The anthropology of sustainability: Beyond development and progress
Brightman, M.; Lewis, J. (Ed.) (2017). The anthropology of sustainability: Beyond development and progress. Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan: 978-1-137-56635-5. XVIII, 316 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56636-2
Part of: Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature: New York. , more
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| Keywords |
Anthropology
Development
Ecology
Sustainability
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| Author keywords |
Social sciences, ecological global environmental degradation, dispossession, Tropes of sustainability, territorial struggles, The Gaia Complex |
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- Brightman, M., editor
- Lewis, J., editor
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| Content |
- Latour, B. (2017). Anthropology at the time of the Anthropocene: A personal view of what is to be studied, in: Brightman, M. et al. The anthropology of sustainability: Beyond development and progress. Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability, : pp. 35-49. https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56636-2_2, more
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| Abstract |
This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for survival. The concept of sustainability as a product of concern about global environmental degradation, rising social inequalities, and dispossession is presented as a key concept. The contributors explore the opportunities to engage with questions of sustainability and to redefine the concept of sustainability in anthropological terms. |
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