立足于中国政治、经济和环境变迁的宏大背景，本书考察了内蒙古一个村落村民数十年的日常环境经历及由此引致的生态环境变迁。主要内容涉及妇女和男性在日常生活中如何利用和管理草原、土地、树木和水等自然资源，从事农田劳作以及改造大自然的活动。基于民族志的田野研究，本书揭示了国家、市场、社区和家庭的制度流变如何型塑不同性别、年龄、族裔村民的异质化经历，进而影响当地的生态景观。它从微观视角也折射了过往半个多世纪中国西部乡村的环境经历与发展模式。
Chapter One Engendering Rural Development and Environmental Changes
Rural Modernization, Ecological Legacy and Gender
Contested Terrain: Gender, Natural Resources Management and Institutional
Matrixes
Main Structure
Chapter Two The Politics of Fieldwork
Site Selection
The Initial Visits
An Ethnographic Gaze: Power in Operation, Power in Transition
Chapter Three The Setting: Land and Its People
A Peasant Community in Northeastern China
A Village in Flux: The Intersection of Class, Gender and Ethnicity
Landscape Dynamics and Environmental Challenges
Chapter Four Agrarian Changes and the Crusade against Local Environment
Agricultural Collectivization and Its Environmental Impacts
Plunging Into Smallholder Patterns: Agricultural Intensification,Technological Changes and the Gendered Labor Regimes
The Livestock Economy in an Ecological Context
Chapter Five Voices from the Grassroots: Gender,Bureaucratic State Power and the Mass Mobilization Conservation Campaign
Environmental Action as a Mass Mobilization Conservation
Campaign: a Local Tale
The History of Mass Conservation Practices in a Peasant Village
From Success to Tragedy: The Legacy of a Party Secretary
In the Shadow of a New Round of“Development”
Chapter Six The State, Community-based Natural Resource Management and Resistance Politics
The State at the Grassroots Level
Community-based Natural Resource Management and Its Dilemmas
The Powerless Fight Back: Resistance Politics in the Village
Everyday Forms of Resistance
Chapter Seven Intra-household Dynamics and Inter-household Interactions
A Shift of Gender and Power in Intra-household Dynamics
Inter-household Relationships in Practice
Chapter Eight Market, Off-farm Work and Socioeconomic Differentiation: Money Changes Everything
The Evolution of the Market as an Institutional Mechanism:
The Rush to Off- farm Pursuits
Emerging Wealth and Poverty through Villagers' Eyes
Chapter Nine Gender, Conservation and Development:Sustainability Dilemmas
Literature Cited
Appendix
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