Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia - Hierarchies, Conflicts, and Coexistence

This book uses SEA ethnography to provide new insights into human-environmental relationships & ecologies, with theoretical innovations& will interest pol-ecology, environmental anthropology, sustainability & pol.sci, development std., human geography & ecology, SEA & Asian std.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction. Plural Ecologies: Beyond ontology and political ecology in Southeast Asia; Chapter 2. Ontologies of possibility: Future-oriented indeterminacy in Southeast Asian animism; Chapter 3. Conflicting ways of dealing with invisible human-like beings: Including – Neglecting – Ignoring; Chapter 4. Home of spirits and loggers: Plural perspectives on the forest in Indonesian Borneo; Chapter 5. Animism and indigenous movements in Indonesia; Chapter 6. Negotiating plural ecologies of adat land in Indonesia; Chapter 7. Ecological disturbances: Negotiating indigeneity and access to land in Indonesia; Chapter 8. Entrepreneurial ecologies in a Javanese fishery; Chapter 9. The reinvention of moral ecologies in Indonesia; Chapter 10. "Talking" trees: Urban ecologies in late socialist Hanoi; Chapter 11. A positive other? Comprehending the hope in animism’s overcoming the capitalist socio-ecological crisis

About the author

Timo Duile is a researcher at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Bonn, Germany.
Kristina Großmann is a professor at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Bonn, Germany.
Michaela Haug is a substitute professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Freiburg, Germany.
Guido Sprenger is a professor at the Institute of Anthropology, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Summary

This book uses SEA ethnography to provide new insights into human–environmental relationships & ecologies, with theoretical innovations& will interest pol-ecology, environmental anthropology, sustainability & pol.sci, development std., human geography & ecology, SEA & Asian std.

Product details

• Authors: Timo (University of Bonn Duile
• Assisted by: Timo Duile (Editor), Kristina Großmann (Editor), Michaela Haug (Editor), Haug Michaela (Editor), Guido Sprenger (Editor), Sprenger Guido (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032436340
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243634-0
• No. of pages: 213
• Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religion: general, South East Asia, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Tribal religions, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General