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Synopsis
Focusing on moments in which contests over ecology become moments for rethinking the ecology of knowledge, the papers in this volume engage contests over nature in a settings ranging from urban South Africa to the Peruvian Andes; from the Benguela ecosystem fisheries to northern Australia.
Setting leading scholars from across the south in dialogue with emerging researchers, the book sets up a rich dialogue in the south on the anthropology of the knowledge, organised as three parts, each of which offers an intervention in current dialogues on ecology, nature and the idea of the environment. The first intervention explores political ontology: the idea that the world comprises 'nature' and 'culture'. The second pursues the differences in accounts of space, time and what it means to be alive. The third considers the complexities of the relationship between governance, science, and publics.
Contents
Foreword - Crain Soudien
1 Contested ecologies: Nature and knowledge - Lesley Green
a first intervention: 'nature' versus 'culture'
2 Notes towards a political ontology of 'environmental' conflicts - Mario Blaser
3 Economic development and cosmopolitical re-involvement: From necessity to sufficiency - Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
4 On animism, modernity/colonialism, and the African order of knowledge: Provisional reflections - Harry Garuba
a second intervention: space, time, life
5 About 'Mariano's Archive': Ecologies of stories - Marisol de la Cadena
6 The day-world hawkri and its topologies: On Palikur alternatives to the idea of space - Lesley Green
7 Cultivating krag, refreshing gees: Ecologies of wellbeing in Namaqualand - Joshua B. Cohen
8 Are petitioners makers of rain? Rains, worlds and survival in conflict-torn Buhera, Zimbabwe - Artwell Nhemachena
9 Metaphors for climate adaptation from Zimbabwe: Zephaniah Phiri Maseko and the marriage of water and soil - Christopher Mabeza
a third intervention: sciences and publics
10 Engagements between disparate knowledge traditions: Toward doing difference generatively and in good faith - Helen Verran
11 The making of Sutherlandia as medicine - Diana Gibson and Sanjay Killian
12 Conservation conversations: Improving the dialogue between fishers and fisheries science along the Benguela Coast - Tarryn-Anne Anderson, Kelsey Draper, Greg Duggan, Lesley Green, Astrid Jarre, Jennifer Rogerson, Sven Ragaller and Marieke van Zyl
13 Cape Flats Nature: Rethinking urban ecologies - Tania Katzschner
14 Spotting the leopard: Fieldwork, science and leopard behaviour - Ian Glenn
15 Contesting ecological collapse: Rapa Nui, the island at the end of the world - David Turnbull
Closing remarks from the Contested Ecologies Workshop, September 2011 - Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
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From the Back Cover
'Contested Ecologies could be read as an enlightened report on the status of knowledge worldwide. Not only does it demonstrate, with a powerful collective voice from the Global South that will be difficult to ignore, that differences between knowledges ineluctably imply differences among forms of making the world, it actually succeeds in exemplifying paths for genuine and constructive conversations across seemingly intractable divides. The volume offers the first concrete demonstration that it is indeed possible to go beyond the alleged rift between nature and culture, moving us closer towards the elusive goal of healing our planet through new knowledge formations. At a time when the academy seems mired in training students to perform well in so-called 'globalization' (understood as market success), this courageous volume represents a breath of fresh air in the debates over how to re-imagine the university as a central player in the construction of a new ethics of life.'
-- Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
'Extraordinarily interesting ... A new anthropology is afoot. Contested Ecologies sets out a new approach beyond the boundaries of modernity as we know it. Here different versions of nature are at play, and a "political ontology" has emerged to grasp this problem. Cosmopolitics comes into its own in this collection.'
-- Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz
About the Author
Lesley Green is an anthropologist at the University of Cape Town, where she leads the Environmental Humanities Initiative. She is the coauthor of Knowing the Day, Knowing the World (Arizona University Press, 2013) and Waramwi: A Cobra Grande (IEPE, Sao Paulo, 2013)
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- PublisherHSRC Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0796924287
- ISBN 13 9780796924285
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages284
- EditorGreen Lesley
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