The Anthropocene is a volatile and potentially catastrophic age demanding new ways of thinking about relations between humans and the nonhuman world. This book explores how responses to environmental challenges are hampered by a grief for a pristine and certain past, rather than…
The Anthropocene is a volatile and potentially catastrophic age demanding new ways of thinking about relations between humans and the nonhuman world. This book explores how responses to environmental challenges are hampered by a grief for a pristine and certain past, rather than…
Contrary to the common rhetoric that being green is 'easy', household sustainability is rife with contradiction and uncertainty. Households attempting to respond to the challenge to become more sustainable in everyday life face dilemmas on a daily basis when trying to make susta…
The question Chris Gibson and his colleagues answer in this book is simple: "Why is it not easy being green?" In 20 concise, focused and accessible chapters from birthing to dying, from toilets to Christmas they unveil the ambiguities, instabilities and paradoxes of affluent hou…
Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat
by Atchison, Jennifer, Head, Lesley, Gates, Alison
Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat
by Atchison, Jennifer, Head, Lesley, Gates, Alison
Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat
by Atchison, Jennifer, Head, Lesley, Gates, Alison
Theoretically, this book develops new insights by bringing together human geography, biogeography and archaeology to provide a long term perspective on human-wheat relations. Although the relational, more-than-human turn in the social sciences has seen a number of plant-related …
Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat
by Atchison, Jennifer, Head, Lesley, Gates, Alison
Plants are fundamental players in human lives, underpinning our food supply and contributing to the air we breathe, but they are easy to take for granted and have received insufficient attention in the social sciences. This book advances understanding of human-plant relations u…
Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat
by Atchison, Jennifer, Head, Lesley, Gates, Alison
Ingrained: a human bio-geography of wheat
by Atchison, Jennifer, Head, Lesley, Gates, Alison
Ingrained: A Human Bio-geography of Wheat
by Atchison, Jennifer, Head, Lesley, Gates, Alison
