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Forthcoming Pb 2025 Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development
Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)
The second edition of this remarkable book updates the immense advances in policy and soft international law with regards to the rights of mobile indigenous peoples in conservation.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Forthcoming February 2025
Representations of “Japanese Nature”
A Historical Overview
Ohnuki-Tierney, E.
“Nature” as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that “the pristine nature” is “out there.” This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as pristine into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for “seasons”.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Forthcoming February 2025
Sentient Ecologies
Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape
Coțofană, A. & Kuran, H. (eds)
Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published October 2024
Living on a Time Bomb
Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community
Schöneich, S.
Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Forthcoming December 2024
Risky Futures
Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North
Ulturgasheva, O. & Bodenhorn, B. (eds)
Examining the intersections between environmental conditions and geopolitical tensions, this book brings together a unique combination of authors who are local practitioners and international researchers, and considers the situations of environmental calamity and socio-economic risks faced by small populations.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published March 2024
Environing Empire
Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa
Kalb, M.
Between the infamous Benguela Current and the Namib Desert, nature significantly effected the progression of German imperialism and the creation of German Southwest Africa. Environing Empire reveals the environmental infrastructures that defined not only the culture of German colonial entanglements, but the fantasy that drove Lebensraum during the Second Reich.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
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Published July 2024
Arctic Abstractive Industry
Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North
Mason, A. (ed)
Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published March 2022
Indigenous Resurgence
Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice
Dhillon, J.
Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements for environmental justice, Indigenous Resurgence positions environmental justice within historical, social, political, and economic contexts.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology Colonial History
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Published September 2024
Engaging Environments in Tonga
Cultivating Beauty and Nurturing Relations in a Changing World
Perminow, A. A.
On March 11, 2011, a tsunami warning was issued for Tonga in Polynesia. On the low and small island of Kotu, people were unperturbed in the face of pending catastrophe. The book is an ethnography of the relationship between people and their environment based on fieldwork over three decades.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published July 2024
Animals, Plants and Afterimages
The Art and Science of Representing Extinction
Bienvenue, V. & Chare, N. (eds)
From quaggas to thylacine to dinosaurs, Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in media, art, literature and elsewhere, crossing academic boundaries to explore how portrayals of disappeared species embody cultural assumptions.
Subjects: Media Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2022
Cooling Down
Local Responses to Global Climate Change
Hoffman, S. M., Eriksen, T. H., & Mendes, P. (eds)
Climate change is a slowly advancing crisis sweeping over the planet and affecting different habitats in strikingly diverse ways. While nations have signed treaties and implemented policies, most actual climate change assessments, adaptations, and countermeasures take place at the local level. This book portrays the diversity of explanations and remedies as expressed at the community level.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies
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Published April 2024
Times of History, Times of Nature
Temporalization and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
Ekstrom, A. & Bergwik, S. (eds)
Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.
Subjects: History (General) Environmental Studies (General) Media Studies
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Published February 2024
The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate
Ethnographic Contributions to the Climate Change Debate
Sillitoe, P. (ed)
While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which natural scientists and policy makers have dominated thus far.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Urban Studies
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Published August 2021
Contemporary Megaprojects
Organization, Vision, and Resistance in the 21st Century
Schindler, S., Fadaere, S., Brockington, D. (eds)
Contemporary “megaprojects” have evolved from the centralized, modernist projects undertaken in the past. With case studies ranging from mega-plantations in Southeast Asia to sports events, Contemporary Megaprojects explores the increasing ambition and pervasiveness of these projects, as well as their significant impact on both society and the environment.
Subjects: Development Studies Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Forthcoming February 2025
The Russian Cold
Histories of Ice, Frost, and Snow
Herzberg, J., Renner, A., & Schierle, I. (eds)
Cold has long been a fixture of Russian identity both within and beyond the nation, even as the ongoing effects of climate change complicate its meaning and cultural salience. The Russian Cold assembles fascinating new contributions from a variety of scholarly traditions, offering new perspectives on how to understand this mainstay of Russian culture and history.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
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Published March 2024
Constructing Risk
Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment
Bender, S. O.
Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies are trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published May 2023
Delta Life
Exploring Dynamic Environments where Rivers Meet the Sea
Krause, F. & Harris, M. (eds)
Proposing a series of innovative steps towards better understanding human lives at the interstices of water and land, this volume includes eight ethnographies from deltas around the world. The book presents ‘delta life’ with intimate descriptions of the predicaments, imaginations and activities of delta inhabitants.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published June 2023
Sovereign Forces
Everyday Challenges to Environmental Governance in Latin America
McNeish, J.-A.
Sovereignty is a significant force regarding the ownership, use, protection and management of natural resources. By placing an emphasis on the complex intertwined relationship between natural resources and diverse claims to resource sovereignty, this book reveals the backstory of contemporary resource contestations in Latin America and their positioning within a more extensive history of extraction in the region.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published June 2023
Ethnographies of Power
A Political Anthropology of Energy
Loloum, T., Abram, S., & Ortar, N. (eds)
Energetic infrastructures are crucial to political organization. They shape the contours of states and international bodies, as well as corporations and communities, framing their material existence and their fears and idealisations of the future. Ethnographies of Power brings together ethnographic studies of contemporary entanglements of energy and political power.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
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Published November 2024
Risk on the Table
Food Production, Health, and the Environment
Creager, A. N. H. & Gaudilière, J.-P. (eds)
From the proliferation of synthetic additives to the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the chapters in Risk on the Table zero in on key historical cases in North America and Europe that illuminate the history of food safety, highlighting the powerful tension that exists between policymakers’ decisions and cultural notions of “pure” food.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present Food & Nutrition
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Published October 2023
Lands of the Future
Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa
Gabbert, E. C., Gebresenbet, F., Galaty, J. G., & Schlee, G. (eds)
Rangeland, forests and riverine landscapes of pastoral communities in Eastern Africa are increasingly under threat. Abetted by states who think that outsiders can better use the lands than the people who have lived there for centuries, outside commercial interests have displaced indigenous dwellers from pastoral territories. This volume presents case studies from Eastern Africa.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Development Studies Mobility Studies Environmental Studies (General)
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Published May 2023
Ecological Nostalgias
Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals
Angé, O. & Berliner, D. (eds)
Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General) Memory Studies
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Published March 2023
Going Forward by Looking Back
Archaeological Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Crisis, Response, and Collapse
Riede, F. & Sheets, P. (eds)
Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people locate into hazardous places. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This heritage of past disasters serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptions to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impacts, and facilitate recoveries.
Subjects: Archaeology Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published August 2023
Birds of Passage
Hunting and Conservation in Malta
Falzon, M.-A.
Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork in Malta, this book traces the complex interactions between hunters, birds and the landscapes they inhabit, as well as the dynamics and politics of bird conservation. Birds of Passage looks at the practice and meaning of hunting in a specific context, and raises broader questions about human-wildlife interactions and the uncertain outcomes of conservation.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published November 2024
Beyond Wild and Tame
Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape
Oehler, A. C.
Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy. It is an ethnography intended to help us reinvent our relations with the earth in unpredictable times.
Subject: Environmental Studies (General)
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Published October 2019
Disaster Upon Disaster
Exploring the Gap Between Knowledge, Policy and Practice
Hoffman, S. M. & Barrios, R. E. (eds)
A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern. Disaster Upon Disaster illuminates the numerous disjunctions between the suppositions, realities, agendas, and executions in the field and advances solutions and the matter of outcomes.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
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Forthcoming December 2024
Water, Life, and Profit
Fluid Economies and Cultures of Niamey, Niger
Keough, S. B. & Youngstedt, S. M
Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger. Keough and Youngstedt offer new insights into the lived experiences of gender, ethnicity, class, and spatial structure in Niamey’s water economies today.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2022
Hazardous Chemicals
Agents of Risk and Change, 1800-2000
Homburg, E. & Vaupel, E. (eds)
Covering a host of both notorious and little-known substances, the chapters in this collection investigate the emergence of specific toxic, pathogenic, carcinogenic, and ecologically harmful chemicals as well as the scientific, cultural and legislative responses they have prompted over the past two hundred years.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Forthcoming June 2025
Planning for the Planet
Environmental Expertise and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1960–1980
Schleper, S.
