Environmental Anthropology - Current issues and fields of engagement

Wie interagieren Menschen mit ihren Umwelten? Wie beeinflussen sie den Verlust und Erhalt der biologischen Vielfalt, den Klimawandel, die Umweltverschmutzung und den Umweltschutz? Das Buch führt Studierende in die Forschung und Praxis der Umweltanthropologie ein, stellt aktuelle Schlüsselkonzepte, Anwendungsbereiche und Debatten vor und beleuchtet zentrale sozial-ökologische Themen.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

Anthropology, Ecology and Environments: an Introduction8Why Environmental Anthropology?8What Does This Book Offer?10Part I Roots131 Cultural Ecology14Humans and Environments in Early 20th Century Anthropology14What Is Cultural Ecology?15Comparative Accounts of Foraging Societies. 19The Emergence of Ancient Civilisations21Cultural Ecology in Modern Complex Societies23Alternative Roots of Environmental Anthropology242 Multiple Ecologies 29From the 1960s: Multiplying Approaches29Cultural Materialism29Ecological Anthropology32Symbolic and Linguistic Ecology37Into the 1990s: The New Ecologies 38Political Ecology38Environmental History and Historical Ecology41Research into Coupled Human-Environment Systems44Local Knowledge .45Part II Approaches513 Landscapes52A Stroll through the Eifel52Landscapes for Transdisciplinary Anthropology54Natural and Cultural Landscapes54A Very Short History of Landscape57Temporal Landscapes59Contested Landscapes624 Infrastructures.67Of Fences, Waterholes and Wildlife Corridors 67Infrastructure - Approaches, Definitions, Challenges68Environmental Infrastructure73Multispecies Infrastructure745 Anthropocenes79The Anthropocene: Why, What and When?.79Anthropological Engagements with the Anthropocene Concept84Responsibility in a Patchy Anthropocene906 Ontologies95Tirakuna95Anthropology and Ontology96Beyond the One-World World96How Many Worlds Are There?101Ontological Politics103Part III Foci1097 Water110Water Wars?110Water and Anthropology111Social Waters112Managing Waters117Meaningful Waters1208 Plants and Fungi128Lawn Culture 128Planthropology129Knowing and Using Plants and Fungi129The Politics of Travelling Plants132Relating with and through Plants and Fungi135Growing Plants and People1399 Animals147A Self-sacrificing Animal147Animals as Sustenance148Animals as Symbols and Knowledge154The Animal Turn and Multispecies Anthropology158Extinctions and Rewilding16110 Bodies166Kidney Failure or State Failure?166Bodies in Their Environments167 Bodies Beyond the Skin167An Embodied Anthropocene172Local Biologies, or Becoming Human in Company178Part IV Fields18511 Climate Change186Misunderstanding Rising Sea Levels186The Perception of Weather188The Influence of Scientific Narratives on Local Knowledge189Explanations for a Changing Climate191Making Rain192Climate Change in Focal Regions of the Globe194And What about Europe?19812 Disasters204An (Un)natural Disaster204What Is a Disaster?205Hazard, Vulnerability and Resilience205Disaster Temporality209Illusions of Certainty, Stability and Progress213Knowledges and Beliefs21613 Extractivism223Cursed Resources?223Anthropologies of Resource Extraction224What Is Extractivism?224Resisting Extractivism.227Transforming Extraction230Waste: Extractivism's Conditions and Afterlives23414 Conservation240Lands Lost to Conservation240What Is Conservation?241A View of Global Conservation Efforts242The Environmental History of Conservation243Community-based Conservation246Conservation and Cha nging Livelihoods248Conservation and Socio-political Dynamics. 250Ecological Effects253Emergent Perspectives25415 Environmentalisms261Global Protest against a Hydropower Project261What Is Environmentalism?262The Historical Emergence of Western Environmentalism265Non-Western Environmentalisms268Indigenous Environmentalisms and Decolonisation277Glossary282Index287