The Ecology of Power
Author: Michael Heckenberger
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780415945981
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Michael Heckenberger
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780415945981
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Michael J. Heckenberger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 1135941653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1884 a community of Brazilians was "discovered" by the Western world. The Ecology of Power examines these indigenous people from the Upper Xingu region, a group who even today are one of the strongest examples of long-term cultural continuity. Drawing upon written and oral history, ethnography, and archaeology, Heckenberger addresses the difficult issues facing anthropologists today as they "uncover" the muted voices of indigenous peoples and provides a fascinating portrait of a unique community of people who have in a way become living cultural artifacts.
Author: Corey Ross
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 0199590419
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a wide-ranging environmental history of late-19th and 20th century European imperialism, relating the expansion of modern empire, global trade, and mass consumption to the momentous ecological shifts they entailed and providing a historical background to the social, political, and environmental issues of the twenty-first century
Author: Pete Newell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-24
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0745664717
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Globalization and the Environment critically explores the actors, politics and processes that govern the relationship between globalization and the environment. Taking key aspects of globalisation in turn - trade, production and finance - the book highlights the relations of power at work that determine whether globalization is managed in a sustainable way and on whose behalf. Each chapter looks in turn at the political ecology of these central pillars of the global economy, reviewing evidence of its impact on diverse ecologies and societies, its governance - the political structures, institutions and policy making processes in place to manage this relationship - and finally efforts to contest and challenge these prevailing approaches. The book makes sense of the relationship between globalisation and the environment using a range of theoretical tools from different disciplines. This helps to place the debate about the compatibility between globalisation and sustainability in an explicitly political and historical context in which it is possible to appreciate the ‘nature’ of interests and power relations that privilege some ways of responding to environmental problems over others in a context of globalisation.
Author: Alf Hornborg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-19
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1136335293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Power and social inequality shape patterns of land use and resource management. This book explores this relationship from different perspectives, illuminating the complexity of interactions between human societies and nature. Most of the contributors use the perspective of "political ecology" as a point of departure, recognizing that human relations to the environment and human social relations are not separate phenomena but inextricably intertwined. What makes this volume unique is that it sets this approach in a trans-disciplinary, global, and historical framework.
Author: Michael J. Heckenberger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1135941661
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the indigenous people discovered in Brazil in 1884, drawing from written and oral history, ethnography, and archaeology.
Author: Carol Carpenter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780429324659
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines theories and ethnographies related to the anthropology of power in conservation. Conservation thought and practice is power laden--conservation thought is powerfully shaped by the history of ideas of nature and its relation to people, and conservation interventions govern and affect peoples and ecologies. This book argues that being able to think deeply, particularly about power, improves conservation policy-making and practice. Political ecology is by far the most well-known and well-published approach to thinking about power in conservation. This book analyzes the relatively neglected but robust anthropology of conservation literature on politics and power outside political ecology, especially literature rooted in Foucault. It is intended to make four of Foucault's concepts of power accessible, concepts that are most used in the anthropology of conservation: the power of discourses, discipline and governmentality, subject formation, and neoliberal governmentality. The important ethnographic literature that these concepts have stimulated is also examined. Together, theory and ethnography underpin our emerging understanding of a new, Anthropocene-shaped world. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, environmental anthropology, and political ecology, as well as conservation practitioners and policy-makers.
Author: Alf Hornborg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-19
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1136335285
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Power and social inequality shape patterns of land use and resource management. This book explores this relationship from different perspectives, illuminating the complexity of interactions between human societies and nature. Most of the contributors use the perspective of "political ecology" as a point of departure, recognizing that human relations to the environment and human social relations are not separate phenomena but inextricably intertwined. What makes this volume unique is that it sets this approach in a trans-disciplinary, global, and historical framework.
Author: Joachim Radkau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-02-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0521851297
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Environmental history, the author argues, is ultimately the history of human hopes and fears.
Author: Didi Pershouse
Publisher:
Published: 2015-12-10
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780692613030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What can Cuban doctors, innovative ranchers in Saskatchewan, and the microbiome teach us about how to care for people and the Earth at the same time? In this richly layered book, Didi Pershouse takes us on a fast-moving, sharp-witted journey through her own life: from growing up with the neurosurgeon who accidentally discovered the seat of memory in the brain, to working in a smoke-filled office at New York magazine, to her career as an innovative acupuncturist in Vermont, and on to a passion for close-knit communities, grazing cows, and soil restoration as solutions to much of what ails us.Along the way, she unfolds a surprising new take on the story of our time: how the germ theory of disease joined with a profit-based economy, and unwittingly led to a "sterilization" of medicine, agriculture, and even our social lives. This 150-year detour has brought about the near destruction of our climate as well as a great forgetting of the power of connection.By documenting a scientific understanding of the intelligence of the whole, Pershouse nudges us awake with a hopeful view and shows us how to reclaim the rich, "fertile" lives we are meant for.