The Mushroom at the End of the World (eBook)

On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (Autor)

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2015
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7354-8 (ISBN)

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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Niels Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she codirects Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). She is the author of Friction and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen (both Princeton).

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A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment.Pankaj Mishra, The GuardianI'm very grateful to have this book.Ursula K. Le GuinThe acclaimed and award-winning book about what a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetA Flavorwire and Times Higher Education Book of the YearMatsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the worldand a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction.By investigating one of the world's most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 29 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Aarhus University • Adventure Story (play) • Agriculture • amanita • Amanita muscaria • americans • Anomie • Anti-Communism • Armillaria root rot • Auction • author • bamboo shoot • Bhutan • Bibliography • Big Science • biologist • boletus • Boletus edulis • Boundary Object • Cambodia • Capitalism • caple • Castanopsis • charcoal • Charles Darwin • CITES • clearcutting • climate change • Codevelopment • Collaboration • Commodity • Commodity chain • communism • compost • Coppicing • Criticism of capitalism • Cuisine • Cultigen • Cultural Studies • David Arora • debt • deforestation • dichotomy • Douglas fir • Drought • Durian • Ecology • Economic Botany • Economic Development • Economic Power • Economics • economy • Economy of Japan • ecosystem • ecosystem engineer • ectomycorrhiza • Edo Period • Employment • endemism • Entrepreneurship • Environmental economics • Environmental history • Environmentalism • Environmental Law • Erosion • Essay • ethnography • Evolution • extinction event • Feminist Studies • Field agent • firewood • First principle • foraging • forest floor • Forest management • Forest product • forestry • Fossil fuel • founder effect • fungus • Gail Hershatter • Genre • Germination • Governance • green manure • Hectare • Herbicide • hmong people • Household • Humus • Illustration • imperialism • income • Indeterminate growth • Informant • intentionality • International Relations • Inventory • Irony • Japanese aesthetics • japanese americans • J. K. Gibson-Graham • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation • kerosene • Laos • larb • leaf • Life • Lifestyle (sociology) • Lifeway • listening • Lithocarpus • Livelihood • Living space • lodgepole • Logging • Lost Decade (Japan) • luck • Macrotermes • Man and Nature • Marxism • Matsutake • Modern evolutionary synthesis • Modernity • Mold • mushroom hunting • Mutation • Mycology • Mycorrhiza • Natural landscape • Nematode • New Thought • North America • nutrient • oak • Old Forest • Ophiocordyceps sinensis • optimism • Oregon • Outsourcing • Pacific Northwest • Pamphlet • Panspermia • peasant • Pesticide • Phaseolus vulgaris • Philosopher • pickup truck • Pine • pine nut • Piney (Pine Barrens resident) • Pinus contorta • Pinus densiflora • Plaza Accord • Political Economy • Political Liberalism • Politics • pollution • Population decline • Precarity • Privatization • prune • pruning • public figure • Pumice • quality of life • Race to the Bottom • Racism • raw material • Recession • Refugee • Refugee camp • Reprisal • reproductive isolation • Research Program • Restructuring • Russula • sadness • Satoyama • sawdust • Scalability • Science Fiction • Science Studies • Scientist • Scrap • Secularism • Secularization • seed company • Seed tree • sensibility • Shrub • Sidney Mintz • Silviculture • slash-and-burn • Social Anthropology • Sociality • Soil • Southeast Asia • Speciation • Storytelling • Strange New World (TV program) • Supply Chain • sustainability • tea ceremony • Termite • Thailand • The Fate of the Earth • The Japan that can say No • The National Forest (England) • Thick Description • thicket • Thinning • topsoil • Trading Company • traditional knowledge • Tricholoma magnivelare • Tricholoma zangii • Truffle • turpentine • Undoing (psychology) • Unemployment • United States • United States Forest Service • University of Cambridge • Ursula K. Le Guin • value-form • Vang Pao • Vegetable • War Stories (Firefly) • water storage • Wealth • Weed control • Wholesaling • Wolbachia • World Economy • World War II • Writing • Yunnan • Zaibatsu
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7354-1 / 1400873541
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7354-8 / 9781400873548