General and Theoretical: The Asiatic Mode of Production: Sources, Development and Critique in the Writings of Karl Marx. Lawrence Krader
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 79, Heft 3, S. 657-657
ISSN: 1548-1433
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 79, Heft 3, S. 657-657
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Yale agrarian studies series
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable. This book offers novel insights on this contemporary challenge, drawing together the state-of-the-art thinking in anthropology. Approaching climate change as a nexus of nature, culture, science, politics, and belief, the book reveals nuanced ways of understanding the relationships between society and climate, science and the state, certainty and uncertainty, global and local that are manifested in climate change debates. The contributors address three major areas of inquiry: how climate change issues have been framed in previous times compared to the present; how knowledge about climate change and its impacts is produced and interpreted by different groups; and how imagination plays a role in shaping conceptions of climate change
In an era when pressing environmental problems make collaboration across the divide between sciences and arts and humanities essential, this book presents the results of a collaborative analysis by an anthropologist and a physicist of four key junctures between science, society, and environment. The first focuses on the systemic bias in science in favour of studying esoteric subjects as distinct from the mundane subjects of everyday life; the second is a study of the fire-climax grasslands of Southeast Asia, especially those dominated by Imperata cylindrica (sword grass); the third reworks the idea of 'moral economy', applying it to relations between environment and society; and the fourth focuses on the evolution of the global discourse of the culpability and responsibility of climate change. The volume concludes with the insights of an interdisciplinary perspective for the natural and social science of sustainability. It argues that failures of conservation and development must be viewed systemically, and that mundane topics are no less complex than the more esoteric subjects of science. The book addresses a current blind spot within the academic research community to focusing attention on the seemingly common and mundane beliefs and practices that ultimately play the central role in the human interaction with the environment. This book will benefit students and scholars from a number of different academic disciplines, including conservation and environment studies, development studies, studies of global environmental change, anthropology, geography, sociology, politics, and science and technology studies.
In: Blackwell anthologies in social & cultural anthropology 10
In: Dove, Michael R. And Bambang Hudayana. 2008. The View from the Volcano: An Appreciation of the Work of Piers Blaikie. GeoForum 39 (2): 736-746.
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 619-639
ISSN: 0305-750X
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In: Dove, Michael R. and Mohammad H. Khan. 1995. Competing Constructions of Calamity: The Case of the May 1991 Bangladesh Cyclone. Population and Environment: Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 16(5), 445-471.
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In: Population and development review, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 771
ISSN: 1728-4457
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 538
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 756
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 619-639
In: Dove, Michael R. and Daniel M. Kammen. 2001. Vernacular Models of Development: An Analysis of Indonesia Under the 'New Order'. World Development 29(4): 619-639.
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In: Population and environment: a journal of interdisciplinary studies, Band 16, Heft 5, S. 445-471
ISSN: 1573-7810
In: Contemporary Southeast Asia, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 41-52