for carol carpenter

each week, for my social science of development and conservation class, i write 1 sentence (and only one, or off with our heads) summarizing 3 articles we read for class. here's this week's:

"While subsidizing their own livlihoods and the upkeep of the developing state, those practicing "subsistence" agriculture and "traditional" lifestyles prevent their economic input from being measured (by Western practices) thereby assuring that imposed, ineffective conservation practices and undesirable development practices go uncontested."

based on:
•Tsing, A.L. 2003. Natural Resources and Capitalist Frontiers. Economic and Political Weekly 29: 5100-5106.
•Li, T.M. 1997. Producing Agrarian Transformation at the Indonesian Periphery. In: Economic Analysis Beyond the Local System. R.E. Blanton et al, Eds. University Press of American. Pp. 125-146.
•Carpenter, C. 2001. The Role of Economic Invisibility in Development: Veiling Women’s Work in Rural Pakistan. Natural Resources Forum 25(1): 11-20.