Forest of Struggle

Forest of Struggle
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780824838065
ISBN-13 : 0824838068
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Forest of Struggle by : Eve Zucker

In a village community in the highlands of Cambodia’s Southwest, people struggle to rebuild their lives after nearly thirty years of war and genocide. Recovery is a tenuous process as villagers attempt to shape a future while contending with the terrible rupture of the Pol Pot era. Forest of Struggle tracks the fragile progress of restoring the bonds of community in O’Thmaa and its environs, the site of a Khmer Rouge base and battlefield for nearly three decades between 1970 and 1998. Anthropologist Eve Zucker’s ethnographic fieldwork (2001–2003, 2010) uncovers the experiences of the people of O’Thmaa in the early days of the revolution, when some villagers turned on each other with lethal results. She examines memories of violence and considers the means by which relatedness and moral order are re-established, comparing O’Thmaa with villages in a neighboring commune that suffered similar but not identical trauma. Zucker argues that those differing experiences shape present ways of healing and making the future. Events had a devastating effect on the social and moral order at the time and continue to impair the remaking of sociality and civil society today, impacting villagers’ responses to changes in recent years. More positively, Zucker persuasively illustrates how Cambodians employ indigenous means to reconcile their painful memories of loss and devastation. This point is noteworthy given current debates on recovery surrounding the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Forest of Struggle offers a compelling case study that is relevant to anyone interested in post-conflict recovery, social memory, the anthropology of morality and violence, and Cambodia studies.

Fight for the Forest

Fight for the Forest
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : UTEXAS:059173018682175
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Fight for the Forest by : Chico Mendes

In Fight for the Forest, Chico Mendes talks of his life's work in his last major interview.

Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes

Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9780292774544
ISBN-13 : 0292774540
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes by : Gomercindo Rodrigues

A close associate of Chico Mendes, Gomercindo Rodrigues witnessed the struggle between Brazil's rubber tappers and local ranchers—a struggle that led to the murder of Mendes. Rodrigues's memoir of his years with Mendes has never before been translated into English from the Portuguese. Now, Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes makes this important work available to new audiences, capturing the events and trends that shaped the lives of both men and the fragile system of public security and justice within which they lived and worked. In a rare primary account of the celebrated labor organizer, Rodrigues chronicles Mendes's innovative proposals as the Amazon faced wholesale deforestation. As a labor unionist and an environmentalist, Mendes believed that rain forests could be preserved without ruining the lives of workers, and that destroying forests to make way for cattle pastures threatened humanity in the long run. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes also brings to light the unexplained and uninvestigated events surrounding Mendes's murder. Although many historians have written about the plantation systems of nineteenth-century Brazil, few eyewitnesses have captured the rich rural history of the twentieth century with such an intricate knowledge of history and folklore as Rodrigues.

Borneo Log

Borneo Log
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 0295974168
ISBN-13 : 9780295974163
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Borneo Log by : William W. Bevis

There the rainforest is being cut rapidly, local corruption and greed siphon off most of the profit, native rights and land uses are being obliterated, and much of the fine timber is shipped to Japan to become plywood forms for concrete that are thrown away after two uses.

The Forest

The Forest
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Publisher : UP Press
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9789715426350
ISBN-13 : 9715426352
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis The Forest by : William J. Pomeroy

While writing a book on the Hukbalahap, a wartime anti-Japanese resistance movement in the Philippines, William "Bill" Pomeroy met and fell in love with Celia Mariano, one of its most active women members. The Forest tells the story of the two years--1950-1952--Bill and Celia spent in the mountains with the Huks.

War in the Woods

War in the Woods
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Publisher : Howells House
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 0929590082
ISBN-13 : 9780929590080
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis War in the Woods by : M. Laar

With the Soviet reoccupation after World War II, Estonians faced a choice of submitting to Communist puppets or trying to survive in the traditional refuge of their forests while waiting for help from the West which never came. Those who chose the second course, Estonia's "Forest Brothers", mounted an armed resistance which, for more than a decade, seriously challenged Soviet rule. This is their story, told for the first time by sources within Estonia. This account is drawn from interviews with Forest Brothers who survived and relatives of those who died, and from documents and photographs from Soviet KGB files. It reflects Estonian courage and humor, the faith and sacrifice of a people suppressed, and the indomitable determination of a free nation to regain independence.

In The Shadow Of The Banyan

In The Shadow Of The Banyan
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 9781849837613
ISBN-13 : 1849837619
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis In The Shadow Of The Banyan by : Vaddey Ratner

A stunning, powerful debut novel set against the backdrop of the Cambodian War, perfect for fans of Chris Cleave and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. Soon the family's world of carefully guarded royal privilege is swept up in the chaos of revolution and forced exodus. Over the next four years, as she endures the deaths of family members, starvation, and brutal forced labour, Raami clings to the only remaining vestige of childhood - the mythical legends and poems told to her by her father. In a climate of systematic violence where memory is sickness and justification for execution, Raami fights for her improbable survival. Displaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyanis testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience. 'In the Shadow of the Banyanis one of the most extraordinary and beautiful acts of storytelling I have ever encountered' Chris Cleave, author of The Other Hand 'Ratner is a fearless writer, and the novel explores important themes such as power, the relationship between love and guilt, and class. Most remarkably, it depicts the lives of characters forced to live in extreme circumstances, and investigates how that changes them. To read In the Shadow of the Banyan is to be left with a profound sense of being witness to a tragedy of history' Guardian 'This is an extraordinary debut … as beautiful as it is heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday

The Burning Forest

The Burning Forest
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Publisher : Juggernaut Books
Total Pages : 430
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ISBN-10 : 9789386228000
ISBN-13 : 9386228009
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis The Burning Forest by : Nandini Sundar

The Indian Government has repeatedly described Maoist guerrillas as 'the biggest security threat to the countryÕ and Bastar as their headquarters. This book chronicles how the armed conflict between the government and the Maoists has devastated the lives of some of India's poorest citizens.

Understories

Understories
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 414
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ISBN-10 : 0822338475
ISBN-13 : 9780822338475
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Understories by : Jake Kosek

A lively, engaging ethnography that demonstrates how a volatile politics of race, class, and nation animates the infamously violent struggles over forests in the U.S. Southwest.

In the Forests of the Night

In the Forests of the Night
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Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9780375897146
ISBN-13 : 0375897143
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis In the Forests of the Night by : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I was born to the name of Rachel Weatere in the year 1684, more than three hundred years ago. The one who changed me named me Risika, and Risika I became, though I never asked what it meant. I continue to call myself Risika, even though I was transformed into what I am against my will. By day, Risika sleeps in a shaded room in Concord, Massachusetts. By night, she hunts the streets of New York City. She is used to being alone. But now someone is following Risika. Someone has left her a black rose, the same sort of rose that sealed her fate three hundred years ago. Three hundred years ago Risika had a family -- a brother and a sister who loved her. Three hundred years ago she was human. Now she is a vampire, a powerful one. And her past has come back to torment her. This atmospheric, haunting tale marks the stunning debut of a promising fourteen-year-old novelist.