Kath Weston

Animate Planet

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Kath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans, animals, and the environment are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them.

Produktdetails

• ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362326
• ISBN-10: 0822362325
• Artikelnr.: 44521776

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