Ecological Nostalgias: Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals

Published by Berghahn Books 2020

Ecological Nostalgias

Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals

Edited by: Olivia Angé and David Berliner

Volume 26 in the series Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789208948

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About this book

Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future.

Author / Editor information

Olivia Angé is an Associate Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles. Besides a series of papers, she is the author of Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes (Berghahn, 2018), and co-editor of Anthropology and Nostalgia (Berghahn, 2014).

David Berliner is a Professor of Anthropology at Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is the co-editor of Learning Religion (Berghahn, 2007), Anthropology and Nostalgia (Berghahn, 2014) and World Heritage on the Ground (Berghahn, 2016).

Olivia Angé is an Associate Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles. Besides a series of papers, she is the author of Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes (Berghahn, 2018), and co-editor of Anthropology and Nostalgia (Berghahn, 2014).

Reviews

“Explores and exemplifies ethnographically an emerging conceptual framework on ecological nostalgias to better understand the emotional impacts on and responses of people to the environmental crises that beset our world&rdquo. • Rajindra K. Puri, University of Kent

“It is a tour de force in showing what anthropology can contribute to thinking about the global ecological crisis, and why the cultural and political dimensions of this crisis are no less important than the material ones”. • Marc Brightman, University of Bologna

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
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Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Olivia Angé and David Berliner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 Thinking Through Nostalgia in Anthropologies of the Environment and Ethnographies of Landscape Roy Ellen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter 2 High Arctic Nostalgia: Thule and the Ecology of Mind Kirsten Hastrup Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 3 Nostalgic Confessions in the French Cévennes: Politics of Longings in the Neo-Peasants Initiatives Madeleine Sallustio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Chapter 4 The Nature of Loss: Ecological Nostalgia and Cultural Politics in Amazonia Casey High Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Chapter 5 Ecological Nostalgias and Interspecies Affect in the Highland Potato Fields of Cuzco (Peru) Olivia Angé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Chapter 6 The Village and the Hamlet in the Mixe Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Nostalgic Commitments to Working and Living Together Perig Pitrou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Chapter 7 Peaceful Countryside: Ecologies of Longing and the Temporality of Flux in Contemporary Mongolia Richard D.G. Irvine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Chapter 8 Melt in the Future Subjunctive Cymene Howe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
Afterword Dominic Boyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183