Weston Kath Weston

Animate Planet (eBook, PDF)

Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World

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Produktbeschreibung

In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time. Visceral sensations, she finds, are vital to this process, which yields a new animism in which humans and "e;the environment"e; become thoroughly entangled. In case studies on food, water, energy, and climate from the United States, India, and Japan, Weston approaches the new animism as both a symptom of our times and an analytic with the potential to open paths to new and forgotten ways of living.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373827
• Artikelnr.: 54789510

Autorenporträt

Kath Weston

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. Generosity and Nothing But  viii
Introduction. Animating Intimacies, Reanimating a World  1
Food
1. Biosecurity and Surveillance in the Food Chain  37
Energy
2. The Unwanted Intimacy of Radiation Exposure in Japan  71
Climate Change
3. Climate Change, Slippery on the Skin  105
Water
4. The Greatest Show on Parched Earth  135
Knowing What We KNow, Why Are We Stuck?
5. Political Ecologies of the Precarious  177
Notes  199
References  217
Index  243