Table Of ContentThe Social Lives of Forests
the
social
lives
of
forests
Past, Present, and Future of
Woodland Resurgence
edited by susanna b. hecht,
kathleen d. morrison, and
christine padoch
The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London
Susanna B. Hecht is professor of urban planning at the University
of California, Los Angeles. Kathleen D. Morrison is professor of
anthropology and social sciences in the College at the University
of Chicago. Christine Padoch is director of livelihoods research
at the Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
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DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226024134.001.0001
“False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some
West African Environmental Narratives” (Fairhead and Leach) orig-
inally published in World Development 23, no. 6 (2005): 1023–36.
“Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post– Cold War New Mexico”
(Masco) is an edited version of chapter 7 from his book The Nuclear
Borderlands: The Manha(cid:2) an Project in Post– Cold War New Mexico
(Princeton University Press, 2008). Handbook of South American
Archaeology, chapter “Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Do-
mesticated Landscape” (Erickson) 2008, with kind permission from
Springer Science+Business Media B.V. This contribution was edited
for length. “Amazonia 1492: Pristine Forest or Cultural Parkland?”
(Heckenberger et al.) originally published in Science 301, no. 5640
(September 2003): 1710–14 (DOI: 0.1126/science.1086112).
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
The social lives of forests : past, present, and future of woodland
resurgence / edited by Susanna B. Hecht, Kathleen D. Morrison,
and Christine Padoch.
pages : illustrations ; cm
Papers of the conference held at the University of Chicago
May 30–31, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978- 0- 226- 32266- 7 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN
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pects—Congresses. I. Hecht, Susanna B., editor of compilation.
II. Morrison, Kathleen D., editor of compilation. III. Padoch,
Christine, editor of compilation.
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contents
List of Illustrations · ix Acknowledgments · xiii
1 From Fragmentation to Forest Resurgence: Paradigms, Representations,
and Practices · Susanna B. Hecht, Kathleen D. Morrison, and Christine
Padoch · 1
part i. conceptual frameworks
Rethinking Social Lives and Forest Transitions: History, Ideologies,
Institutions, and the Matrix · Susanna B. Hecht · 11
2 False Forest History, Complicit Social Analysis: Rethinking Some
West African Environmental Narratives · James Fairhead and Melissa
Leach · 14
3 Stories of Nature’s Hybridity in Europe: Implications for Forest
Conservation in the Global South · Roderick P. Neumann · 31
4 Adam Smith in the Forest · Fredrik Albri(cid:2) on Jonsson · 45
5 Jungles, Forests, and the Theatre of Wars: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency,
and the Political Forest in Southeast Asia · Nancy Lee Peluso and Peter
Vandergeest · 55
6 Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post–Cold War New Mexico ·
Joseph Masco · 70
7 Pan- Tropical Perspectives on Forest Resurgence · Alan Grainger · 84
8 The Social Lives of Forest Transitions and Successions: Theories of Forest
Resurgence · Susanna B. Hecht · 97
9 Paradigms Lost: Tropical Conservation under Late Capitalism · John
Vandermeer and Ive(cid:2) e Perfecto · 114
10 Eff ects of Human Activities on Successional Pathways: Case Studies
from Lowland Wet Forests of Northeastern Costa Rica · Robin L. Chazdon,
Braulio Vilchez Alvarado, Susan G. Letcher, Amanda Wendt, and U. Uzay
Sezen · 129
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part ii. historical ecologies
Human- Forest Relationships and the Erasure of History · Kathleen D.
