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Informationen zum Autor Ida Fadzillah Leggett is associate professor of anthropology at Middle Tennessee State University. James B. Greenberg is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona. James B. Greenberg is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona. Thomas K. Park is professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona. Angela Storey is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Louisville. Klappentext Humanity’s future may rest on how we deal with climate change, environmental problems, and their impacts on society. Terrestrial Transformations: A Political Ecology Approach to Society and Nature recognizes that such problems have social, political, and cultural contexts, and that politics, money, and power have physical impacts on nature and society that cannot be ignored. This book brings together a set of chapters that provide an overview of the political ecology approach, illustrating its theoretical underpinnings, central concepts, methods, and major interests. The authors examine the political contexts of a broad range of environmental and social problems, drawing attention to the political and economic forces driving environmental and ecological problems, how societies are transformed as they attempt to cope and adapt to a changing nature, and who pays the price. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg Chapter 1. The Anthropocene and other noxious concepts Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg Chapter 2. The Political Ecology of Climate Change James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park Chapter 3. Digital Sensing and Human-Environment Relationships in the Face of Climate Variability in Senegal and Mauritania Thomas K. Park, Aminata Niang and Mamadou Baro Chapter 4. The Political Ecology of Languagelessness of the Southwest North American Region: Case Studies in the Linguistic Commoditization of Mexican Origin People Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez Chapter 5. Political Ecology of Guitars and their Tonewoods James B. Greenberg Chapter 6. Indigenous responses to colonialism in an island state: a geopolitical ecology of Kanaky-New Caledonia Simon Batterbury, Séverine Bouard, and Matthias Kowasch Chapter 7. An Everyday Politics of Access: The Political Ecology of Infrastructure in Cape Town's Informal Settlements Angela Storey Chapter 8. Land Tenu ...
