Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0796924287 ISBN 13: 9780796924285

Verlag: HSRC Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

The chapters in this collection contest the framework of knowledge that has deadlocked nature and culture, tradition and modernity, scientific and indigenous, and in doing so makes a case for the value of rethinking knowledge beyond the nature-culture divide.

CONTENTS:

• Foreword—Crain Soudien.
• Contested Ecologies: Nature and Knowledge—L. Green.
• A FIRST INTERVENTION: NATURE VERSUS CULTURE.
• Notes Towards a Political Ontology of “Environmental” Conflicts—M. Blaser.
• Economic Development and Cosmopolitical Re-involvement: From Necessity to Sufficiency—E. Viveiros de Castro.
• On Animism, Modernity/Colonialism, and the African Order of Knowledge: Provisional Reflections—H. Garuba.
• A SECOND INTERVENTION: SPACE, TIME, LIFE.
• About “Mariano’s Archive”: Ecologies of Stories—M. de la Cadena.
• The Day-World Hakwri and Its Topologies: On Palikur Alternatives to the Idea of Space—L. Green.
• Cultivating Krag, Refreshing Gees: Ecologies of Wellbeing in Namaqualand—J.B. Cohen.
• Are Petitioners Makers of Rain? Rains, Worlds, and Survival in Conflict-Torn Buhera, Zimbabwe—A. Nhemachena.
• Metaphors for Climate Adaptation from Zimbabwe: Zephaniah Phiri Maseko and the Marriage of Water and Soil—C. Mabeza.
• A THIRD INTERVENTION: SCIENCES AND PUBLICS.
• Engagements Between Disparate Knowledge Traditions: Toward Doing Difference Generatively and in Good Faith—H. Verran.
• The Making of Sutherlandia as Medicine—D. Gibson and S. Kilian.
• Conservation Conversations: Improving the Dialogue Between Fishers and Fisheries Science Along the Benguela Coast—T-A. Anderson, K. Draper, G. Duggan, L. Green, A. Jarre, J. Rogerson, S. Ragaller, and M. van Zyl.
• Cape Flats Nature: Rethinking Urban Ecologies—T. Katzschner.
• Spotting the Leopard: Fieldwork, Science, and Leopard Behavior—I. Glenn.
• Contesting Ecological Collapse: Rapa Nui, the Island at the End of the World—D. Turnbull.
• Closing Remarks from the Conclusion of the Contested Ecologies Writing Workshop, September 2011—E. Viveiros de Castro.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lesley Green is an anthropologist at the University of Cape Town. She is the coauthor of Knowing the Day, Knowing the World and Waramwi: A Cobra Guide.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: HSRC Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0796924287
• ISBN 13: 9780796924285
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284
• Herausgeber: Green Lesley
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