In the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern not only led to widespread calls for new policies, but also created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise by the likes of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. This book explores how conservation experts confronted new challenges tied to rival scientific approaches, Cold War politics, decolonization, and more.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2022
At Home on the Waves
Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today
King, T. J. & Robinson, G. (eds)
This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and archaeological research – much of it with an explicit Ingoldian approach – on a wide range of geographical areas and historical periods.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Archaeology Environmental Studies (General)
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Forthcoming August 2025
Ice and Snow in the Cold War
Histories of Extreme Climatic Environments
Herzberg, J., Kehrt, C., & Torma, F. (eds)
This fascinating volume demonstrates that regions such as Alaska, the polar landscapes, and the cold areas of the Soviet periphery were of no small importance during the Cold War. Through histories of these extremely cold environments, this volume makes a novel intervention in Cold War historiography, one whose global and transnational approach undermines the simple opposition of “East” and “West.”
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
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Published December 2021
Changes in the Air
Hurricanes in New Orleans from 1718 to the Present
Rohland, E.
Changes in the Air looks at New Orleans and its changing cultural responses to hurricanes over three centuries, carefully exploring the complex interplay of sociopolitical, economic, legal, and cultural factors in the development or stagnation of adaptive practices.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Urban Studies
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Published September 2021
Taking on Technocracy
Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present
Augustine, D. L.
Taking on Technocracy addresses changing attitudes towards nuclear energy in the age of global warming. The German decision to abandon nuclear power is placed in a historical context, including popularization of science, new social movements, media, policing, gender, and the history of emotions.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
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Published March 2018
Global Sustainability and Communities of Practice
Maida, C. A. & Beck, S, (eds)
Using case-based and theoretical chapters that examine rural and urban communities of practice, this volume illustrates how participatory researchers and students as well as policy and community leaders find ways to engage with the broader public when it comes to global sustainability research and practice. Collaboration between experts and the public is vital for effective community engagement aimed at improving the lives of the most vulnerable in society, whether at the local or global level.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published May 2019
A Living Past
Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Soluri, J., Leal, C., & Pádua, J. A. (eds)
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is no longer in its infancy. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past gives a transnational and thematically diverse survey of historical developments since the nineteenth century.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present
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Published March 2023
Managing Northern Europe's Forests
Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology
Oosthoek, K. J. & Hölzl, R. (eds)
Eleven chapters, organized regionally, explore the origins of state forestry policy in Northern Europe from the early modern period to the present. Topics include fundamental policy aims, the functioning and organisations of forestry, forest management, wood supply, regulations, forest statistics, wood depletion, growing stock, forest conservation, and landscape protection.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century
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Forthcoming April 2025
Island Historical Ecology
Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean
Siegel, P. (ed)
Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural intervention, focusing on selected islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. This volume goes on to compare these ecologies with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands, placing the Caribbean into a larger context of island historical ecology.
Subjects: Archaeology Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2019
Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia
Transitioning to an Alternative World System
Baer, H. A.
As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have ignited the search for an alternative to capitalism. Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia outlines the urgent need to reevaluate the current system, and replace it with one capable of mobilizing people globally to prevent on-going human socio-economic, environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Political and Economic Anthropology Anthropology (General)
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Published January 2023
Footprints in Paradise
Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa
Murray, A. E.
In Okinawa, ecotourism promises to provide employment for a dwindling population of rural youth while preserving the natural environment and bolstering regional pride. Footprints in Paradise explores how sense of place in Okinawa is transformed as language, landscapes, and wildlife are reconstituted as treasured and vulnerable resources.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Travel and Tourism Environmental Studies (General)
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Published June 2019
Indigeneity and the Sacred
Indigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas
Sarmiento, F. & Hitchner, S. (eds)
This important contribution presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation of sacred natural sites in the Americas. The book explores how struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reformed as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Heritage Studies
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Published June 2021
Wolf Conflicts
A Sociological Study
Skogen, K., Krange, O., & Figari, H.
Making a comeback in Northern Europe and North America, wolf populations cause conflicts by affecting the livelihoods of rural peoples. However, their arrivals also become embedded in more general societal tensions. Wolf Conflicts reveals how conflicts over land use and conservation intertwine with patterns of hegemony and resistance in modern societies.
