Contested ecologies: nature and knowledge / Lesley Green -- A first intervention: nature versus culture. Notes towards a political ontology of 'environmental' conflicts / Mario Blaser ; Economic development and cosmopolitical re-involvement: from necessity to sufficiency / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ; On animinism, modernity/colonialism, and the African order of knowledge: provisional reflections / Harry Garuba -- A second intervention: space, time, life. About 'Mariano's Archive': ecologies of stories / Marisol de la Cadena ; The day-world hawkri and its topologies: on Palikur alternatives to the idea of space / Lesley Green ; Cultivating krag, refreshing gees: ecologies of wellbeing in Namaqualand / Joshua B. Cohen ; Are petitioners makers of rain? Rains, worlds and survival in conflict-torn Buhera, Zimbabwe / Artwell Nhemachena ; Metaphors for climate adaptation from Zimbabwe: Zephaniah Phiri Maseko and the marriage of water and soil / Christopher Mabeza -- A third intervention: sciences and publics. Engagements between disparate knowledge traditions: toward doing difference generatively and in good faith / Helen Verran ; The making of Sutherlandia as medicine / Diana Gibson, Sanja Kilian ; Conservation conversations: improving the dialogue between fishers and fisheries science along the Benguela Coast / Tarryn-Anne Anderson ... [et al.] ; Cape Flats nature: rethinking urban ecologies / Tania Katzschner ; Spotting the leopard: fieldwork, science and leopard behaviour / Ian Glenn ; Contesting ecological collapse: Rapa Nui, the island at the end of the world / David Turnbull -- Closing remarks from the conclusion of the Contested Ecologies Writing Workshop, September 2011 / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.