Kristina M Lyons

Vital Decomposition

Soil Practitioners and Life Politics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kristina M. Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil relations in which she follows state soil scientists and peasant farmers in Colombia's Putumayo region, showing how their relationship with soil is key to caring for the forest and growing non-illicit crops in the face of violence, militarism, and environmental destruction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2020
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781478007692
• ISBN-10: 1478007699
• Artikelnr.: 56791280

Autorenporträt

Kristina M. Lyons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Life in the Midst of Poison  1
1. From Aerial Spaces to Litter Layers  10
2. The Theater of Life Is Also a Stage of Death: Beyond Surface Chauvinism 
41
3. Partial Alliances among Minor Practices: The "Ellusive" Nature of
Colombia's Amazonian Plains  70
4. Decomposition as Life Politics: On Reclaiming and Relaying  105
5. Resonating Farms and Vital Spaces: A Person and His Concepts  137
6. Which Soils? Where Soils? Why Soils?  169
Notes  183
References  197
Index  213