| Description |
1 online resource (x, 261 pages) |
| Series |
School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series |
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School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 07, 2019) |
| Subject |
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Case studies
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Human ecology -- Case studies
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Environmental degradation -- Case studies
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Environmental economics -- Case studies
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Environmental degradation
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Environmental economics
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Human ecology
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Besky, Sarah, 1981- editor.
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Blanchette, Alex, editor.
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| LC no. |
2019980109 |
| ISBN |
9780826360861 |
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0826360866 |
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