Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability – serie
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Global Magic
Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street
Av Alf Hornborg
Häftad, 2017
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607 kr
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Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society. The argument …
Anthropology of Sustainability
Beyond Development and Progress
Av Marc Brightman, Jerome Lewis
Inbunden, 2017
1643 kr
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This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim …
Global Magic
Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street
Av Alf Hornborg
Inbunden, 2016
607 kr
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Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society. The argument …
Anthropology of Sustainability
Beyond Development and Progress
Av Marc Brightman, Jerome Lewis
Häftad, 2020
280 kr
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This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim …
Ethnography of Household Energy Demand in the UK
Everyday Temporalities of Digital Media Usage
Häftad, 2018
258 kr
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This book challenges the ways we think about human agency by looking at the creativity, ethics, and capacities for social transformation that are embedded in simple actions of “doing”. Stemming from ethnographic research with families in the United Kingdom as part of a wider interdisciplinary …
Indigenous Perceptions of the End of the World
Creating a Cosmopolitics of Change
Av Rosalyn Bold
Inbunden, 2019
937 kr
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This edited volume constructs a ‘cosmopolitics’ of climate change, consulting small-scale sustainable communities on whether the world is ending and why, and how we can take action to prevent it. By comparing scientific and indigenous accounts of the same phenomenon, contributors seek to broaden …
Indigenous Perceptions of the End of the World
Creating a Cosmopolitics of Change
Av Rosalyn Bold
Häftad, 2020
663 kr
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This edited volume constructs a ‘cosmopolitics’ of climate change, consulting small-scale sustainable communities on whether the world is ending and why, and how we can take action to prevent it. By comparing scientific and indigenous accounts of the same phenomenon, contributors seek to broaden …
Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication
Av Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist, Ivan Murin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1212 kr
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In the continuous search for sustainability, the exchange of diverse perspectives, assumptions, and values is indispensable to environmental protection. Through anthropological and ethnographic analyses, this collection addresses how interests, values, and ideologies affect dialogue and …
Returning to Q'ero
Sustaining Indigeneity in an Andean Ecosystem 1969-2020
Inbunden, 2023
1541 kr
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In this book, social anthropologist Steven Webster provides an ethnohistory of sustainability among the indigenous Andean community of Hatun Q’ero since the 1960s. He first revisits his detailed ecological research among the remote Q’ero in the high Andes of Southern Peru in 1969–1970 and 1977. At …
Returning to Q'ero
Sustaining Indigeneity in an Andean Ecosystem 1969-2020
Häftad, 2024
1541 kr
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In this book, social anthropologist Steven Webster provides an ethnohistory of sustainability among the indigenous Andean community of Hatun Q’ero since the 1960s. He first revisits his detailed ecological research among the remote Q’ero in the high Andes of Southern Peru in 1969–1970 and 1977. At …
Relating with More-than-Humans
Interbeing Rituality in a Living World
Inbunden, 2023
1432 kr
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Within the social sciences, other-than-human being’s agency has often been denied and interbeings relationships have not been fully addressed. However, many indigenous worldviews and Western contemporary spiritual practices are shaping a very different reality, with various attempts to share the …
Relating with More-than-Humans
Interbeing Rituality in a Living World
Häftad, 2024
1432 kr
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Within the social sciences, other-than-human being’s agency has often been denied and interbeings relationships have not been fully addressed. However, many indigenous worldviews and Western contemporary spiritual practices are shaping a very different reality, with various attempts to share the …
Anthropology of Conservation NGOs
Rethinking the Boundaries
Av Peter Bille Larsen, Dan Brockington
Inbunden, 2017
1431 kr
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This book explores how NGOs have been influential in shaping global biodiversity, conservation policy, and practice. It encapsulates a growing body of literature that has questioned the mandates, roles, and effectiveness of these organizations–and the critique of these critics. This volume seeks to …
Anthropology of Conservation NGOs
Rethinking the Boundaries
Av Peter Bille Larsen, Dan Brockington
Häftad, 2018
334 kr
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This book explores how NGOs have been influential in shaping global biodiversity, conservation policy, and practice. It encapsulates a growing body of literature that has questioned the mandates, roles, and effectiveness of these organizations–and the critique of these critics. This volume seeks to …
