ISBN:
0-295-75146-0
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 386 pages) :
,
illustrations, map.
Series Statement:
Culture, Place, and Nature
Series Statement:
Culture, place, and nature.
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Human ecology.
;
Sustainability.
;
Case studies
;
Electronic books.
Abstract:
"Environmental anthropology is at its best when firmly grounded in respectful and systematic ethnographic research and writing that spotlights uncommon perspectives on widely recognized issues confronting the world. Intentionally crafted for undergraduate course use in anthropology, geography, and environmental studies, Sustaining Natures showcases the best contemporary writing on nature and sustainability. With concise introductions and sample discussion questions, the editors guide readers through some of the field's most pressing themes and debates, including farming, alternative energy, extractive industries, environmental justice, multispecies relationships, and urban ecology. This timely reader foregrounds diverse voices, views, and experiences of nature, from US corporate boardrooms to urban waste disposal sites in China, and moves environmental anthropology in new theoretical, methodological, and applied terrains"--
Description / Table of Contents:
The farming of trust : organic certification and the limits of transparency in Uttarakhand, India / Shaila Seshia Galvin -- "Queer-looking compound" : race, abjection, and the politics of Hawaiian Poi / Hiʻilei Julia Hobart -- How the grass became greener in the city : on urban imaginings and practices of sustainable living in Sweden / Cindy Isenhour -- Circularity and enclosures : metabolizing waste with the black soldier fly / Amy Zhang -- Landscapes of power : renewable energy activism in Dine Bikeyah / Dana E. Powell and Dáilan J. Long -- Decolonizing energy : Black Lives Matter and technoscientific expertise amid solar transitions / Myles Lennon -- "We're not going to be guinea pigs" : citizen science and environmental health in a native American community / Elizabeth Hoover -- Imagining the ordinary in participatory climate adaptation / Sarah E. Vaughn -- "The goat that died for family" : animal sacrifice and interspecies kinship in India's Central Himalayas / Radhika Govindrajan -- Passive flora? Reconsidering nature's agency through human-plant studies / John Charles Ryan -- What the sands remember / Vanessa Agard-Jones.
Note:
Includes index.
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