China's Camel Country

How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasureChina today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country’s arid rangelands grassland conservation policies have targeted pastoralists and their animals blamed for causing desertification. State environmentalism—in the form of grazing bans enclosure and resettlement—has transformed the lives of many ethnic minority herders in China’s western borderlands. However this book shows how such policies have bee...See More