New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century – serie
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Designs for the Pluriverse
Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
306 kr
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In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design-from consumer goods and digital technologies …
In Search of the Rain Forest
Häftad, 2004
384 kr
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The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”-emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots-promotes the popular image of a …
Environmentality
Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects
Av Arun Agrawal
Inbunden, 2005
1569 kr
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In Kumaon in northern India, villagers set hundreds of forest fires in the early 1920s, protesting the colonial British state’s regulations to protect the environment. Yet by the 1990s, they had begun to conserve their forests carefully. In his innovative historical and political study, Arun …
Environmentality
Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects
Av Arun Agrawal
Häftad, 2005
384 kr
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In Kumaon in northern India, villagers set hundreds of forest fires in the early 1920s, protesting the colonial British state’s regulations to protect the environment. Yet by the 1990s, they had begun to conserve their forests carefully. In his innovative historical and political study, Arun …
Reimagining Political Ecology
Av Aletta Biersack, James B. Greenberg
Häftad, 2006
495 kr
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Reimagining Political Ecology is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political …
How Nature Speaks
The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition
Av Yrjo Haila, Chuck Dyke
Häftad, 2006
384 kr
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How Nature Speaks illustrates the convergence of complexity theory in the biophysical and social sciences and the implications of the science of complexity for environmental politics and practice. This collection of essays focuses on uncertainty, surprise, and positionality-situated rather than …
How Nature Speaks
The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition
Av Yrjo Haila, Chuck Dyke
Inbunden, 2006
1318 kr
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How Nature Speaks illustrates the convergence of complexity theory in the biophysical and social sciences and the implications of the science of complexity for environmental politics and practice. This collection of essays focuses on uncertainty, surprise, and positionality-situated rather than …
Conservation Is Our Government Now
The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea
Av Paige West
Häftad, 2006
440 kr
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A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses …
Territories of Difference
Place, Movements, Life, Redes
Häftad, 2008
418 kr
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In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of …
Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond
Av Mario Blaser
Inbunden, 2010
1318 kr
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For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the …
Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond
Av Mario Blaser
Häftad, 2010
384 kr
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For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the …
Beyond the Sacred Forest
Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
Av Michael R. Dove, Percy E. Sajise m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
632 kr
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Reflecting new thinking about conservation in Southeast Asia, Beyond the Sacred Forest is the product of a unique, decade-long, interdisciplinary collaboration involving research in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Scholars from these countries and the United States rethink the translation …
Reigning the River
Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu
Häftad, 2011
264 kr
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A major contribution to the nascent anthropology of urban environments, Reigning the River illuminates the complexities of river restoration in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital and one of the fastest-growing cities in South Asia. In this rich ethnography, Anne M. Rademacher explores the ways that urban …
Food, Farms, and Solidarity
French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops
Av Chaia Heller
Häftad, 2013
440 kr
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The ConfÉdÉration Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers. In Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Chaia Heller analyzes the group's …
Romancing the Wild
Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism
Inbunden, 2014
1569 kr
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The worldwide development of ecotourism-including adventures such as mountain climbing and whitewater rafting, as well as more pedestrian pursuits such as birdwatching-has been extensively studied, but until now little attention has been paid to why vacationers choose to take part in what are often …
Rhythms of the Pachakuti
Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia
Inbunden, 2014
2071 kr
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In the indigenous Andean language of Aymara, pachakuti refers to the subversion and transformation of social relations. Between 2000 and 2005, Bolivia was radically transformed by a series of popular indigenous uprisings against the country's neoliberal and antidemocratic policies. In Rhythms of …
Romancing the Wild
Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism
Häftad, 2014
384 kr
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The worldwide development of ecotourism-including adventures such as mountain climbing and whitewater rafting, as well as more pedestrian pursuits such as birdwatching-has been extensively studied, but until now little attention has been paid to why vacationers choose to take part in what are often …
Rhythms of the Pachakuti
Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia
Häftad, 2014
395 kr
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In the indigenous Andean language of Aymara, pachakuti refers to the subversion and transformation of social relations. Between 2000 and 2005, Bolivia was radically transformed by a series of popular indigenous uprisings against the country's neoliberal and antidemocratic policies. In Rhythms of …
Cultivating the Nile
The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt
Inbunden, 2014
1639 kr
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The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She examines the quotidian practices of …
Cultivating the Nile
The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt
Häftad, 2014
342 kr
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The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She examines the quotidian practices of …
Alchemy in the Rain Forest
Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area
Inbunden, 2015
1300 kr
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In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using …
Alchemy in the Rain Forest
Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area
Häftad, 2015
384 kr
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In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and environmental degradation. Drawing on theories of political ecology, place, and ontology and using …
Geographies of Social Movements
Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space
Inbunden, 2016
1358 kr
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In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender proposes a critical place perspective to examine the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast region. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around the town of Guapi, Oslender examines how …
Geographies of Social Movements
Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space
Häftad, 2016
395 kr
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In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender proposes a critical place perspective to examine the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast region. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around the town of Guapi, Oslender examines how …
Steeped in Heritage
The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea
Inbunden, 2017
1616 kr
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South African rooibos tea is a commodity of contrasts. Renowned for its healing properties, the rooibos plant grows in a region defined by the violence of poverty, dispossession, and racism. And while rooibos is hailed as an ecologically indigenous commodity, it is farmed by people who struggle to …
Landscapes of Power
Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation
Inbunden, 2018
1255 kr
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In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico to trace the political conflicts surrounding native sovereignty and contemporary energy development on Navajo (DinÉ) Nation land. Powell's historical and …
Steeped in Heritage
The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea
Häftad, 2017
395 kr
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South African rooibos tea is a commodity of contrasts. Renowned for its healing properties, the rooibos plant grows in a region defined by the violence of poverty, dispossession, and racism. And while rooibos is hailed as an ecologically indigenous commodity, it is farmed by people who struggle to …
Landscapes of Power
Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation
Häftad, 2018
326 kr
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In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico to trace the political conflicts surrounding native sovereignty and contemporary energy development on Navajo (DinÉ) Nation land. Powell's historical and …
Designs for the Pluriverse
Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
Inbunden, 2018
1243 kr
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In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design-from consumer goods and digital technologies …
In Search of the Rain Forest
Inbunden, 2004
1318 kr
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The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”-emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots-promotes the popular image of a …
