Contested ecologies : dialogues in the south on nature and knowledge

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Author:

Green, Lesley, 1967-

ISBN:

9780796924285

9780796924292

9780796924308

Physical Description:

xix, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents:

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.

Abstract:

"Contests over knowledge are central to contests over environments. Many of those contests are not just about 'good science' or 'bad science', but over the idea of nature itself: the idea that the nature that science makes known to the world is set apart from 'culture' or 'society', or that nature is comprised of objects -- rivers, fish, soil -- the knowledge of which lies outside social life and democratic politics. Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge focuses on moments in which contests over ecology become moments for rethinking this ecology of knowledge. The chapters cover a wide variety of settings -- from urban Cape Town to indigenous activism in Peru; from Mugabe's Zimbabwe to the Benguela ecosystem fisheries, and include protected area in the Aboriginal territories of northern Australia."--Back cover.

Subject Term:

Human ecology.

Ecology -- Philosophy.

Sustainable living.

Ecology -- Economic aspects.

Added Author:

Green, Lesley, 1967-

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The chapters in this collection contest the framework of knowledge that has deadlocked nature and culture, tradition and modernity, scientific and indigenous, and in doing so makes a case for the value of rethinking knowledge beyond the nature-culture divide.
CONTENTS:
Foreword-- Crain Soudien . Contested Ecologies: Nature and Knowledge-- L. Green . A FIRST INTERVENTION: NATURE VERSUS CULTURE. Notes Towards a Political Ontology of "Environmental" Conflicts-- M. Blaser . Economic Development and Cosmopolitical Re-involvement: From Necessity to Sufficiency-- E. Viveiros de Castro . On Animism, Modernity/Colonialism, and the African Order of Knowledge: Provisional Reflections-- H. Garuba . A SECOND INTERVENTION: SPACE, TIME, LIFE. About "Mariano's Archive": Ecologies of Stories-- M. de la Cadena . The Day-World Hakwri and Its Topologies: On Palikur Alternatives to the Idea of Space-- L. Green . Cultivating Krag, Refreshing Gees: Ecologies of Wellbeing in Namaqualand-- J.B. Cohen . Are Petitioners Makers of Rain? Rains, Worlds, and Survival in Conflict-Torn Buhera, Zimbabwe-- A. Nhemachena . Metaphors for Climate Adaptation from Zimbabwe: Zephaniah Phiri Maseko and the Marriage of Water and Soil-- C. Mabeza . A THIRD INTERVENTION: SCIENCES AND PUBLICS. Engagements Between Disparate Knowledge Traditions: Toward Doing Difference Generatively and in Good Faith-- H. Verran . The Making of Sutherlandia as Medicine--D . Gibson and S. Kilian . Conservation Conversations: Improving the Dialogue Between Fishers and Fisheries Science Along the Benguela Coast-- T-A. Anderson, K. Draper, G. Duggan, L. Green, A. Jarre, J. Rogerson, S. Ragaller, and M. van Zyl . Cape Flats Nature: Rethinking Urban Ecologies-- T. Katzschner . Spotting the Leopard: Fieldwork, Science, and Leopard Behavior-- I. Glenn . Contesting Ecological Collapse: Rapa Nui, the Island at the End of the World-- D. Turnbull . Closing Remarks from the Conclusion of the Contested Ecologies Writing Workshop, September 2011-- E. Viveiros de Castro.