Morrison · 143
11 Constructing Nature: Socio- Natural Histories of an Indian Forest ·
Kathleen D. Morrison and Mark T. Lyce(cid:2) · 148
12 Culturing the Rainforest: The Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak · Monica
Janowski, Huw Barton, and Samantha Jones · 161
13 Residual Eff ects of Agroforestry Activities at Dos Hombres, a Classic
Period Maya Site in Belize · David L. Lentz and Brian Lane · 173
14 Forest as Faunal Enclave: Endangerment, Ecology, and Exclusion
in India · Mahesh Rangarajan · 190
15 Amazonia: The Historical Ecology of a Domesticated Landscape · Clark L.
Erickson · 199
part iii. market dynamics
Market Dynamics and Regional Change · Nicholas K. Menzies · 217
16 The Fate of the Branded Forest: Science, Violence, and Seduction in the
World of Teak · Raymond L. Bryant · 220
17 Gendered Knowledge and the African Shea- Nut Tree · Judith Carney and
Marlène Elias · 231
18 Ancient Forest Tea: How Globalization Turned Backward Minorities into
Green Marketing Innovators · Nicholas K. Menzies · 239
19 The Production of Forests: Tree Cover Transitions in Northern Thailand,
Northern Laos, and Southern China · Jeff erson Fox · 249
20 From Swidden to Rubber: Transforming Landscape and Livelihoods in
Mountainous Northern Laos · Yayoi Fujita Lagerqvist · 260
part iv. institutions
Institutions: The Secret Lives of Forests · Susanna B. Hecht · 277
21 A Forest for My Kingdom? “Forest Rent” and the Politics of History in
Asante (Ghana) ·Sara Berry · 279
22 The Invisible Map: Community Tenure Rights · Deborah Barry and Ruth
Meinzen- Dick · 291
23 Re- Greening the Sahel: Linking Adaptation to Climate Change,
Poverty Reduction, and Sustainable Development in Drylands ·
Chris Reij · 303
Contents [vii]
part v. the urban matrix
Urban Ecologies · Christine Padoch · 313
24 Amazonia 1492: Pristine Forest or Cultural Parkland? · Michael J.
Heckenberger, Afukaka Kuikuro, Urissap’a Tabata Kuikuro, J. Christian Russell,
Morgan Schmidt, Carlos Fausto, and Bruna Franche(cid:2) o · 315
25 Urban Residence, Rural Employment, and the Future of Amazonian
Forests · Christine Padoch, Angela Steward, Miguel Pinedo- Vasquez, Louis
Putzel, and Medardo Miranda Ruiz · 322
26 From Fallow Timber to Urban Housing: Family Forestry and Tablilla
Production in Peru · Robin R. Sears and Miguel Pinedo- Vasquez · 336
27 Forest Resources, City Services: Globalization, Household Networks, and
Urbanization in the Amazon Estuary · Eduardo S. Brondizio, Andrea D.
Siqueira, and Nathan Vogt · 348
28 Chicago Wilderness: Integrating Biological and Social Diversity in the
Urban Garden · Peter Crane, Liam Heneghan, Francie Muraski- Stotz,
Melinda Prue(cid:2) - Jones, Laurel Ross, Alaka Wali, and Lynne Westphal · 362
Notes · 379 References · 389 Contributors · 469 Index · 475
illustrations
Tables
2.1 Area of humid forest in forest Guinea at diff erent times 23
3.1 Classifi cation of dehesas habitat under four EU classifi cation systems 39
7.1 Number of national forest surveys for ninety tropical countries by latest
survey date 89
7.2 Trend in the area of forest plantations in ninety tropical countries in
1980–2005 93
10.1 Remnant tree cover and vegetation characteristics in two 1- ha plots in an
eleven- year- old secondary forest 132
13.1 Tree inventory from Dos Hombres vegetation survey 180
13.2 Tree inventory from uninhabited area (control) 183
13.3 Species diversity in uninhabited forest and forest adjacent to Dos Hom-
bres 187
13.4 Number of economic tree species found in uninhabited forest area and
forest adjacent to Dos Hombres 188
13.5 Statistical analyses comparing the number of economic tree species found
in each of the two study areas 188
18.1 Tea prices in Yunnan Province, 2005–2008 245
20.1 Forest fragmentation 263
20.2 Rice production in Sing District 264
20.3 Shares of household inputs in agriculture 267
24.1 Radiocarbon dates from Nokugu (X6) and other sites in the Kuikuro study
area, southern PIX 318
25.1 Number of households with urban, rural, and rural/urban employment
from a sample of 207 urban households 331
25.2 Logging camp workers and their areas of origin in the Provincia Ucayali,
Región Loreto 332
26.1 Quantity of tablillas produced per month by small- scale millers in Conta-
mana 341
