and environmental issues. . . McElwee's book will be of great interest to those who focus on environmental policy and the interplay of social-ecological systems. Recommended. * Choice *

Author Information

Pamela D. McElwee is associate professor of human ecology at Rutgers University. She is the coeditor of Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America.

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