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Author Kuyakanon, Riamsara

Title Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (294 p.)
Series Routledge Environmental Humanities Ser
Routledge Environmental Humanities Ser
Contents Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia -- Political ecology -- Cosmopolitics -- Ecologies of practice -- The importance of historical texts -- Volume structure and contents -- Map with location of research site across Asia -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Cosmopolitical landscapes and ecologies of practice -- 1. When lha lu spirits suffer and sometimes fight back: Tibetan cosmopolitics at a time of environmental threats and climate change
Introduction -- Tibetan environmental cosmopolitics according to the dBa' bzhed (the testament of Ba): a paradigmatic historical narrative -- A political theory of cosmology in a 9th century debate -- Chabsi: a Tibetan concept that links water, politics, and religion -- Is lha lu cosmology in the Limi context cosmopolitical? -- Cosmology and rituals of environmental management and activism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2. Territorial cults in Sino-Tibetan borderlands: mobilizing spirits for local identity and environmental protection -- Introduction
Gotang: remembering a sacred landscape -- A kaleidoscope of mountain cults across Eastern Tibet -- Mobilizing local spirits for environmental protection: an Eastern Tibetan cosmopolitical ecology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Up in smoke: cosmopolitical ecologies and the disappearing spirits of the land in Thailand's agricultural air pollution -- The ethnographic site and the (past) involvement of the spirits -- From spirits to fertilizers: the increase of contract farming and the decrease of the spirits -- A cosmopolitical sleight-of-hand -- From one cosmopolitics to another
Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Communities and cosmos: place-based knowledges and practices -- 4. Balancing the sacred landscape: environmental management in Limi, North-Western Nepal -- Introduction -- Local environment and livelihoods -- Weather and climate change -- Deities and spirits in the local landscape -- The local environmental management system -- The responsibilities of the village assembly -- The monastery's multiple roles in the protection of the environment -- Environmental management in the new government structure
Different epistemological understandings of the climate and environment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Tibetan language documents -- 5. 'Mother' memorials and the cosmopolitics of environment in Buryatia -- Social movements and a new moral code -- From 'mother' of the nation to 'grandmother' of the locality -- Nozhii Nuur -- a sacred lake -- The 'mother' of the River Onon -- Changing relations with baigal from 'mothers' to Lusad water-deities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6. Behind the façade: unseen faces of Japan -- Shintō and Buddhism -- Nature worship in Japan
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Spiritual sensitivity
Subject Philosophy of nature-Asia
Sacred space-Asia
Human ecology-Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Diemberger, Hildegard
Sneath, David
ISBN 9781000482300
1000482308