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This book illustrates the ways in which today's environmental anthropologists are constructing new paradigms for understanding the multiplicity of players, pressures, and ecologies in every environment, and the value of cultural knowledge of landscapes.
The Handbook provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary topics in environmental anthropology and thorough discussions on the current state and prospective future of the field in seven key sections. As the contributions to this Handbook demonstrate, the subfield of environmental anthropology is responding to cultural adaptations and responses to environmental changes in multiple and complex ways. As a discipline concerned primarily with human-environment interaction, environmental anthropologists recognize that we are now working within a pressure cooker of rapid environmental damage that is forcing behavioural and often cultural changes around the world. As we see in the breadth of topics presented in this volume, these environmental challenges have inspired renewed foci on traditional topics such as food procurement, ethnobiology, and spiritual ecology; and a broad new range of subjects, such as resilience, nonhuman rights, architectural anthropology, industrialism, and education. The second edition includes greater coverage of topics that have grown increasingly pertinent not only to the field of environmental anthropology, but to peoples, places, and species around the world since the publication of the original volume. To this end, the new edition includes chapters dedicated to illustrating the role of environmental anthropologists in the struggle for environmental justice and elucidating instances of environmental racism, climate change, the effects of the global pandemic, and much more.
This comprehensive, holistically oriented second edition is an ideal resource to not only inform students and scholars on the history and challenges of environmental anthropology today, but to prepare them to apply the anthropological skill set to address challenges of justice, health, conservation, and wellbeing in a climate changed world.
List of contents
Section One: Environmental Anthropology: A Brief History 1. Introduction
by Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, Jessie Fredlund, and Helen Kopnina 2. History and Scope of Environmental Anthropology
by Eduardo Brondizio, Ryan Adams, and Stefano Fiorini 3. Environmental Anthropology: An Experimental History
by Leslie Sponsel 4. Ethnobiology and the New Environmental Anthropology
by Eugene Anderson 5. Puerto Rican Environmental Anthropology: A Brief Overview
by Carlos G. García Quijano and Hilda Lloréns
Section Two: Ways of Knowing: Theory and Theoretical Debates in Environmental Anthropology 6. Historical Ecology: Agency in Human-Environment Interaction
by Lauren Dodaro and Dustin Reuther 7. The Guitar and the Tree: On Environmental Anthropology and Enviromateriality
by José E. Martínez-Reyes 8. What's Ontology Got to Do with it? On the Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Environmental Anthropology
by Sian Sullivan 9. Excavating Environmental Anthropology's Challenging Foundations
by David W Kidner
Section Three: Ways of Knowing and Learning: Methods and Emerging Approaches in Environmental Anthropology 10. All Our Relationships: Settler Translations of Indigenous Relations with Plants
by Rob Efird 11. Drawing Insights about Place: Spatial Representations of the Environment in Hawai`i
by Bryan Wee, Benjamin Crawford, Amy DePierre 12. Towards a Methodological Framework in Architectural Anthropology for Indigenous Wellbeing
by Angela Kreutz, Paul Memmott and Jenine Godwin-Thompson 13. Spiritual Ecology, Sacred Places, and Biodiversity Conservation
by Leslie Sponsel14. Cognition and Cultural Modeling: Understanding the World around Us and Each Other by Kimberly Kirner
Section Four: Environment and the Climate Crisis 15. Taking Responsibility for Climate Change: On Sustainable Consumption and Neoliberal Environmental Governance
by Cynthia Isenhour, Brieanne Berry, Erin Victor, and Chyanne Yoder 16. On Dying Glaciers: Losing Ice and Finding a Response
by Cymene Howe 17. Subsurface Convergence Zones and the Net-Zero Future: Routing a carbon dioxide emissions pipeline by Mark Nuttall 18. Disasters and their Impact: A Fundamental Feature of Environment
by Susanna M. Hoffman 19. Indigenous Australians and Climate Change: Impacts, Indigenous voices, and the Need for a Collaborative Radical Response
by Hans A. Baer 20. Grounding the Sky: Embodied Health and Expert Knowledge during Climate Crisis
by Evan A. Singer, Manon Lefèvre, and Michael R. Dove.
Section Five: Environmental Justice 21. Critical Environmental Justice: Anthropological Extensions
by Sydney Giacalone and Myles Lennon 22. Engaging with Disaster: The Critical Contributions of Environmental Anthropologists and Ethnographic Data Collection in Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness-Equity
by Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet 23. The Puerto Rican Local Food Movement: Transformation After Disaster
by Ryan Adams 24. Elite Pollution, Environmental Justice, and the making of Environmental Health
by Merrill Singer 25. Refining Relationships: How an Unlikely Community-Scientist Partnership Led to a Historic Environmental Justice Victory
by Nicholas Shapiro, Jackie James, Liz Barry, Shaun Crawford, Jennifer Pusatier, Adele Henderson, Timothy Logsdon, Joyce Hogenkamp, and Tom Gentile
Section Six: Environmental Ethics and Conservation 26. Authenticity as Indigenous Modernity in Namibian Ecotourism: Two Contradictions of Hai¿¿om and Xung Development under Neoliberal Capitalism
by Stasja Koot 7. A Perfect Fit for the Indigenous 'Slot'? Batwa Identity Politics Meets Global Advocacy Agendas in Kahuzi-Biega National Park
by Fergus O'Leary Simpson, Lionel Bisimwa Matabaro, and Vedaste Cituli Alinirihu 28. Settler Ecologies and their Decolonization: Three En-Visions of Ecological Futures
by Irus Braverman 29. Demilitarizing the Environment: Fire Suppression, Counterinsurgency, and Karuk Cultural Perpetuation
by Bruno Seraphin and Leaf Hillman
Section Seven: Beyond Human: Multispecies Ethnography, Ecological Justice, and Making Space for More-than-Human Perspectives. 30. Digitized and Datafied Wildlife: Environmental Anthropology and Technology by Emily Wanderer 31. The Anthropology of Plants: Toward a Botany Otherwise by Colin Hoag 32. Rights of Nature: A Critical Dialogue between Law and Environmental Anthropology
by Dirk Hanschel and Annette Mehlhorn 33. Justice for All: Inconvenient Truths and Reconciliation in Human-Non-Numan Relations
by Veronica Strang
About the author
Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut (UConn), USA; and the Associate Director of UConn's Institute of Environment and Energy.
Jessie Fredlund is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York (SUNY), New Paltz, USA.
Helen Kopnina (PhD Cambridge University, 2002) coordinates the Sustainable Business program at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.
