Biersack / Greenberg / Escobar Reimagining Political Ecology

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8814-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten

Reihe: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biersack, Aletta

Greenberg, James B.

Escobar, Arturo

Rocheleau, Dianne

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dove, Michael R.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction / Reimagining Political Ecology Culture/Power/History/Nature / Aletta Biersack 3

Beyond Modernist Ecologies

Equilibrium Theory and Interdisciplinary Borrowing: A Comparison of Old and New Ecological Anthropologies / Michael R. Dove 43

Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity / Gisli Palsson 70

Constructing and Appropriating Nature

Ecopolitics through Ethnography: The Cultures of Finland’s Forest-Nature / Eeva Berglund 97

The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California / James B. Greenberg 121

“But the Young Men Don’t Want to Farm Any More”: Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize / Richard Wilk 149

Properties of Nature, Properties of Culture: Ownership, Recognition, and the Politics of Nature in a Papua New Guinea Society / Joel Robbins 171

Ethnographies of Nature

Progress of the Victims: Political Ecology in the Peruvian Amazon / Soren Hvalkof 195

Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place Along the Porgera River / Aletta Biersack 233

Between Politics and Poetics: Narratives of Dispossession in Sarawak, East Malaysia / J. Peter Brosius 281

Between Nature and Culture

Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology / J. Stephen Lansing, John Schoenfelder, and Vernon Scarborough 325

Works Cited 359

Contributors 407

Index 409

Über Autor(innen)

Aletta Biersack is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is the editor of Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands and Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology.James B. Greenberg is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Professor at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology. He is the author of Blood Ties: Life and Violence in Rural Mexico and Santiago’s Sword: Chatino Peasant Religion and Economics.