“In this compelling book Maron E. Greenleaf disentangles the overwhelmingly complex socio-ecological, political-economic, and interspecies relationships that have resulted in the climate crisis and also must be understood and transformed to combat the crisis. She does this through a brilliant analysis of ‘green capitalism’ and its history, transformative power, failings, and afterlives.” - Paige West, Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University “Maron E. Greenleaf’s key insight that making forest carbon entails a remaking of socio-environmental relations-a complex and open-ended process that presents challenges as well as opportunities-allows her to retheorize the making of value through novel relations, reworkings, and speculations about what’s to come in rural Amazonia. <i>Forest Lost</i> makes a signal contribution to the study of the political ecology of the region while offering explanatory frames that will help illuminate the global proliferation of carbon markets with the care and attention that ethnographic immersion allows.” - Jeremy M. Campbell, author of (Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon)

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.
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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 and how forest carbon’s commodification in the Amazon turned it into a source of redistributable public environmental wealth.
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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
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781478031086
Publisert
2024-11-22
Utgiver
Duke University Press
Vekt
499 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

Biografisk notat

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