Contested ecologies
Subtitle: dialogues in the south on nature and knowledge
By: edited by Lesley Green
Publisher: HSRC Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cape Town , South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780796924285
Subjects: Human ecology; Ecology; Philosophy; Sustainable living; Economic aspects
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contested ecologies: nature and knowledge / Lesley Green; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Closing remarks from the conclusion of the Contested Ecologies Writing Workshop, September 2011 / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.