Forest Lost

Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon

Maron E. Greenleaf

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Duke University Press
22 November 2024

Social & cultural anthropology; Economic systems & structures; Forests, rainforests; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Forest Lost is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest commodities, forest carbon offsets do not involve resource extraction; instead, they require keeping carbon in place through forest protection. Maron E. Greenleaf explores forest carbon offsets to understand green capitalism-the use of capitalist logics and practices to mitigate environmental damage. She traces cultural, environmental, governmental, material, and multispecies relations involved in making forest carbon valuable as well as how forest carbon’s commodification in the Amazon turned it into a source of redistributable public environmental wealth. At the same time, Greenleaf shows how making forest carbon monetarily valuable created an unexpected set of uneven, contingent, and contested social and political relations. While forest carbon in the Amazon demonstrates that green capitalism can be socially inclusive, it also shows that green capitalism can reinforce the marginalization it purportedly seeks to combat. By outlining these complex relations and tensions, Greenleaf elucidates broader efforts to create a capitalism suited to the Anthropocene and those efforts’ alluring promises and vexing failures.

By: Maron E. Greenleaf
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9781478031086
ISBN 10: 1478031085
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 22 November 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xiii Preface: Green Capitalism xvii Introduction 1 1. Carbon Boom 33 Interlude I. Highway Landscapes 57 2. Producing the Forest 64 Interlude II. The Flood 83 3. Robin Hood in the Untenured Forest 86 Interlude III. The Rural Road, Part 1 111 4. Beneficiaries and Forest Citizenship 114 Interlude IV. The Rural Road, Part 2 128 5. The Urban Forest 131 Afterword. Carbon Bust 153 Notes 165 Bibliography 231 Index

Maron E. Greenleaf is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College.

Reviews for Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon

“In this compelling book Maron E. Greenleaf disentangles the overwhelmingly complex socio-ecological, political-economic, and interspecies relationships that have resulted in the climate crisis and also must be understood and transformed to combat the crisis. She does this through a brilliant analysis of ‘green capitalism’ and its history, transformative power, failings, and afterlives.” - Paige West, Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University “Maron E. Greenleaf’s key insight that making forest carbon entails a remaking of socio-environmental relations-a complex and open-ended process that presents challenges as well as opportunities-allows her to retheorize the making of value through novel relations, reworkings, and speculations about what’s to come in rural Amazonia. Forest Lost makes a signal contribution to the study of the political ecology of the region while offering explanatory frames that will help illuminate the global proliferation of carbon markets with the care and attention that ethnographic immersion allows.” - Jeremy M. Campbell, author of (Conjuring Property: Speculation and Environmental Futures in the Brazilian Amazon)