Animate planet : making visceral sense of living in a high-tech, ecologically damaged world / Kath Weston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weston, Kath, 1958- author.

Series:

ANIMA (Duke University Press)

ANIMA

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology.

Human geography.

Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time. Visceral sensations, she finds, are vital to this process, which yields a new animism in which humans and "the environment" become thoroughly entangled. In case studies on food, water, energy, and climate from the United States, India, and Japan, Weston approaches the new animism as both a symptom of our times and an analytic with the potential to open paths to new and forgotten ways of living.

Contents:

Biosecurity and surveillance in the food chain

The unwanted intimacy of radiation exposure in Japan

Climate change, slippery on the skin

The greatest show on parched earth

Political ecologies of the precarious.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822373827

0822373823

OCLC:

1139393641