Ecological Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities
Redaktion: Müller, Simone M.; Twelbeck, Kirsten; Schmidt, Matthias

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the conflicts, issues and tensions associated with today's ecological transformation processes from an environmental humanities perspective. Of interest to researchers, academics and students studying environmental humanities, the social sciences and environment sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040300794
• Artikelnr.: 72245563

Autorenporträt

Simone M. Müller is DFG Heisenberg Professor of Global Environmental History and Environmental Humanities at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Matthias Schmidt is Professor of Human Geography and Transformation Research at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Kirsten Twelbeck is an American Studies scholar and coordinates the international doctoral program ReThinking Environment, a cooperation between the University of Augsburg and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Conceptual Facets 1. Ecological Transformation and the
Implications of Spatial Scale Its Historical Legacy 3. Transformation
and/of 'Colonial Tropes.' Latin American Narrative Palimpsests 4.
Interactions of Efficiency, Consistency, and Sufficiency across Levels:
Assessing Innovation Tensions through the Lens of Paradox Theory 5. Toxic
Commons and the Politics of Ambivalence: Re-imagining Toxic Legacy Sites
Part 2: Ambivalences in Practice 6. In Praise of Ambivalence: Reflections
on Experiences of Pollution and Remediation 7. Global Waste: On the
Ambivalence of Wealth, Health, and Contradictory Development Models 8.
Farming the Wind: Aeolian Politics and the Sacred Desertscapes (Orans) of
Rajasthan 9. Global South Ambivalences of Transformation? Literature,
Extractive Capitalism, and Literary Militancy in West Africa 10. Mining for
a Low-Carbon Economy? Articulations by the Mexican Corporate Sector 11.
Integrating Labor, Environment, and Climate? (Dis)connections in the
Spanish and Portuguese Energy Decarbonizations 12. Bioplastics Versus
Conventional Plastics: An Analysis from a Sociological, Ethical, and
Educational Perspective 13. Against all Odds: Managing Ambivalence in
Philippe Squarzoni's Graphic Novel Climate Changed Concluding Remarks and
Survey of the Contributions