Environmental anthropology: future directions

by Kopnina, Helen Shoreman-Ouimet, Eleanor

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Title Statements

Full title :Environmental anthropology : future directions / edited by Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet.

Summary

"This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology. Environmental anthropologists are increasingly focusing on self-reflection - not just on themselves and their impacts on environmental research, but also on the reflexive qualities of their subjects, and the extent to which these individuals are questioning their own environmental behavior. Here, contributors confront the very notion of "natural resources" in granting non-human species their subjectivity and arguing for deeper understanding of "nature," and "wilderness" beyond the label of "ecosystem services." By engaging in interdisciplinary efforts, these anthropologists present new ways for their colleagues, subjects, peers and communities to understand the causes of, and alternatives to environmental destruction. This book demonstrates that environmental anthropology has moved beyond the construction of rural, small group theory, entering into a mode of solution-based methodologies and interdisciplinary theories for understanding human-environmental interactions. It is focused on post-rural existence, health and environmental risk assessment, on the realm of alternative actions, and emphasizes the necessary steps towards preventing environmental crisis."--Publisher's description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781135044121, 1135044120, 9780203403341, 0203403347, 9781135044138, 1135044139, 9781299743892, 1299743897
oclc:ocn853455910
LC Classification:GF41
Dewey Decimal:304.2

Introduction : Environmental anthropology of today and tomorrow / Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet -- The mundane bicycle and the environmental virtues of sustainable urban mobility / Luis A. Vivanco -- Requiem for roadkill : death and denial on America's roads / Jane Desmond -- The future of environmental anthropology : bringing smallholder agriculture research to the city / Shiloh Moates -- Future directions in environmental anthropology : incorporating the ethnography of environmental education / Helen Kopnina -- Ecomyopia meets the longue durée : an information ecology of the increasingly arid southwestern United States / David Casagrande and Charles Peters -- Sedna's children : Inuit elders' perceptions of climate change and food security / Ann McElroy -- Water wary : understandings and concerns about water and health among the rural poor of Louisiana / Merrill Singer and Jacqueline M. Evans -- Environmental migration : the future of anthropology in social vulnerability, disaster, and discourse / Elizabeth Marino -- Causal explanation for environmental anthropologists / Andrew P. Vayda -- Possibilities for a bioregional anthropology / Joshua Lockyer -- Anthropologies…

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