How Nature Works

Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8263-6085-4
Verlag: University of New Mexico Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series

We now live on a planet that is troubled--even overworked--in ways that compel us to reckon with inherited common sense about the relationship between human labor and nonhuman nature. In Paraguay, fast-growing soy plants are displacing both prior crops and people. In Malaysia, dispossessed farmers are training captive orangutans to earn their own meals. In India, a Prized dairy cow suddenly refuses to give more milk. Built from these sorts of scenes and sites, where the ultimate Subjects and agents of work are ambiguous, How Nature Works develops an anthropology of labor that is sharply attuned to the irreversible effects of climate change, extinction, and deforestation. The authors of this volume push ethnographic inquiry beyond the anthropocentric documentation of human work on nature in order to develop a Language for thinking about how all labor is a collective ecological act.

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Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Besky is an assistant professor of anthropology and international and public affairs at Brown University. She is the author of The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India.

Alex Blanchette is an assistant professor of anthropology at Tufts University.