How nature works : rethinking labor on a troubled planet / edited by Sarah Besky and Alex Blanchette.
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TextSeries: School for Advanced Research advanced seminar seriesPublisher: Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press ; Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (x, 261 pages)Content type: - text
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- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Case studies
- Human ecology -- Case studies
- Environmental degradation -- Case studies
- Environmental economics -- Case studies
- Environmental degradation
- Environmental economics
- Human ecology
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Homme -- Influence sur la nature -- Études de cas
- Écologie humaine -- Études de cas
- Environnement -- Dégradation -- Études de cas
- Économie de l'environnement -- Études de cas
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- GF75 .H69 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The ends of work -- Exhaustion and endurance in sick landscapes : cheap tea and the work of monoculture in the Dooars, India / Sarah Besky -- The concentration of killing : soy, labor, and the long green revolution / Kregg Hetherington -- Making monotony : bedsores and other signs of an overworked hog / Alex Blanchette -- Labor struggles -- The job of finding food is a joke : orangutan rehabilitation, work, subsistence, and social relations / Juno Salazar Parreñas -- The heat of work : dissipation, solidarity, and kidney disease in Nicaragua / Alex Nading -- Metabolic relations : Korean red ginseng and the ecologies of modern life / Eleana Kim -- How guinea pigs work : figurations and gastro-politics in Peru / María Elena García -- Industrial materials : labor, landscapes, and the industrial honeybee / Jake Kosek -- Futures of work -- Cultural analysis of microbial worlds / John Hartigan -- Rhapsody in the forest : wild mushrooms and the multispecies multitude / Shiho Satsuka -- Kamadhenu's last stand : on animal refusal to work / Naisargi N. Dave.
The authors of this volume push ethnographic inquiry beyond the anthropocentric documentation of human work on nature in order to develop a language for thinking about how all labor is a collective ecological act.
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