Environmental Anthropology (eBook, PDF)

Future Directions
Redaktion: Kopnina, Helen; Shoreman-Ouimet, Eleanor

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume focuses on the future of environmental anthropology, gathering both established academics and newcomers to discuss the methodological and theoretical themes of future research and outline new theoretical approaches. It explores topics ranging from migration to climate change, food insecurity, indigenous knowledge, the relation between information technology and ecology, and research methods that will soon characterize the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135044138
• Artikelnr.: 39190632

Autorenporträt

Helen Kopnina is Researcher at The Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), University of Amsterdam. Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet is a member of the Anthropology Department at the University of Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Environmental Anthropology of Today and Tomorrow Helen
Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet Pathways: Reflections on the Self and
Society 1. The Mundane Bicycle and the Environmental Virtues of Sustainable
Urban Mobility Luis A. Vivanco 2. Requiem for Roadkill: Death and Denial on
America's Roads Jane Desmond 3. The Future of Environmental Anthropology:
Bringing Smallholder Agriculture Research to the City Shiloh Moates 4.
Future Directions in Environmental Anthropology: Incorporating Ethnography
of Environmental Education Helen Kopnina Health, Risk Assessment and
Prediction 5. Eco-Myopia Meets the Longue Durée: An Information Ecology of
the Increasingly Arid Southwestern U.S.A. David Casagrande and Charles
Peters 6. Sedna's Children: Inuit Elders' Perceptions of Climate Change and
Food Security Ann McElroy 7. Water Wary: Understandings and Concerns about
Water and Health among the Rural Poor of Louisiana Merrill Singer and
Jacqueline M. Evans 8. Environmental Migration: The Future of Anthropology
in Social Vulnerability, Disaster, and Discourse Elizabeth Marino
Solutions-Based Research, Alternative Methodologies and Lifeways 9. Causal
Explanation for Environmental Anthropologists Andrew P. Vayda 10.
Possibilities for a Bioregional Anthropology Joshua Lockyer 11.
Anthropologies of the Future: On the Social Performativity of (Climate)
Forecasts Renzo Taddei 12. Anthropology and Environmental Policy: Joint
Solutions for Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods Susan Charnley and
William H. Durham