Climate, Capitalism and Communities (eBook, ePUB)

An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating
Redaktion: Stensrud, Astrid B.; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland

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Produktbeschreibung

Until now, the growing body of work on environmental anthropology has largely ignored the unavoidable impact of global capitalism on the environment and the extent to which capital itself is a key driver of climate change.

Climate, Capitalism and Communities focuses explicitly on that nexus, examining the injustices and inequalities - as well as the activist responses - that have arisen as a result, and the contradictions between the imperatives of exponential economic growth, and those of environmental sustainability, and society as a whole.

Bringing an innovative, ethnographic toolkit to bear on a crisis that is at once global and highly localised, the authors shift attention away from the consequences of climate change, to a focus on the social relations and power structures that continue to prevent effective action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786804877
• Artikelnr.: 57495487

Autorenporträt

Astrid B. Stensrud is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, where she is part of the Overheating research project. She has published articles on climate change, neoliberalism and water politics in the journals, Ethos, History and Anthropology, Latin American Perspectives and Latin American Research Review, as well as chapters in edited volumes, Waterworlds: Anthropology in Fluid Environments (2016) and Identity Destabilised (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface
1. Introduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Economic and
Environmental Crises in an Overheated World - Astrid B. Stensrud and Thomas
Hylland Eriksen
2. The Political Economy of the Great Acceleration, or, How I Learned to
Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Anna Tsing
3. A Community on the Brink of Extinction? Ecological Crises and Ruined
Landscapes in Northwest Greenland - Kirsten Hastrup
4. Sea Ice, Climate and Resources: The Changing Nature of Hunting Along
Greenland's Northwest Coast - Mark Nuttall
5. Volatility: Understanding Global Capitalism and Climate Change
Vulnerability in Mongolia - Andrei Marin
6. The Dark Side of Progress: The Intersections of Climate Change,
Neoliberalism and Modernity in Peru - Astrid B. Stensrud
7. Puzzling Pieces and Situated Urgencies of Climate Change and
Globalisation in the High Arctic: Three Stories from Qaanaaq - Astrid
Oberborbeck Andersen and Janne Flora
8. Counting: Health Emergencies and the Constitution of Extractive Natures
in Northern Loreto, Peru - María A. Guzmán-Gallegos
9. Expansive Capitalism, Climate Change and Global Climate Mitigation
Regimes: A Triple Burden on Forest Peoples in the Global South - Harold
Wilhite and Cecilia G. Salinas
10. Climate Change, Oceanic Sovereignties and Maritime Economies in the
Pacific - Edvard Hviding
11. Islands of Hope and Despair: Scaling the Collapses and the Collapse of
Scales - Frank Sejersen
12. Using a Glacier Website to Promote Action and Build Community: Engaged
Anthropology in the Digital Age - Ben Orlove, Kerry Milch and Laura
Uguccioni
Notes on Contributors
Index