Rich Forests, Poor People

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Summary

Peluso untangles the complex of peasant and state politics that has developed in Java over three centuries.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Structures of Access Control, Repetoires of Resistance
Traditions of Forest Control in Java
Gaining Access to People and Trees
The Emergence of "Scientific" Forestry in Colonial Java
State Forests and Changes in State
Organized Forest Violence, Reorganized Forest Access, 1942-1966
State Power to Persist: Contemporary Forms of Forest Access Control
Peasant Power to Resist
A Forest without Trees
Teak and Temptation on the Extreme Periphery: Cultural Perspectives on Forest Crime
Conclusion
Toward Integrated Social Forestry
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