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  • - Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
    af Michael R. Dove
    1.067,95 kr.

    Scholars rethink the translation of environmental concepts between East and West, particularly ideas of nature and culture; what conservation might mean; and how conservation policy is applied and transformed in the everyday landscapes of Southeast Asia.

  • - The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt
    af Jessica Barnes
    297,95 - 1.030,95 kr.

  • - Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia
    af Raquel Gutierrez Aguilar
    325,95 - 1.111,95 kr.

    In Rhythms of the Pachakuti, Raquel Gutierrez Aguilar documents a series of popular indigenous uprisings against the country's antidemocratic policies, tracing the internal dynamics of such disruptions to consider how motivation and execution incite political change.

  • - The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition
     
    997,95 kr.

    A collection of essays focusing on the implications of the sciences of complexity for environmental politics and practice

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    1.112,95 kr.

    A collection of ethnographies grounded in second-generation political ecology, which focuses on the interchanges between nature and culture, and the local and the global.

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    997,95 kr.

    Focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these representations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders. From diverse disciplines - history, archaeology, sociology, literature, law, and cultural anthropology, this title provides case studies from Latin America, Asia, and Africa.

  • - The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea
    af Sarah Fleming Ives
    310,95 - 1.030,95 kr.

    Exploring the racial and environmental politics behind South Africa's rooibos tea industry to examine heritage-based claims to the indigenous plant by two groups of contested indigeneity: white Afrikaners and "coloured" South Africans.

  • - Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space
    af Ulrich Oslender
    262,95 - 1.076,95 kr.

    In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender examines the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific coast to show how the mutually constituting relationships between residents and their environment informs the political process.

  • - French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops
    af Chaia Heller
    272,95 - 997,95 kr.

    Chaia Heller follows one of France's largest farmers' unions as it joins with peasants internationally to contest the hegemony of genetically modified foods, free trade, and industrial agriculture.

  • - Complicating Conservation in Southeast Asia
     
    272,95 kr.

    Scholars rethink the translation of environmental concepts between East and West, particularly ideas of nature and culture; what conservation might mean; and how conservation policy is applied and transformed in the everyday landscapes of Southeast Asia.

  • - Urban Ecologies and Political Transformation in Kathmandu
    af Anne Rademacher
    308,95 - 952,95 kr.

    This ethnography of a river restoration project in Kathmandu, Nepals capital and one of the fastest-growing cities in Southeast Asia, contributes to the nascent anthropology of urban environments.

  • - Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation
    af Dana E. Powell
    338,95 - 1.076,95 kr.

    In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell takes an historical and ethnographic approach to understanding how a controversial coal power plant slated for development in the Navajo (Dine) Nation was defeated and, in the process of its destruction, generated the conditions for new understandings of indigenous environmentalism to emerge.

  • af Mario Blaser
    322,95 - 997,95 kr.

    An ethnography exploring the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based life projects of the Yshiro indigenous people of the Paraguayan Chaco, and the agendas of scholars and activists.

  • - The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition
     
    335,95 kr.

    A collection of essays focusing on the implications of the sciences of complexity for environmental politics and practice

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    262,95 kr.

    Collects essays that offer important reflections on the image and rhetoric of the rain forest. Attentive to such complexities, this title focuses on specific portrayals of rain forests and the consequences of these representations for both forest inhabitants and outsiders.

  • - Place, Movements, Life, Redes
    af Arturo Escobar
    296,95 - 1.112,95 kr.

    Analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. This book offers an ethnographic account of Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN's) visions, strategies, and practices, and chronicles and analyzes the movement's struggles for autonomy, and territory.

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    362,95 kr.

    A collection of ethnographies grounded in second-generation political ecology, which focuses on the interchanges between nature and culture, and the local and the global.

  • - Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects
    af Arun Agrawal
    333,95 - 997,95 kr.

    An investigation of environmental politics in light of Foucault's work, drawing on and extending work done in feminist environmentalism, political ecology, and common property scholarship, explains why villagers in the Kumaon Himalaya have begun to conserve forests.

  • - Cultural Dimensions of Ecotourism
    af Robert Fletcher
    308,95 - 1.053,95 kr.

    An anthropologist and former rafting guide considers why ecotourists-almost all of whom are white, upper-middle-class Westerners-choose to engage in physically and emotionally strenuous activities such as mountain climbing and white-water rafting.

  • - Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area
    af Jerry K. Jacka
    313,95 - 1.053,95 kr.

    In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's Porgeran highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of the extreme social conflict and environmental degradation brought on by commercial gold mining.

  • - The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea
    af Paige West
    335,95 - 992,95 kr.

    An ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea

  • - Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
    af Arturo Escobar
    264,95 - 1.076,95 kr.

    Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory by arguing for the creation of what he calls "autonomous design"-a design practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth.

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