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Michael R. Dove
Researcher at Yale University
Publications - 143
Citations - 4629
Michael R. Dove is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Indigenous & Politics. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 142 publications receiving 4334 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael R. Dove include American Museum of Natural History & Rockefeller Foundation.
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Indigenous People and Environmental Politics
TL;DR: The concept of indigenous knowledge is similarly faulted in favor of the hybrid products of modernity, and the idea of indigenous environmental knowledge and conservation is heatedly contested as mentioned in this paper, but they are reluctant to deny it to local communities, whose use of the concept has become subject to study.
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Theories of swidden agriculture, and the political economy of ignorance
TL;DR: In the context of agroforestry development in humid, tropical countries, the authors argues that much of this debate deals not with the empirical facts of swidden agriculture, however, but rather with widely-accepted myths, and that this explains the widespread failures of developmental schemes involving swidden agriculturalists.
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A Revisionist View of Tropical Deforestation and Development
TL;DR: Any resolution of the problems of tropical forest development and conservation must begin not by searching for resources that forest dwellers do not already have, but by first searching for the institutional forces that restrict their ownership and productive use of existing resources.
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Theories of Swidden Agriculture, and the Political Economy of Ignorance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that much of this debate deals not with the empirical facts of swidden agriculture, however, but rather with widely-accepted myths, and that this explains the widespread failures of developmental schemes involving swidden agriculturalists.
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A Revisionist View of Tropical Deforestation and Development
TL;DR: In this paper, a parable from Kalimantan, relating how the discovery of a big diamond can bring misfortune to a poor miner, is used to suggest that the major challenge is not to give more development opportunities to forest peoples but to take fewer away.