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Kath Weston is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. A Guggenheim Fellow and two-time winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize, Weston is the author of several books, including Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor;¿Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age;¿and Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship.
List of contents
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
About the author
Kath Weston is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. A Guggenheim Fellow and two-time winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize, Weston is the author of several books, including Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor; Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age; and Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship.
Summary
Kath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans, animals, and the environment are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them.