Subjects: Sociology Environmental Studies (General)
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Published February 2020
Understanding Conflicts about Wildlife
A Biosocial Approach
Hill, C. M., Webber, A. D. & Priston, N. E. C. (eds)
Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, deeper analysis reveals that these conflicts are often better understood as people-people conflicts. Understanding Conflicts About Wildlife unites academics and practitioners to consider the political and social dimensions of ‘human-wildlife conflicts’.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published October 2018
Border Aesthetics
Concepts and Intersections
Schimanski, J. & Wolfe, S. F. (eds)
The field of border studies has analyzed the legal, geographical, and historical aspects of borders extensively, but such studies have hardly exhausted their conceptual fertility. Organized around six key ideas—ecology, imaginary, in/visibility, palimpsest, sovereignty and waiting—the interlocking essays collected here provide theoretical starting points for an aesthetic understanding of borders.
Subjects: Literary Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2019
International Organizations and Environmental Protection
Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
Kaiser, W. & Meyer, J.-H. (eds)
Environmental issues transcend national boundaries, and thus they have been a particular focus for international organizations for over a century. This volume is the first to comprehensively explore the environmental activities of regional bodies, professional communities, the United Nations, NGOs, and other international organizations during the twentieth century.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2022
The Forest People without a Forest
Development Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon
Lueong, G. M.
The Forest People without a Forest explores how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. These interventions raise paradoxes of belonging for the Baka, and are often targeted toward competing and contradictory goals.
Subjects: Development Studies Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published October 2016
Trees, Knots, and Outriggers
Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring
Damon, F. H.
Trees, Knots and Outriggers (Kaynen Muyuw) is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Frederick H. Damon and his attention to cultural adaptations to the environment in Melanesia.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published February 2020
Life as a Hunt
Thresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape
Marks, S. A.
The landscape of Zambia’s central Luangwa Valley has been crafted over centuries by the Valley Bisa who live there. Stuart Marks explores an emergent dissonance with the inconvenient conventions and myths of conservationists, administrators and philanthropists who seek to intervene in Africa’s environmental and wildlife crises on new terms and with technical means.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published June 2019
In the Name of the Great Work
Stalin's Plan for the Transformation of Nature and its Impact in Eastern Europe
Olšáková, D. (ed)
Following Stalin’s lead, the newly communist states of Eastern Europe pursued a total “transformation of nature” in the 1940s and 1950s intended to improve agricultural outputs. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, exploring their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Environmental Studies (General)
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Published September 2016
Contextualizing Disaster
Button, G. V. & Schuller, M. (eds)
Contextualizing Disaster argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a mistake to think of disasters as isolated or discrete occurrences.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Applied Anthropology
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Published June 2019
The Nature of German Imperialism
Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa
Gissibl, B.
This is the first book-length study analyzing the origins of Tanzania’s wildlife conservation under German colonial rule. It examines the shift of wildlife policies from exploitation to preservation. By situating East Africa’s conservation in a global context, The Nature of German Imperialism shows how colonial policy helped to shape international conservationist efforts.
Subjects: Colonial History Environmental Studies (General)
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Published April 2021
Disrupted Landscapes
State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania
Dorondel, S.
The fall of the Soviet Union led not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the landscape itself. This study focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2022
Transactions with the World
Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood
O'Brien, A.
One of the less explored dimensions of the “New Hollywood” canon of the 1960s and 1970s has been its profound environmental sensibility. This engaging study examines how a number of factors made the era such a vividly “grounded” cinematic moment.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Environmental Studies (General)
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Published January 2023
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
Knörr, J. & Kohl, C. (eds)
For centuries, Africa’s Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the world engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. This book examines how such encounters have continued into the present day, identifying the disruptions and continuities in social phenomena that have resulted.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Colonial History
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Published March 2019
Cycling and Recycling
Histories of Sustainable Practices
Oldenziel, R. & Trischler, H. (eds)
In recent years, activists and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability, and waste recycling and bicycles both exemplify this development. This series of fascinating case studies traces the twin histories of biking and recycling, providing valuable context for today’s policy challenges.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Transport Studies
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Published February 2020
Ecological Migrants
The Relocation of China's Ewenki Reindeer Herders
Xie, Y.
