Critical Green Engagements: Investigating the Green Economy and Its Alternatives – serie
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23 produkter
Nature of Spectacle
On Images, Money, and Conserving Capitalism
Av James Igoe
Häftad, 2017
342 kr
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In The Nature of Spectacle, Jim Igoe embarks on multifaceted explorations of how we imagine nature and how nature shapes our imaginations. The book traces spectacular productions of imagined nature across time and space—from African nature tourism to transnational policy events to green consumer …
Narrating Nature
Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing
Inbunden, 2020
677 kr
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The current environmental crises demand that we revisit dominant approaches for understanding nature-society relations. Narrating Nature brings together various ways of knowing nature from differently situated Maasai and conservation practitioners and scientists into lively debate. It speaks to the …
River Dialogues
Hindu Faith and the Political Ecology of Dams on the Sacred Ganga
Häftad, 2020
398 kr
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India's sacred Ganga River is arguably one of the most iconic sites for worship, with a continuity of rituals for the living and the dead that span over two millennia. Along the river, from high in the Himalaya to the vast plains below, people gather daily to worship the Ganga through prayer and …
Once Upon the Permafrost
Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia
Häftad, 2021
342 kr
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Once Upon the Permafrost is a longitudinal climate ethnography about “knowing” a specific culture and the ecosystem that culture physically and spiritually depends on in the twenty-first-century context of climate change.The author, anthropologist Susan Alexandra Crate, has spent three decades …
Once Upon the Permafrost
Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia
Inbunden, 2021
1151 kr
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Once Upon the Permafrost is a longitudinal climate ethnography about “knowing” a specific culture and the ecosystem that culture physically and spiritually depends on in the twenty-first-century context of climate change.The author, anthropologist Susan Alexandra Crate, has spent three decades …
Hottest of the Hotspots
The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar
Inbunden, 2023
732 kr
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Continually recognized as one of the “hottest” of all the world’s biodiversity hotspots, the island of Madagascar has become ground zero for the most intensive market-based conservation interventions on Earth.This book details the rollout of market conservation programs, including the finding drugs …
Coastal Lives
Nature, Capital, and the Struggle for Artisanal Fisheries in Peru
Av Maximilian Viatori, Héctor Andrés Bombiella Medina
Häftad, 2020
342 kr
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Peru's fisheries are in crisis as overfishing and ecological changes produce dramatic fluctuations in fish stocks. To address this crisis, government officials have claimed that fishers need to become responsible producers who create economic advantages by taking better care of the ocean ecologies …
Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration
Life, Death, and Conservation in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef
Häftad, 2023
300 kr
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Voluntourism and Multispecies Collaboration is a lively ethnographic exploration of the world of conservation voluntourism and its engagement with marine and terrestrial biodiversity on the Honduran Bay Island of Utila, located in the ecologically critical Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.In this highly …
Carbon Calculation
Global Climate Policy, Forests, and Transnational Governance in Brazil and Mozambique
Av Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro
Inbunden, 2023
732 kr
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The Carbon Calculation examines how climate science, the policy world, and neoliberalism have mutually informed each other to define the problem of climate change as one of “market failure”—precluding alternatives to market-based solutions.Focusing on REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation …
Narrating Nature
Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing
Häftad, 2022
378 kr
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The current environmental crises demand that we revisit dominant approaches for understanding nature-society relations. Narrating Nature brings together various ways of knowing nature from differently situated Maasai and conservation practitioners and scientists into lively debate. It speaks to the …
Corporate Nature
An Insider's Ethnography of Global Conservation
Av Sarah Milne
Inbunden, 2022
705 kr
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In 2012, Cambodia’s most prominent environmental activist was brutally murdered in a high-profile conservation area in the Cardamom Mountains. Tragic and terrible, this event also magnifies a crisis in humanity’s efforts to save nature: failure of the very tools and systems at hand for advancing …
We Stay the Same
Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea
Inbunden, 2024
732 kr
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On a remote island in the South Pacific, the Lavongai have consistently struggled to obtain development through logging and commercial agriculture. Yet many Lavongai still long to move beyond the grind of subsistence work that has seemingly defined their lives on New Hanover, Papua New Guinea, for …
Running After Paradise
Hope, Survival, and Activism in Brazil's Atlantic Forest
Häftad, 2023
328 kr
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Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is a paradise to many. In Southern Bahia, surfers, billionaires, travelers, and hippies mingle with environmentalists, family farmers, quilombolas (descendants of formerly enslaved people), and nativos, or “locals.” Each of these groups has connections to the unique …
Cookstove Chronicles
Social Life of a Women's Technology in India
Inbunden, 2024
732 kr
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Stove improvers have been designing and promoting “clean” or “efficient” biomass cookstoves in India since the 1940s and have been frustrated to find their carefully engineered stoves abandoned in trash heaps or repurposed as storage bins, while the traditional mud chulha retains a central place in …
Nature Inc.
Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age
Av Bram Büscher, Wolfram Dressler m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
384 kr
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Can 'market forces' solve the world's environmental problems? The stakes are undeniably high. With wildlife populations and biodiversity riches threatened across the globe, it is obvious that new and innovative methods of addressing the crisis are vital to the future of the planet. But is 'the …
Alterhumanism
Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier
Häftad, 2025
384 kr
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What does it mean to be human in the Anthropocene? Set against the backdrop of southern Chile's conservation frontier, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani's Alterhumanism invites us to recognize the centrality of the human condition in the face of an increasingly uncertain world and imagine future forms of …
Alterhumanism
Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier
Inbunden, 2025
1123 kr
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What does it mean to be human in the Anthropocene? Set against the backdrop of southern Chile's conservation frontier, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani's Alterhumanism invites us to recognize the centrality of the human condition in the face of an increasingly uncertain world and imagine future forms of …
Naturalizing Inequality
Water, Race, and Biopolitics in South Africa
Häftad, 2025
328 kr
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More than twenty-five years after the end of apartheid, water access remains a striking reminder of racial inequality in South Africa. This book compellingly argues that in the post-apartheid period inequality has not only been continuously reproduced but also legitimized. Michela Marcatelli …
Corporate Nature
An Insider's Ethnography of Global Conservation
Av Sarah Milne
Häftad, 2025
384 kr
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In 2012, Cambodia’s most prominent environmental activist was brutally murdered in a high-profile conservation area in the Cardamom Mountains. Tragic and terrible, this event magnifies a crisis in humanity’s efforts to save nature: failure of the very tools and systems at hand for advancing global …
Hottest of the Hotspots
The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar
Häftad, 2025
384 kr
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Continually recognized as one of the “hottest” of all the world’s biodiversity hotspots, the island of Madagascar has become ground zero for the most intensive market-based conservation interventions on Earth. This book details the rollout of market conservation programs, including the finding of …
We Stay the Same
Subsistence, Logging, and Enduring Hopes for Development in Papua New Guinea
Häftad, 2025
384 kr
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On a remote island in the South Pacific, the Lavongai have consistently struggled to obtain development through logging and commercial agriculture. Yet many Lavongai still long to move beyond the grind of subsistence work that has seemingly defined their lives on New Hanover, Papua New Guinea, for …
Cookstove Chronicles
Social Life of a Women's Technology in India
Häftad, 2026
384 kr
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Stove improvers have been designing and promoting “clean” or “efficient” biomass cookstoves in India since the 1940s and have been frustrated to find their carefully engineered stoves abandoned in trash heaps or repurposed as storage bins, while the traditional mud chulha retains a central place in …
Moral Ecology of a Forest
The Nature Industry and Maya Post-Conservation
Inbunden, 2016
649 kr
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Forests are alive, filled with rich, biologically complex life forms and the interrelationships of multiple species and materials. Vulnerable to a host of changing conditions in this global era, forests are in peril as never before. New markets in carbon and environmental services attract …
