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Environmental futures / edited by Jessica Barnes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Special issue ; 2016.
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Special issue series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental protection--Planning.
- Environmental protection.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Ecological risk assessment.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2016.
- Summary:
- Environmental Futures Special Issue of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 22, 2016 Concerns about the exploitation of limited resources, optimum development trajectories, and climate change draw attention to the temporal horizons of our environment. Environmental Futures is a curated collection of essays that explores different ways of knowing the future and how these futures shape contemporary social worlds. Encompassing a range of detailed case studies, from ice melting in Antarctica to coal mining in Bangladesh, flooding in Colombia to climate modelling in Egypt, the collection approaches prognosis as a cultural, political, and material process. Through rich ethnography, the papers reveal the ways in which authority and expertise may be reinforced, circumscribed, or contested in the process of making a prediction and its aftermath. Speaking to a matter of topical concern, and to important current debates within anthropology on the production of knowledge and society-environment interactions. Environmental Futures offers novel insights on how and why futures come to be significant in the present. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Prognosis: visions of environmental futures / Andrew S. Mathews Mathews, Andrew S., Jessica Barnes Barnes, Jessica 9
- 2 Sensing the ice: field science, models, and expert intimacy with knowledge / Jessica O'Reilly O'Reilly, Jessica 27
- 3 Uncertainty in the signal: modelling Egypt's water futures / Jessica Barnes Barnes, Jessica 46
- 4 Subsoil abundance and surface absence: a junior mining company and its performance of prognosis in Northwestern Ecuador / David Kneas Kneas, David 67
- 5 Mines and signs: resource and political futures in Bangladesh / Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury Chowdhury, Nusrat Sabina 87
- 6 Chronicle of a disaster foretold: scientific risk assessment, public participation, and the politics of imperilment in Bristol Bay, Alaska / Karen Hebert Hebert, Karen 108
- 7 A doubtful hope: resource affect in a future oil economy / Gisa Weszkalnys Weszkalnys, Gisa 127
- 8 Liquid Oman: oil, water, and causality in Southern Arabia / Mandana Limbert Limbert, Mandana 147
- 9 Prognosis past: the temporal politics of disaster in Colombia / Austin Zeiderman Zeiderman, Austin 163
- 10 Claiming futures / Elizabeth Ferry Ferry, Elizabeth 181.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781119278320
- 1119278325
- OCLC:
- 935983495
- Publisher Number:
- 99975432184
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