Symbolic action and soil fertility: Political ecology and the transformation of space and place in Tonga

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dc.contributor.authorStevens, C. J.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialTongaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:07:58Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:07:58Zen
dc.date.issued2004en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses the historical and contemporary transition between traditional and industrial land management practices and agricultural markets throughout Tonga. This case study from 1991-1993, focuses on gathering quantitative and qualitative information on household economics and soil fertility in monocropped, subsistence, market, and inactive fields. Using a political ecology approach, the author studies the interconnected relationships and changes in feasting rituals, food consumption, democratic rights, religion, labor migrations, and commercial cropping to explore how changes in these social and ecological activities have degraded the land and soil fertility. Furthermore, this case study shows how Tongan land-management activities and social identities are influenced by regional and global marketplaces associated with commercial crop production systems.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier4726en
dc.identifier.isbn0-8135-3478-Xen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/68962en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherPiscataway, New Jersey: Rutgers University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofIn: Paulson, S. and L.L. Gezon. (eds.). Political Ecology across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups, 154-173en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2005 Rutgers, the State University of New Jerseyen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectSoil fertilityen
dc.subjectLocal marketsen
dc.subjectSoil qualityen
dc.subjectPolitical ecologyen
dc.subjectEnvironmental degradationen
dc.subjectTongaen
dc.subjectDemocractic rightsen
dc.subjectPoliciesen
dc.subjectGlobalen
dc.subjectLand managementen
dc.subjectSocialen
dc.subjectCommercial agricultureen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Field Scale Governanceen
dc.titleSymbolic action and soil fertility: Political ecology and the transformation of space and place in Tongaen
dc.typeAbstracten
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