Provincialising Nature Format: Paperback

Institute of Latin American Studies

ISBN 10: 190885720X / ISBN 13: 9781908857200

Published by University of Chicago press, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Provincialising Nature Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190885720X
• ISBN 13: 9781908857200
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Provincialising Nature: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Politics of the Environment in Latin America offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices in the region. This book shows both challenging scenarios and original perspectives that have emerged in Latin America in relation to the globally urgent issues of climate change and the environmental crisis. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and identity and their role in understanding recent and current practices of climate change and environmental policy. The different chapters in this volume contribute to this debate by offering multidisciplinary perspectives on particular aspects of these two frameworks and through a multidirectional outlook that links the local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry across a diverse geographical spectrum.

About the Author

Malayna Raftopoulos holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Liverpool. She is currently an associate fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, and at the Human Rights Consortium, University of London. Her research interests focus on environmental conflicts and discourses, climate change mitigation strategies (in particular REDD+), and indigenous land rights. Forthcoming publications include a co-edited book on natural resource development and human rights in Latin America: state and non-state actors, and a journal special issue on social-environmental conflicts, extractivism, and human rights in Latin America.

Michela Coletta holds a PhD in Latin American History from University College London. She is currently a teaching fellow in Hispanic Studies and Research Events Coordinator at the University of Warwick, and associate fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. Michela specializes in Latin American intellectual and cultural history with a focus on the Southern Cone. A monograph titled Decadent Modernity: Civilisation and “Latinidad” in Spanish America, 1880-1920 will be published by Liverpool University Press. Her publications also include two book chapters, and she is currently co-editing a forthcoming journal special issue on race and geography in Latin American History.