Weston Animate Planet

Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7382-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: ANIMA

Kath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans, animals, and the environment are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weston, Kath

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments. Generosity and Nothing But viii

Introduction. Animating Intimacies, Reanimating a World 1

Food
1. Biosecurity and Surveillance in the Food Chain 37

Energy
2. The Unwanted Intimacy of Radiation Exposure in Japan 71

Climate Change
3. Climate Change, Slippery on the Skin 105

Water
4. The Greatest Show on Parched Earth 135

Knowing What We KNow, Why Are We Stuck?
5. Political Ecologies of the Precarious 177

Notes 199

References 217

Index 243

Über Autor(innen)

Kath Weston is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. A Guggenheim Fellow and two-time winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize, Weston is the author of several books, including Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor; Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age; and Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship.