Reimagining Political Ecology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Aletta Biersack, Biersack

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Produktbeschreibung

Reimagining Political Ecology is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political ecology, which retains the Marxist interest in capitalism as a global structure but which is also heavily influenced by poststructuralism, feminism, practice theory, and cultural studies. As these essays illustrate, contemporary political ecology moves beyond binary thinking, focusing instead on the interchanges between nature and culture, the symbolic and the material, and the local and the global.Aletta Biersack's introduction takes stock of where political ecology has been, assesses the field's strengths, and sets forth a bold research agenda for the future. Two essays offer wide-ranging critiques of modernist ecology, with its artificial dichotomy between nature and culture, faith in the scientific management of nature, and related tendency to dismiss local knowledge. The remaining eight essays are case studies of particular constructions and appropriations of nature and the complex politics that come into play regionally, nationally, and internationally when nature is brought within the human sphere. Written by some of the leading thinkers in environmental anthropology, these rich ethnographies are based in locales around the world: in Belize, Papua New Guinea, the Gulf of California, Iceland, Finland, the Peruvian Amazon, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Collectively, they demonstrate that political ecology speaks to concerns shared by geographers, sociologists, political scientists, historians, and anthropologists alike. And they model the kind of work that this volume identifies as the future of political ecology: place-based "e;ethnographies of nature"e; keenly attuned to the conjunctural effects of globalization.Contributors. Eeva Berglund, Aletta Biersack, J. Peter Brosius, Michael R. Dove, James B. Greenberg, Soren Hvalkof, J. Stephen Lansing, Gisli Palsson, Joel Robbins, Vernon L. Scarborough, John W. Schoenfelder, Richard Wilk

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822388142
• Artikelnr.: 54916673

Autorenporträt

Aletta Biersack and James B. Greenberg, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Series ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction / Reimagining Political Ecology Culture/Power/History/Nature /
Aletta Biersack 3
Beyond Modernist Ecologies
Equilibrium Theory and Interdisciplinary Borrowing: A Comparison of Old and
New Ecological Anthropologies / Michael R. Dove 43
Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity / Gisli Palsson 70
Constructing and Appropriating Nature
Ecopolitics through Ethnography: The Cultures of Finland’s Forest-Nature /
Eeva Berglund 97
The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California / James
B. Greenberg 121
"But the Young Men Don’t Want to Farm Any More": Political Ecology and
Consumer Culture in Belize / Richard Wilk 149
Properties of Nature, Properties of Culture: Ownership, Recognition, and
the Politics of Nature in a Papua New Guinea Society / Joel Robbins 171
Ethnographies of Nature
Progress of the Victims: Political Ecology in the Peruvian Amazon / Soren
Hvalkof 195
Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place Along the Porgera River /
Aletta Biersack 233
Between Politics and Poetics: Narratives of Dispossession in Sarawak, East
Malaysia / J. Peter Brosius 281
Between Nature and Culture
Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in
Ecological Anthropology / J. Stephen Lansing, John Schoenfelder, and Vernon
Scarborough 325
Works Cited 359
Contributors 407
Index 409