Kath Weston

Animate Planet

Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World

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Produktbeschreibung

Kath Weston is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. A Guggenheim Fellow and two-time winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize, Weston is the author of several books, including Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor;¿Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age ;¿and Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362104
• ISBN-10: 0822362104
• Artikelnr.: 44522541

Autorenporträt

Kath Weston

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. Generosity and Nothing But  viii
Introduction. Animating Intimacies, Reanimating a World  1
Food
1. Biosecurity and Surveillance in the Food Chain  37
Energy
2. The Unwanted Intimacy of Radiation Exposure in Japan  71
Climate Change
3. Climate Change, Slippery on the Skin  105
Water
4. The Greatest Show on Parched Earth  135
Knowing What We KNow, Why Are We Stuck?
5. Political Ecologies of the Precarious  177
Notes  199
References  217
Index  243