The anthropology of sustainability : beyond development and progress
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The anthropology of sustainability : beyond development and progress
（Palgrave studies in anthropology of sustainability）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for survival. The concept of sustainability as a product of concern about global environmental degradation, rising social inequalities, and dispossession is presented as a key concept. The contributors explore the opportunities to engage with questions of sustainability and to redefine the concept of sustainability in anthropological terms.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Anthropology of Sustainability2. Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene: A Personal View of What is to be Studied3. A Threat to Holocene Resurgence is a Threat to Livability4. What can Sustainability do for Anthropology?5. Interlude: Perceiving Human Nature through Imagined Non-Human Situations6. "They call it Shangri-La": Sustainable Conservation, or African Enclosures?7. Conservation From Above: Globalising Care for Nature8. Different Knowledge Regimes and some Consequences for "Sustainability"9. The Viability of a High Arctic Hunting Community: A Historical Perspective10. Ebola in Meliandou: Tropes of "Sustainability" at Ground Zero11. Anthropology and The Nature-Society-Development Nexus12. The Gaia Complex: Ethical Challenges to an Anthropocentric "Common Future"13. Interlude: Performing Gaia14. Sustaining the Pluriverse: The Political Ontology of Territorial Struggles in Latin America15. Traditional People, Collectors of Diversity16. Local Struggles with Entropy: Caipora and Other Demons17. Redesigning Money to Curb Globalization: Can We Domesticate the Root of All Evil?
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