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Reimagining political ecology / edited by Aletta Biersack and James B. Greenberg.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Biersack, Aletta.
Greenberg, James B.
Series:
New ecologies for the twenty-first century.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
New ecologies for the twenty-first century
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Political ecology.
Human ecology.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (441 p.)
Place of Publication:
Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2006]
Language Note:
English
System Details:
text file
PDF
Summary:
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.
Contents:
pt. 1. Beyond modernist ecologies. Equilibrium theory and interdisciplinary borrowing : A comparison of old and new ecological anthropologies / Michael R. Dove
Nature and society in the age of postmodernity / Gisli Palsson
pt. 2. Constructing and appropriating nature. Ecopolitics through ethnography : The cultures of Finland's forest-nature / Eeva Berglund
The political ecology of fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California / James B. Greenberg
"But the young men don't want to farm any more" : Political ecology and consumer culture in Belize / Richard Wilk
Properties of nature, properties of culture : Ownership, recognition, and the politics of nature in a Papua New Guinea society / Joel Robbins
pt. 3. Ethnographies of nature. Progress of the victims : Political ecology in the Peruvian Amazon / Soren Hvalkof
Red river, green war : The politics of place along the Porgera River / Aletta Biersack
Between politics and poetics : Narratives of dispossession in Sarawak, East Malaysia / J. Peter Brosius
pt. 4. Between nature and culture. Rappaport's rose : Structure, agency, and historical contingency in ecological anthropology / J. Stephen Lansing, John Schoenfelder, and Vernon Scarborough.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-406) and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed February 23, 2023)
ISBN:
9786613022400
9780822336853
0822336855
9781283022408
1283022400
OCLC:
1055251862

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