Ecological Nostalgias
Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals
Published on 12. May 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
206 pages
978-1-80073-908-6 (ISBN)
Description
Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future.
Reviews / Votes
"Explores and exemplifies ethnographically an emerging conceptual framework on ecological nostalgias to better understand the emotional impacts on and responses of people to the environmental crises that beset our world". * Rajindra K. Puri, University of Kent"It is a tour de force in showing what anthropology can contribute to thinking about the global ecological crisis, and why the cultural and political dimensions of this crisis are no less important than the material ones". * Marc Brightman, University of Bologna
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
20 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
307 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80073-908-6 (9781800739086)
DOI
10.3167/9781789208931
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Olivia Ange | David Berliner
Ecological Nostalgias
Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals
E-Book
11/2020
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€24.49
Available for download
Olivia Angé | David Berliner
Ecological Nostalgias
Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals
E-Book
11/2020
1st Edition
Berghahn Books
€24.49
Available for download
Persons
Olivia Ange is a Professor of Anthropology at Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Besides a series of papers, she is the author of Barter and Social Regeneration in the Argentinean Andes (Berghahn, 2018), and co-editor of Anthropology and Nostalgia (Berghahn, 2014).
Content
List of Figures and Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Olivia Ange and David Berliner
Chapter 1. Thinking Through Nostalgia in Anthropologies of the Environment and Ethnographies of Landscape
Roy Ellen
Chapter 2. High Arctic Nostalgia: Thule and the Ecology of Mind
Kirsten Hastrup
Chapter 3. Nostalgic Confessions in the French Cevennes: Politics of Longings in the Neo-Peasants Initiatives
Madeleine Sallustio
Chapter 4. The Nature of Loss: Ecological Nostalgia and Cultural Politics in Amazonia
Casey High
Chapter 5. Ecological Nostalgias and Interspecies Affect in the Highland Potato Fields of Cuzco (Peru)
Olivia Ange
Chapter 6. The Village and the Hamlet in the Mixe Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Nostalgic Commitments to Working and Living Together
Perig Pitrou
Chapter 7. Peaceful Countryside: Ecologies of Longing and the Temporality of Flux in Contemporary Mongolia
Richard D.G. Irvine
Chapter 8. Melt in the Future Subjunctive
Cymene Howe
Afterword
Dominic Boyer
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Olivia Ange and David Berliner
Chapter 1. Thinking Through Nostalgia in Anthropologies of the Environment and Ethnographies of Landscape
Roy Ellen
Chapter 2. High Arctic Nostalgia: Thule and the Ecology of Mind
Kirsten Hastrup
Chapter 3. Nostalgic Confessions in the French Cevennes: Politics of Longings in the Neo-Peasants Initiatives
Madeleine Sallustio
Chapter 4. The Nature of Loss: Ecological Nostalgia and Cultural Politics in Amazonia
Casey High
Chapter 5. Ecological Nostalgias and Interspecies Affect in the Highland Potato Fields of Cuzco (Peru)
Olivia Ange
Chapter 6. The Village and the Hamlet in the Mixe Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Nostalgic Commitments to Working and Living Together
Perig Pitrou
Chapter 7. Peaceful Countryside: Ecologies of Longing and the Temporality of Flux in Contemporary Mongolia
Richard D.G. Irvine
Chapter 8. Melt in the Future Subjunctive
Cymene Howe
Afterword
Dominic Boyer
Index