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Terrestrial Transformations

A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature
Buch | Hardcover
318 Seiten
2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0546-7 (ISBN)
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Drawing on a broad range of case studies, the contributors to Terrestrial Transformations explore the political and economic forces entangled in environmental and ecological problems and look at humanity’s future in light of climate change and existing environmental problems.
Humanity’s future may rest on how we deal with climate change, environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature recognizes that such problems have social, political, and cultural contexts, and that politics, money, and power have physical impacts on nature and society that cannot be ignored. This book brings together a set of authors whose chapters provide an overview of the political ecology approach, illustrating its theoretical underpinnings, central concepts, methods, and major interests. The chapters in this collection examine the political contexts of a broad range of environmental and social problems, drawing attention to the political and economic forces driving environmental and ecological problems, how societies are transformed as they attempt to cope and adapt to a changing nature, and who pays the price.

Thomas K. Park is professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. James B. Greenberg is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona.

Acknowledgments



Introduction



Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg



Chapter 1. The Anthropocene and other noxious concepts



Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg



Chapter 2. The Political Ecology of Climate Change



James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park



Chapter 3. Digital Sensing and Human-Environment Relationships in the Face of Climate Variability in Senegal and Mauritania



Thomas K. Park, Aminata Niang and Mamadou Baro



Chapter 4. The Political Ecology of Languagelessness of the Southwest North American Region: Case Studies in the Linguistic Commoditization of Mexican Origin People



Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez



Chapter 5. Political Ecology of Guitars and their Tonewoods



James B. Greenberg



Chapter 6. Indigenous responses to colonialism in an island state: a geopolitical ecology of Kanaky-New Caledonia



Simon Batterbury, Séverine Bouard, and Matthias Kowasch



Chapter 7. An Everyday Politics of Access: The Political Ecology of Infrastructure in Cape Town’s Informal Settlements



Angela Storey



Chapter 8. Land Tenure Issues and Socio-Political Challenges in Mauritania



Mamadou Baro



Chapter 9. Complicity and Resistance in the Indigenous Amazon: Economia Indigena Under Siege



Alaka Wali



Chapter 10. Dolphin Hunters or Dolphin Saviors: Cultural Identity Choices Under Intensifying Sea Level Rise, Cash-Dependence, and a New Eco-Christian Conservation



Sarah Keen Meltzoff



Chapter 11. When Pachamama is Left Hungry: Healing and Misfortune in the Atacama Desert



Anita Carrasco



Chapter 12. Place Matters: Tracking Coastal Restoration after the Deepwater Horizon



Diane Austin and Victoria Phaneuf



Chapter 13. Practicing Political Ecology in the New Restoration Economy



Ravic P. Nijbroek



Chapter 14. Nature conservation and the ambiguous human-nature relationship



Ylva Uggla



Chapter 15. Hope and Possibility for Transformation in Ordinary Acts of Well-Being on a Bicycle-Pedestrian Trail



Lisa L. Gezon



Conclusion



James B. Greenberg, Thomas K. Park, Simon Batterbury, Casey Walsh, Edward Liebow



References



Index

About the Editors & Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Diane E. Austin, Mamadou Baro, Simon Batterbury
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 228 mm
Gewicht 676 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-7936-0546-7 / 1793605467
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-0546-7 / 9781793605467
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