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Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference Edited by Donald S. Moore, Jake Kosek, & Anand Pandian Duke University Press Durham and London 2003 ∫2003 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper $ Typeset in Trump Mediaeval by Keystone Typesetting Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. ‘‘Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the Limits of Recognition in Indonesia’s Forest Zone’’ by Tania Murray Li originally published in Modern Asian Studies, vol. 35, no. 3 (2001). Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press. Paul Gilroy retains the copyright for his essay ‘‘After the Great White Error... The Great Black Mirage.’’ Donna Haraway’s chapter, ‘‘For the Love of a Good Dog: Webs of Action in the World of Dog Genetics,’’ is a slightly expanded version of her chapter that appears in the University of California Press book Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropol- ogy and Science Beyond the Two Culture Divide, edited by Alan Goodman et al., forthcoming March 2003. Permission to reprint this chapter is granted by Donna Haraway and by the University of California Press. Contents Acknowledgments vii INTRODUCTION. The Cultural Politics of Race and Nature: Terrains of Power and Practice. Donald S. Moore, Anand Pandian, and Jake Kosek 1 PART ONE. Calculating Improvements 71 1. After the Great White Error... The Great Black Mirage. Paul Gilroy 73 2. Simians, Savages, Skulls, and Sex: Science and Colonial Militarism in Nineteenth-Century South Africa. Zine Magubane 99 3. ‘‘The More You Kill the More You Will Live’’: The Maya, ‘‘Race,’’ and Biopolitical Hopes for Peace in Guatemala. Diane M. Nelson 122 PART TWO. Landscapes of Purity and Pollution 147 4. ‘‘There Is a Land Where Everything Is Pure’’: Linguistic Nationalism and Identity Politics in Germany. Uli Linke 149 5. ‘‘On the Raggedy Edge of Risk’’: Articulations of Race and Nature after Biology. Bruce Braun 175 6. Beyond Ecoliberal ‘‘Common Futures’’: Environmental Justice, Toxic Touring, and a Transcommunal Politics of Place. Giovanna Di Chiro 204 PART THREE. Communities of Blood and Belonging 233 7. Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis. Keith Wailoo 235 8. For the Love of a Good Dog: Webs of Action in the World of Dog Genetics. Donna Haraway 254 9. Intimate Publics: Race, Property, and Personhood. Robyn Wiegman 296 PART FOUR. The Politics of Representation 321 10. Men in Paradise: Sex Tourism and the Political Economy of Masculinity. Steven Gregory 323 11. Pulp Fictions of Indigenism. Alcida Ramos 356 12. Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the Limits of Recognition in Indonesia’s Forest Zone. Tania Murray Li 380 Bibliography 407 Contributors 461 Index 465 Acknowledgments Generous funding from the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation enabled our contributors to attend a con- ference we convened at the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, in February 2000. Eowyn Greeno, Estee Neuwirth, Dar Rudnyckyj, and Jennifer Sokolove provided crucial assistance for the work- shop. Michael Watts took an early interest in the project, and his inspired support remained critical to its completion. Our contributors are appreciated interlocutors whose work is the condition of possibility for this volume. Col- leagues in the Departments of Anthropology and Geography at UC Berkeley offered enabling dialogues. We also wish to thank colleagues whose par- ticipation in the conference contributed to our collective insights: Iain Boal, Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Lawrence Cohen, Caren Kaplan, Ruthie Gilmore, Allan Pred, Ato Quayson, Helena Ragone, Ajay Skaria, and Steven Small. Funding from the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University provided cru- cial support. For their critically constructive comments on previous ver- sions, giving weapons to the weak, we thank Arun Agrawal, Shubhra Guru- rani, James Scott, and Margaret Sommers. Conversations with Gillian Hart, Barnor Hesse, Orin Starn, Amita Baviskar, Leti Volpp, and Vron Ware helped clarify key moves, taking us beyond the pale. Paul Gilroy and Donna Hara- way offered more than small acts and situated knowledges generative to the project; our thanks for their gracious engagement and challenges. We are es- pecially grateful to David Theo Goldberg and Hugh Raffles, whose extensive critical comments sharpened our introduction; their rigorous involvement proved both formidable and formative. At Duke, Ken Wissoker’s supportive yet critical editorial savvy and Rebecca Johns-Danes’s insights improved the assemblage through a Latour de force. Ginger Doll’s spirit and generosity engendered insights about race, nature, and difference as well as a politics of the possible. With unwavering love and guidance, Lalitha and Ganesa Pan- dian have provided the freedom to imagine these themes otherwise. Jon and Margaret Kosek, Julie Greenberg, and the spirit of Adam Kolff have provided critical encouragement and continual inspiration. Our thanks for all these ensouled practices that informed our articulations. viii Acknowledgments Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference
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