Lyons Vital Decomposition

Soil Practitioners and Life Politics
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0920-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten

Kristina M. Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil relations in which she follows state soil scientists and peasant farmers in Colombia's Putumayo region, showing how their relationship with soil is key to caring for the forest and growing non-illicit crops in the face of violence, militarism, and environmental destruction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lyons, Kristina M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Life in the Midst of Poison 1
1. From Aerial Spaces to Litter Layers 10
2. The Theater of Life Is Also a Stage of Death: Beyond Surface Chauvinism 41
3. Partial Alliances among Minor Practices: The "Ellusive" Nature of Colombia's Amazonian Plains 70
4. Decomposition as Life Politics: On Reclaiming and Relaying 105
5. Resonating Farms and Vital Spaces: A Person and His Concepts 137
6. Which Soils? Where Soils? Why Soils? 169
Notes 183
References 197
Index 213

Über Autor(innen)

Kristina M. Lyons is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.