Provincialising nature : multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in Latin America / edited by Michela Coletta, Malayna Raftopoulos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coletta, Michela, editor.

Raftopoulos, Malayna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Climatic changes.

Environmental policy--Latin America.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 192 pages) : illustrations, map

Other Title:

Provincialising nature

Place of Publication:

London : University of London Press, 2020.

Summary:

Provincialising Nature: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Politics of the Environment in Latin America offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices in the region. This book shows both challenging scenarios and original perspectives that have emerged in Latin America in relation to the globally urgent issues of climate change and the environmental crisis. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and identity and their role in understanding recent and current practices of climate change and environmental policy. The different chapters in this volume contribute to this debate by offering multidisciplinary perspectives on particular aspects of these two frameworks and through a multidirectional outlook that links the local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry across a diverse geographical spectrum.

Contents:

Whose natures? Whose knowledges? An introduction to epistemic politics and eco-ontologies in Latin America / Michela Coletta and Malayna Raftopoulos

The poetics of plants in Latin American literature / Lesley Wylie

Hybrid traditions: permaculture, plants and the politics of nature in El Salvador / Naomi Milner

Agri-cultural practice and agroecological discourse in the Anthropocene: confronting environmental change and food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean / Graham Woodgate

Brazil and the international politics of climate change: leading by example? / Marieke Riethof

REDD+ in Latin America: promises and challenges / Anthony Hall

Nature, space, identity and resource extraction: paradoxes of discourses around indigeneity and environment in Bolivia / Katinka Weber

The difference indigeneity makes: socio-natures, knowledges and contested policy in Ecuador / Sarah A. Radcliffe.

Notes:

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