This ethnography details changing Ewenki ways of life brought China’s recent ecological migration policies, which aim to preserve and restore the badly damaged ecologies of western China. This ethnography examines these policies and their effects on Aoluguya Ewenki hunters, who have been relocated.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published July 2017
Waterworlds
Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Hastrup, K. & Hastrup. F. (eds)
In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors analyse the union of water and social lives, thereby challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their subjects and responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published April 2020
Fault Lines
Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy
Parrinello, G.
Although earthquakes can have disastrous effects on human lives and environments, they can also significantly influence urban development. This book follows the history of two Italian seismic disasters — the 1908 Messina earthquake and the 1968 earthquake in the Belice Valley, Sicily — exploring plans preceding the destruction and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published February 2020
Reclaiming the Forest
The Ewenki Reindeer Herders of Aoluguya
Kolås, Å. & Xie, Y. (eds)
The reindeer herders of Aoluguya, China, are a group of former hunters who today see themselves as “keepers of reindeer.” To some, their future seems troubled, but this volume’s literary and academic contributions instead focus on the present, as the Ewenki attempt to reclaim their forest lifestyle and develop new forest livelihoods.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published April 2017
Nimby Is Beautiful
Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World
Hager, C. & Haddad, M. A. (eds)
NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) protests are often criticized as parochial and short-lived, generating no lasting influence on broader processes related to environmental politics. This volume offers a different perspective. Drawing on cases from around the globe, it demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Sociology
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Published April 2017
Beyond the Lens of Conservation
Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another
Keller, E.
This ethnography examines how the cooperation between a national park in Madagascar and a Swiss zoo is perceived by ordinary people at either end. One view focuses on power and history, the other on morality and progress. Nature conservation therefore widens the gap between people in the North and South.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published August 2016
Hunters, Predators and Prey
Inuit Perceptions of Animals
Laugrand, F. & Oosten, J.
Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. Laugrand and Oosten examine the roles of animals from the small and non-social, such as the raven, to those considered fellow hunters, the bear and the dog. “Prey par excellence,” or caribou, seals, and the whale, are discussed in conjunction with the renewal of whale hunting.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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Published April 2017
Sustainable Development
An Appraisal from the Gulf Region
Sillitoe, P. (ed)
With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world’s resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century. Bringing together university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf, Europe, and North America this volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region and beyond, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Geography
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Published January 2016
Managing the Unknown
Essays on Environmental Ignorance
Uekötter, F. & Lübken, U. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General)
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Published January 2016
Powerless Science?
Science and Politics in a Toxic World
Boudia, S. & Jas, N. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Medical Anthropology
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Published March 2015
The Social Life of Water
Wagner J. R. (ed)
“This book fills an important niche on water related issues in anthropology by focusing on social and cultural manifestations of water management, use, and conflict… The organization is appropriate and effective.” · Benedict J. Colombi, American Indian Studies Program, University of Arizona
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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eBook available
Published February 2015
Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia
Bioregionalism, Permaculture, and Ecovillages
Lockyer, J. & Veteto, J. R. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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eBook available
Published March 2015
Civilizing Nature
National Parks in Global Historical Perspective
Gissibl B., Höhler, S. & Kupper, P. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History (General) Heritage Studies
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eBook available
Published March 2015
Landscapes Beyond Land
Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives
Árnason, A., Ellison, N., Vergunst, J. & Whitehouse, A. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2015
Ogata-Mura
Sowing Dissent and Reclaiming Identity in a Japanese Farming Village
Wood, D. C.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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eBook available
Published February 2014
Animism in Rainforest and Tundra
Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary Amazonia and Siberia
Brightman, M., Grotti, V. E., & Ulturgasheva, O. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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eBook available
Published January 2015
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America
Natures, Subjects and Struggles
Latta, A. & Wittman, H. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2010
Hunters in the Barrens
The Naskapi on the Edge of the White Man's World
Henriksen, G.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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eBook available
Published March 2012
Plants, Health and Healing
On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology
Hsu, E. & Harris, S. (eds)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Environmental Studies (General)
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eBook available
Published February 2014
Urban Pollution
Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Dürr, E. & Jaffe, R. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Urban Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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eBook available
Published March 2013
Ethnobotany in the New Europe
People, Health and Wild Plant Resources
Pardo-de-Santayana, M., Pieroni, A. & Puri, R. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology
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eBook available
Published March 2012
Landscape Ethnoecology
Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space
