The anthropology of sustainability : beyond development and progress Preface Contents Note on Contributors List of Figures Chapter 1: Introduction: The Anthropology of Sustainability: Beyond Development and Progress The Origins of Sustainability Sustainability Today Sustainability Tomorrow The Anthropocene What Sort of World Favours `Sustainability´ What Sustainability Does for Anthropology Making Anthropology Contemporary Again What Is an Anthropology of Sustainability Conclusion Notes References Chapter 2: Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene: A Personal View of What Is to Be Studied References Chapter 3: A Threat to Holocene Resurgence Is a Threat to Livability What Is Resurgence Holocene and Anthropocene: Indicators for the Human Condition Matsutake Enables Holocene Resurgence Ash Dieback and Anthropocene Ecologies of Extinction A Time for Anthropology Notes References Chapter 4: What Can Sustainability Do for Anthropology Why Thinking About Sustainability Is Good for Anthropology What Is It That We Should Sustain The Challenges of Space and Time Misconceived Alterities Conclusion References Chapter 5: Interlude: Perceiving Human Nature Through Imagined Non human Situations Chapter 6: ``They Call It Shangri La´´: Sustainable Conservation or African Enclosures Sustainability: The Global View East African Rangelands: From Global to Local Understandings of Sustainability Tanzania´s Wildlife Management Areas Enduimet Wildlife Management Area Participation Local Voices: Participation Benefits Makame WMA Ecological Outcomes of WMA Local Visions of Sustainability Discussion Notes References Chapter 7: Conservation from Above: Globalising Care for Nature Introduction Conservation from Above or Below The New Conservation from Above A New Conservation from Below References Chapter 8: Different Knowledge Regimes and Some Consequences for `Sustainability´ REDD From Trees to People Defence Mechanism and Repression of Knowledge Norway REDD+ and Unintended Consequences REDD and Situational Repression of Knowledge What Can Be Learnt from Indigenous Knowledge Chewong and Lio Land Rights In Conclusion Notes References Chapter 9: The Viability of a High Arctic Hunting Community: A Historical Perspective Discovery: Meeting a New People Dispersal: Cutting the Nomadic Landscape Dislocation: Assessing Climate Change Dispositions: Sustainability in Unbounded Environments References Chapter 10: Ebola in Meliandou: Tropes of `Sustainability´ at Ground Zero Events in Meliandou `Ebola´ Anxiety in the Land Black Swans and the Anthropology of `Sustainability´ Notes References Chapter 11: Anthropology and the Nature Society Development Nexus Introduction A Project to Combat Social Exclusion Ecologically Agroecology Projects as Worlds Cultivating the Land Sheltering with Nature Inviting Wilderness Back Conclusion Notes References Chapter 12: The Gaia Complex: Ethical Challenges to an Anthropocentric `Common Future´ Introduction A Disappearing Other World A Non anthropocentric Anthropology Putting Theory into Practice Re imagined Communities Conclusion Notes References Chapter 13: Interlude: Performing Gaia Notes Reference Chapter 14: Sustaining the Pluriverse: The Political Ontology of Territorial Struggles in Latin America Introduction: From War to Autonomy and From Unsustainability to Sustainment From Political Ecology to Political Ontology The Political Ontology of Territorial Struggles in Latin America Thinking Feeling with the Earth Conclusion Notes References Chapter 15: Traditional People Collectors of Diversity An Example: Agrobiodiversity Who Produces Domesticated Diversity A Passion for Diversity Putting in a Good Word for Swidden or Shifting Agriculture Conclusion: Producing and Collecting Diversity Notes References Chapter 16: Local Struggles with Entropy: Caipora and Other Demons The Thermodynamic Critique of Development Development as Loss of Diversity Sustainability of Diversity Not Just of Energy Consumption Demons Against the Second Law Caipora Gaia Strategy and Ant People Alliances Another Singularity Notes References Chapter 17: Redesigning Money to Curb Globalization: Can We Domesticate the Root of All Evil Introduction The Relation Between Money Semiotics and Morality The Rationale History and Prospects of Experiments with Alternative Currencies Notes References Index