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Author:   Jonathan Paul Marshall (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) ,  Linda Connor (University of Sydney, Australia)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138056619

ISBN 10:   1138056618
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   09 April 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: Ecologies, ontologies and mythologies of possible futures Part 1 Intellectual and speculative engagements with ecological change 1. Towards an anthropology of the future: visions of a future world in the era of climate change 2. The first draft of the future: journalism in the ‘Age of the Anthropocene’ 3. Ecological complexity and the ethics of disorder Part 2 The politics of engagement 4. Futures of governance: ecological challenges and policy myths in tuna Fisheries 5. The work of waste-making: biopolitical labour and the myth of the global city 6. From Sociological Imagination to ‘ecological imagination’: Another Future is Possible Part 3 Environmental change in specific places and cultures 7. Indigenous ontologies and developmentalism: analysis of the National Consultations for the Kiribati Adaptation Program 8. When climate change is not the concern: realities and futures of environmental change in village Nepal 9. Ontologies and ecologies of hardship: past and future governance in the Central Australian arid zone 10. From good meat to endangered species: indigenising nature in Australia’s Western Desert and in Germany’s Ruhr District Part 4 Body and psyche 11. Climate change imaginings and Depth Psychology: reconciling present and future worlds 12. What wrecks reveal 13. Emergent ontologies: natural scepticism, weather certitudes and moral futures Part 5 Technological mythology 14. Official optimism in the face of an uncertain future: Swedish reactions to climate change threats 15. Geo-engineering, imagining and the problem cycle: a cultural complex in action 16. The creation to come: pre-empting the evolution of the bioeconomy

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Jonathan Paul Marshall is a senior research associate for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Linda H. Connor is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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