Johnson, L. M. & Hunn, E. S. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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eBook available
Published December 2012
Virtualism, Governance and Practice
Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation
Carrier, J. C. & West, P. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General) Applied Anthropology
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eBook available
Published November 2011
Unveiling the Whale
Discourses on Whales and Whaling
Kalland, A.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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eBook available
Published June 2013
Gardening the World
Agency, Identity and the Ownership of Water
Strang, V.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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eBook available
Published February 2012
Landscape, Process and Power
Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge
Heckler, S. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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eBook available
Published December 2012
Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia
Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives
Alexiades, M. N. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Mobility Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2010
Fishers and Scientists in Modern Turkey
The Management of Natural Resources, Knowledge and Identity on the Eastern Black Sea Coast
Knudsen, S.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2021
I Dreamed the Animals
Kaniuekutat: The Life of an Innu Hunter
Henriksen, G.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General)
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eBook available
Published September 2011
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany
Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Markham, W. T.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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eBook available
Published August 2012
Nature of the Miracle Years
Conservation in West Germany, 1945-1975
Chaney, S.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2009
Culture and the Changing Environment
Uncertainty, Cognition, and Risk Management in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Casimir, M. J. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Theory and Methodology
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Published March 2011
Coping with Distances
Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies
Baerenholdt, J. O.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Environmental Studies (General) Travel and Tourism
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Published October 2009
Traveling Cultures and Plants
The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations
Pieroni, A. & Vandebroek, I. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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eBook available
Published March 2011
Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies
Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia
Ellen, R. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2011
Sustainability and Communities of Place
Maida, C. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2010
Driving Germany
The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930-1970
Zeller, T.
Subjects: Transport Studies History: 20th Century to Present Mobility Studies Environmental Studies (General)
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Published January 2007
Making Peace with the Earth
What Future for the Human Species and the Planet
Bindé, J. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published March 2009
Local Science Vs Global Science
Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development
Sillitoe, P. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2006
Tarzan Was an Eco-tourist
...and Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure
Vivanco, L. & Gordon, R. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General) Literary Studies
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Published December 2007
Green Encounters
Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica
Vivanco, L. A.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Development Studies
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eBook available
Published December 2007
The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe
Bochniarz, Z. & Cohen G. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2005
The Logic of Environmentalism
Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality
Argyrou, V.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2004
Nature Knowledge
Ethnoscience, Cognition, and Utility
Sanga, G. & Ortalli, G. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 2004
Cultivating Arctic Landscapes
Knowing and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North
Anderson, D. G. & Nuttall, M. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2003
The Environment in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies Environmental Studies (General)
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Published December 2005
A Venetian Island
Environment, History and Change in Burano
Sciama, L. D.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published April 2003
Water for People – Water for Life
United Nations
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published March 2005
Troubles with Turtles
Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island
Theodossopoulos, D.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
Pb -
eBook available
Published November 2004
Ethnographies of Conservation
Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege
Anderson, D. & Berglund, E. (eds)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General)
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Published February 2004
The Culture of German Environmentalism
Anxieties, Visions, Realities
Goodbody, A.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2002
Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples
Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development
Chatty, D. & Colchester, M. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Environmental Studies (General) Development Studies
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Published February 2002
The Shaping of Environmental Policy in France
Szarka, J.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Sociology
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Published December 2001
Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth?
Women, Spirituality and the Environment
Low, A. & Tremayne, S. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published October 2002
Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World
Conflict, Resistance, and Self-Determination
Biesele, M., Hitchcock, R. & Schweitzer, P. (eds)
Subjects: Development Studies Environmental Studies (General) Peace and Conflict Studies
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Published November 1996
The Link with Nature and Divine Meditations in Asia
Formoso, B. (ed)
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion
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