The Anthropology of Sustainability: Beyond Development and Progress

Book Overview

1. Introduction: The Anthropology of Sustainability2. Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene: A Personal View of What is to be Studied3. A Threat to Holocene Resurgence is a Threat to Livability4. What can Sustainability do for Anthropology?5. Interlude: Perceiving Human Nature through Imagined Non-Human Situations6. "They call it Shangri-La" Sustainable Conservation, or African Enclosures?7. Conservation From Above: Globalising Care for Nature8. Different Knowledge Regimes and some Consequences for "Sustainability"9. The Viability of a High Arctic Hunting Community: A Historical Perspective10. Ebola in Meliandou: Tropes of "Sustainability" at Ground Zero11. Anthropology and The Nature-Society-Development Nexus12. The Gaia Complex: Ethical Challenges to an Anthropocentric "Common Future"13. Interlude: Performing Gaia14. Sustaining the Pluriverse: The Political Ontology of Territorial Struggles in Latin America15. Traditional People, Collectors of Diversity16. Local Struggles with Entropy: Caipora and Other Demons17. Redesigning Money to Curb Globalization: Can We Domesticate the Root of All Evil?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349934410
• ISBN13: 9781349934416
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"