Paige West (jan 1, 1960 – 12h 24min, nov 9, 2024 y)

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ABOUT
- American, PhD at Rutgers and teaches at Barnard & Columbia
- fieldwork in Papua New Guinea
- highly influential in environmental anthropology, focusing on the interplay between societies and their environments
- directs the Columbia University Climate School's Transdisciplinary Research Lab

MAJOR WORKS
- Conservation is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (2006)
- From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea (2012)

CONTRIBUTIONS
- environmental anthropology
- political ecology

CRITIQUES
- her focus on the negative impacts of conservation efforts may overshadow the potential benefits of such initiatives
- balancing advocacy for indigenous rights with objective analysis presents challenges in maintaining scholarly neutrality

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