The contributions to this volume stem from papers delivered at the international workshop “Man and Environment in Indonesia, 1500-1950,” held in June 1996 at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden. Scholars of geography, history, development, and anthropology explore the natural background against which Indonesian society came into being, …
This book brings together the disciplines of childhood studies, literary studies, and the environmental humanities to focus on the figure of the child as it appears in popular culture and theory. Drawing on theoretical works by Clare Colebrook, Elizabeth Povinelli, Kathryn Yusoff, Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour the book offers creative readings of sci-fi novels, short stories and films includin…
In the nineteenth century, Karl Marx, inspired by the German chemist Justus von Liebig, argued that capitalism’s relation to its natural environment was that of a robbery system, leading to an irreparable rift in the metabolism between humanity and nature. In the twenty-first century, these classical insights into capitalism’s degradation of the earth have become the basis of extraordinary …
This monograph is an expansion and comprehensive revision of the first section of my earlier programmatic essay, "The Development of the Javanese Economy: A Socio-Cultural Approach," issued in dittoed form by the Center for International Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1856 as document C/56-1 in their Economic Development Program series. This book is an attempt to app…