Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments
Redaktion: Kuyakanon, Riamsara; Sneath, David; Diemberger, Hildegard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world, presenting a comparative, place-based exploration of landscapes across Asia and the entities, practices and knowledges that inhabit them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000482300
• Artikelnr.: 62801797

Autorenporträt

Riamsara Kuyakanon is a Senior Research Associate at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK. Hildegard Diemberger is Research Director at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit & Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK. David Sneath is the Caroline Humphrey Professor of the Anthropology of Inner Asia at the Department of Social Anthropology and Director of the Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

I: Introduction: Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia: Introduction (Riam
Kuyakanon, Hildegard Diemberger, David Sneath) II: Cosmopolitical
Landscapes and Ecologies of Practice 1. When Lha Lu Spirits Suffer and
Sometimes Fight Back: Tibetan Cosmopolitics in Times of Environmental
Threats and Climate Change (Hildegard Diemberger) 2. Territorial Cults in
Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Mobilizing Spirits for Local Identity and
Environmental Protection (Yudru Tsomu) 3. Up in Smoke: Cosmopolitical
Ecologies and the Disappearing Spirits of the Land in Thailand's
Agricultural Air Pollution (Julia Cassaniti) III: Communities and Cosmos:
Place-based Knowledges and Practices 4. Balancing the Sacred Landscape:
Environmental Management in Limi North-Western Nepal (Astrid Hovden & Hanna
Havnevik) 5. 'Mother' Memorials and the Cosmopolitics of Environment in
Buryatia (Caroline Humphrey) 6. Behind the Façade: Unseen Faces of Japan
(David C. Lewis) IV: Cosmopolitics and the Contemporary State 7. Knowing
the Lords of the Land: Cosmopolitical Dynamics and Historical Change in
Mongolia (David Sneath & Elizabeth Turk) 8. Speaking of Mountain Deities
Beyond the County Border: Postsocialist Cosmopolitics and State
Territoriality in Inner Mongolia, China (Thomas White) 9. Contesting the
Chinese Taiga: Spirits, Reindeer, and Environmental Conservation in
Northeast China (Richard Fraser) V: Cosmopolitical Ecologies for the 21st
Century 10. Cosmopolitical ecologies of COVID-19 in Bhutan: Repurposing
Ritual and Re-presenting Realities (Riamsara Kuyakanon & Dorji Gyeltshen)
11. Sharing a Room with Sparrows: Maulana Azad and Muslim Ecological
Thought (Anand Vivek Taneja) 12. Druids and Jhakris: Place-based
Conservation and Conversations Between Spirits and Spirit-workers from
Britain and Nepal (Jonathan Woolley) VI: Afterword 13. Cosmopolitical
Ecologies in Translation (Hildegard Diemberger, Riam Kuyakanon, David
Sneath)