Introduction : Towards an ethnography of ecological underprivilege / Eeva Berglund and David G. Anderson -- Pitfalls of synchronicity : a case study of the Caiçaras in the Atlantic rainforest of South-eastern Brazil / Cristina Adams -- Nature as contested terrain : conflicts over wilderness protection and local livelihoods in Río San Juan, Nicaragua / Anja Nygren -- The environment at the periphery : conflicting discourses on the forest in Tanimbar, Eastern Indonesia / Nicola Frost and Rachel Wrangham -- Protest, conflict and litigation : dissent or libel in resistance to a conservancy in North-west Namibia / Sian Sullivan -- Environmentalism in the Syrian Badia : the assumptions of degradation, protection and Bedouin misuse / Dawn Chatty -- 'Ecocide and genocide' : explorations of environmental justice in Lakota Sioux country / Bornali Halder -- Promoting consumption in the rainforest : global conservation in Papua New Guinea / David M. Ellis -- 'We are still Soviet people' : youth ecological culture in the Republic of Tatarstan and the legacy of the Soviet Union / Luna Rolle -- The ecology of markets in Central Siberia / David G. Anderson -- Contrasting landscapes, conflicting ontologies : assessing environmental conservation on Palawan Island (the Philippines) / Dario Novellino -- Ecologism as an idiom in Amazonian anthropology / Stephen Nugent