Overview
Provincialising Nature: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Politics of the Environment in Latin America offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices in the region. This book shows both challenging scenarios and original perspectives that have emerged in Latin America in relation to the globally urgent issues of climate change and the environmental crisis. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and identity and their role in understanding recent and current practices of climate change and environmental policy. The different chapters in this volume contribute to this debate by offering multidisciplinary perspectives on particular aspects of these two frameworks and through a multidirectional outlook that links the local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry across a diverse geographical spectrum.
Full Product Details
Author: Michela Coletta ,
Professor Malayna Raftopoulos
Publisher: University of London
Imprint: University of London Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.312kg
ISBN: 9781908857200
ISBN 10: 190885720
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 12 August 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This book crosses boundaries about knowledges and sensitivities on the politics of nature in Latin America. It offers a clear and diverse analysis of issues from climate change to the ontological turn on nature and society, from Pacha Mama to hybrid cultures, showing the impressive resurgence of Latin American political ecology. Eduardo Gudynas, Centro Latinoamericano de Ecologia Social, Uruguay This landmark collection powerfully reveals the mainstreaming of a new environmental politics in Latin America - one that not only recognises the power of social institutions but the agency of nature in human affairs. John Andrew McNeish, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
This book crosses boundaries about knowledges and sensitivities on the politics of nature in Latin America. It offers a clear and diverse analysis of issues from climate change to the ontological turn on nature and society, from Pacha Mama to hybrid cultures, showing the impressive resurgence of Latin American political ecology. Eduardo Gudynas, Centro Latinoamericano de Ecolog�a Social, Uruguay This landmark collection powerfully reveals the mainstreaming of a new environmental politics in Latin America - one that not only recognises the power of social institutions but the agency of nature in human affairs. John Andrew McNeish, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Author Information
Malayna Raftopoulos holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from the University of Liverpool. Currently an associate fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, and the Human Rights Consortium, University of London, her research interests focus on environmental con icts and discourses, climate change mitigation strategies (in particular REDD ), and indigenous land rights. Forthcoming publications include a coedited book on natural resource development and human rights in Latin America. Michela Coletta holds a Ph.D. in Latin American History from University College London. She is currently a teaching fellow in Hispanic Studies, research events coordinator at the University of Warwick, and associate fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. Michela specializesin Latin American intellectual and cultural history with a focus on the Southern Cone. A monograph, Decadent Modernity: Civilisation and ""Latinidad"" in Spanish America, 1880-1920 is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press.
