Ecological Nostalgias: Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals

Author:   Olivia Ange ,  David Berliner
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   26
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9781789208931


Pages:   206
Publication Date:   01 November 2020
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Author:   Olivia Ange ,  David Berliner
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   26
ISBN:  

9781789208931


ISBN 10:   1789208939
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   01 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Maps Acknowledgements Introduction Olivia Ange and David Berliner Chapter 1. Thinking Through Nostalgia in Anthropologies of the Environment and Ethnographies of Landscape Roy Ellen Chapter 2. High Arctic Nostalgia: Thule and the Ecology of Mind Kirsten Hastrup Chapter 3. Nostalgic Confessions in the French Cevennes: Politics of Longings in the Neo-Peasants Initiatives Madeleine Sallustio Chapter 4. The Nature of Loss: Ecological Nostalgia and Cultural Politics in Amazonia Casey High Chapter 5. Ecological Nostalgias and Interspecies Affect in the Highland Potato Fields of Cuzco (Peru) Olivia Ange Chapter 6. The Village and the Hamlet in the Mixe Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Nostalgic Commitments to Working and Living Together Perig Pitrou Chapter 7. Peaceful Countryside: Ecologies of Longing and the Temporality of Flux in Contemporary Mongolia Richard D.G. Irvine Chapter 8. Melt in the Future Subjunctive Cymene Howe Afterword Dominic Boyer Index

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Explores and exemplifies ethnographically an emerging conceptual framework on ecological nostalgias to better understand the emotional impacts on and responses of people to the environmental crises that beset our world . Rajindra K. Puri, University of Kent It is a tour de force in showing what anthropology can contribute to thinking about the global ecological crisis, and why the cultural and political dimensions of this crisis are no less important than the material ones . Marc Brightman, University of Bologna


Explores and exemplifies ethnographically an emerging conceptual framework on ecological nostalgias to better understand the emotional impacts on and responses of people to the environmental crises that beset our world . * Rajindra K. Puri, University of Kent It is a tour de force in showing what anthropology can contribute to thinking about the global ecological crisis, and why the cultural and political dimensions of this crisis are no less important than the material ones . * Marc Brightman, University of Bologna


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Olivia Ange is a Professor of Anthropology at Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Besides a series of papers, she is the author of Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes (Berghahn, 2018), and co-editor of Anthropology and Nostalgia (Berghahn, 2014).

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