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Informationen zum Autor Penny McCall Howard is National Research Officer for the Maritime Union of Australia and is an Honorary Associate in the Anthropology Department of the University of Sydney Klappentext This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. Zusammenfassung This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: A metabolism of labour and environment 1 'Working the ground'2 From Wullie's Peak to the Burma: naming places at sea Part II: Techniques and technologies 3 Techniques to extend the body and its senses4 From 'where am I?' to 'where is that?' Rethinking navigation Part III: Capitalism and class 5 'You just can't get a price': the difference political economy makes6 Structural violence in ecological systemsConclusion: labour, class, environments and anthropologyIndex
