Caroline Gatt

An Ethnography of Global Environmentalism (eBook, ePUB)

Becoming Friends of the Earth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This account provides an anthropological study of global environmental activism, via an in-depth ethnographic study of a transnational environmentalist federation, Friends of the Earth International. Key to this global scope is the analysis of activists' aspirations for and experiments in models for intercultural and inclusive decision-making.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317975045
• Artikelnr.: 56958076

Autorenporträt

Caroline Gatt is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. Her research interests include environmentalism, post-relativist approaches to human diversity, laboratory theatre and design anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Environmentalism, globality and anthropology in the common
world 2. Proposing an Imaginary: Fields of Forces, Vectors and Direction of
Attention 3. Field Methods, Emplacement and Scale: Where is Friends of the
Earth International? 4. Chronological history and organic time: Being
Introduced to FoEI 5. Striving for an exemplary life :Becoming an
Environmentalist 6. Rhythms of globality: Developing a sense of belonging
to FoEI 7. Communication Technologies and Presence: Being in touch in FoEI
8. The effectiveness of structure: Vectors at work in a transnational
federation 9. Experiments with political form and process 10. Epilogue: An
Experiment Appendix