Penny McCall Howard

Environment, labour and capitalism at sea

'Working the ground' in Scotland

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. -- .

Produktdetails

• New Ethnographies
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781784994143
• ISBN-10: 1784994146
• Artikelnr.: 47878057

Autorenporträt

Penny McCall Howard is National Research Officer for the Maritime Union of Australia and is an Honorary Associate in the Anthropology Department of the University of Sydney

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: A metabolism of labour and environment 1 'Working the
ground' 2 From Wullie's Peak to the Burma: naming places at sea Part II:
Techniques and technologies 3 Techniques to extend the body and its senses
4 From 'where am I?' to 'where is that?' Rethinking navigation Part III:
Capitalism and class 5 'You just can't get a price': the difference
political economy makes 6 Structural violence in ecological systems
Conclusion: labour, class, environments and anthropology Index