Alternative Socio-ecological Ideas and Practices in a Context of Crisis Optimism about human entanglements with the environment is hard to come by these days. Despite, and because of, great acceleration in scientific knowledge and technology over
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Socialities of Nature Beyond Utopia
Constanza Parra and Casey Walsh
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 229–238 (10 total)
Introduction
Indigenous Resurgence, Decolonization, and Movements for Environmental Justice
Jaskiran Dhillon
community and environment, are a major resource for adapting to climate change, but these have not been used consistently in existing adaptation efforts. Integrating such forms of knowledge with existing practices increases the effectiveness of adaptation
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–5 (5 total)
Altered Landscapes and Filmic Environments
An Account from the 13th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference
Tito R. Quiling Jr.
, sustaining and reestablishing the space are the factors that reveal this process.” The audience absorbs the familiar images or experiences onscreen. However, embodied objects of varying iterations contribute to how environments in films are concretized. On
Landscapes and Races in Early Twentieth-Century Peru
The Travels of José Uriel García and Aurelio Miró Quesada Sosa
Rupert J. M. Medd
participants once they were recognized as being people with their own versions of history to tell, with lifestyles, problems, and specific cultural relations regarding their environments. This further manifested itself in the national literature, for example
Introduction
Ecology and Migration in the Middle East
Soheila Shahshahani
, migration, short-term displacement to coping in adapting to new or changed environment. When humans leave their abodes, their integration in a new environment will entail a time for struggle, a challenge. In this issue of Anthropology of the Middle East
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–5 (5 total)
Eyewitness Accounts during the Putumayo Rubber Boom
Manuel Antonio Mesones Muro—the “Madman of the Marañon River,” Cárlos Oyague y Calderón—the State Engineer, and Roger Casement—“Not of the Real World” Humanitarian
Rupert J. M. Medd and Hélène Guyot
between—old imperialist and monolithic notions of what constituted “the Peruvian” and Peru's environment. 5 Nevertheless, the environment, natural resources, and marginalized peoples were all too often still envisaged within the logic of coloniality. 6
Designing and implementing their own future
Grassroots efforts among the Maya of Guatemala
Allison D. Krogstad
In the Kaqchikel Maya town of San Jorge La Laguna, Guatemala, a fight to reclaim lost land in 1992, though unsuccessful, eventually led the community to become one of the first Maya towns on Lake Atitlán to have a garbage dump, a drainage system, and an environmental education agenda. The efforts of San Jorge, along with the efforts of other communities, have led to the creation of national organizations such as Coordinadora Nacional Indígena y Campesina (CONIC), and have attracted the a ention of foreigners with organizations such as Mayan Families. By striving to improve their immediate environment and learning about the global impact of their actions, the people of San Jorge La Laguna are providing both a physical and an ideological space for themselves in the future.
In Regions and Cohesion
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 75–98 (24 total)
Thule as Frontier
Commons, Contested Resources, and Contact Zones in the High Arctic
Kirsten Hastrup
Greenlandic), who see themselves as placed between disappearing histories and future possibilities, making do with the resources that are available at the moment, but circumscribed by rapidly changing natural and geo-political environments. The concept of
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 1–19 (19 total)
Disarticulated Nomos
The Buryats Against Sacred Lake Baikal on Olkhon Island
Maryam Pirdehghan
conserving their environment – or should even react strongly to the destruction of the sacred nature of their home – due to the nature of this era, of which one aspect was media coverage and the awareness that resulted from it (Rantanen 2006). In other words
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 108–133 (26 total)
Contemporary Megaprojects
An Introduction
Seth Schindler, Simin Fadaee, and Dan Brockington
separates them from high modernist schemes that imbued states and planners with omnipotence to “see” and manipulate their environments ( Scott 1998 ). The centralized nature of planning in the postwar era imposed limits on what could be envisioned and
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 1–8 (8 total)