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Informationen zum Autor Aletta Biersack is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is the editor of Papuan Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands and Clio in Oceania: Toward a Historical Anthropology.James B. Greenberg is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Professor at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology. He is the author of Blood Ties: Life and Violence in Rural Mexico and Santiago’s Sword: Chatino Peasant Religion and Economics. Klappentext "Political ecologists have helped configure the fields of environmental governance and environmental justice. This thoughtful, insight-filled collection helps readers rethink some of the main concerns of political ecology. Organized in complementary counterpoint, the essays use evidence from around the world to make fundamental contributions toward a reconsideration of nature/culture relationships. Scholars from both disciplinary and interdisciplinary formations will discover the need to consult and use this volume."--Arun Agrawal, author of "Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects" Zusammenfassung A collection of ethnographies grounded in second-generation political ecology! which focuses on the interchanges between nature and culture! and the local and the global. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction / Reimagining Political Ecology Culture/Power/History/Nature / Aletta Biersack 3 Beyond Modernist Ecologies Equilibrium Theory and Interdisciplinary Borrowing: A Comparison of Old and New Ecological Anthropologies / Michael R. Dove 43 Nature and Society in the Age of Postmodernity / Gisli Palsson 70 Constructing and Appropriating Nature Ecopolitics through Ethnography: The Cultures of Finland’s Forest-Nature / Eeva Berglund 97 The Political Ecology of Fisheries in the Upper Gulf of California / James B. Greenberg 121 “But the Young Men Don’t Want to Farm Any More”: Political Ecology and Consumer Culture in Belize / Richard Wilk 149 Properties of Nature, Properties of Culture: Ownership, Recognition, and the Politics of Nature in a Papua New Guinea Society / Joel Robbins 171 Ethnographies of Nature Progress of the Victims: Political Ecology in the Peruvian Amazon / Soren Hvalkof 195 Red River, Green War: The Politics of Place Along the Porgera River / Aletta Biersack 233 Between Politics and Poetics: Narratives of Dispossession in Sarawak, East Malaysia / J. Peter Brosius 281 Between Nature and Culture Rappaport’s Rose: Structure, Agency, and Historical Contingency in Ecological Anthropology / J. Stephen Lansing, John Schoenfelder, and Vernon Scarborough 325 Works Cited 359 Contributors 407 Index 409...
