Environmental Anthropology

Wie interagieren Menschen mit ihren Umwelten? Wie beeinflussen sie den Verlust und Erhalt der biologischen Vielfalt, den Klimawandel, die Umweltverschmutzung und den Umweltschutz? Das Buch führt Studierende in die Forschung und Praxis der Umweltanthropologie ein, stellt aktuelle Schlüsselkonzepte, Anwendungsbereiche und Debatten vor und beleuchtet zentrale sozial-ökologische Themen.

Autorentext
Franz Krause ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Ethnologie der Uni Köln und am Global South Studies Center.

Klappentext
How do humans interact with their environments? How do their actions influence biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution? And how do differently situated people respond to these transformations in specific ways? This book serves as an introduction to the research and practice of environmental anthropology. It presents current concepts and debates, and highlights key social-ecological issues. Readers will learn about the origins of the field, and about recent approaches to landscapes, infrastructures, Anthropocenes and ontologies. They can delve into environmental-anthropological research on water, plants, animals and human bodies, and are invited to explore issues around climate change, disasters, extractivism, conservation and environmentalism.

Inhalt
Anthropology, Ecology and Environments: an Introduction 8 Why Environmental Anthropology? 8 What Does This Book Offer? 10 Part I Roots 13 1 Cultural Ecology 14 Humans and Environments in Early 20th Century Anthropology 14 What Is Cultural Ecology? 15 Comparative Accounts of Foraging Societies. 19 The Emergence of Ancient Civilisations 21 Cultural Ecology in Modern Complex Societies 23 Alternative Roots of Environmental Anthropology 24 2 Multiple Ecologies 29 From the 1960s: Multiplying Approaches 29 Cultural Materialism 29 Ecological Anthropology 32 Symbolic and Linguistic Ecology 37 Into the 1990s: The New Ecologies 38 Political Ecology 38 Environmental History and Historical Ecology 41 Research into Coupled Human-Environment Systems 44 Local Knowledge . 45 Part II Approaches 51 3 Landscapes 52 A Stroll through the Eifel 52 Landscapes for Transdisciplinary Anthropology 54 Natural and Cultural Landscapes 54 A Very Short History of Landscape 57 Temporal Landscapes 59 Contested Landscapes 62 4 Infrastructures. 67 Of Fences, Waterholes and Wildlife Corridors 67 Infrastructure Approaches, Definitions, Challenges 68 Environmental Infrastructure 73 Multispecies Infrastructure 74 5 Anthropocenes 79 The Anthropocene: Why, What and When?. 79 Anthropological Engagements with the Anthropocene Concept 84 Responsibility in a Patchy Anthropocene 90 6 Ontologies 95 Tirakuna 95 Anthropology and Ontology 96 Beyond the One-World World 96 How Many Worlds Are There? 101 Ontological Politics 103 Part III Foci 109 7 Water 110 Water Wars? 110 Water and Anthropology 111 Social Waters 112 Managing Waters 117 Meaningful Waters 120 8 Plants and Fungi 128 Lawn Culture 128 Planthropology 129 Knowing and Using Plants and Fungi 129 The Politics of Travelling Plants 132 Relating with and through Plants and Fungi 135 Growing Plants and People 139 9 Animals 147 A Self-sacrificing Animal 147 Animals as Sustenance 148 Animals as Symbols and Knowledge 154 The Animal Turn and Multispecies Anthropology 158 Extinctions and Rewilding 161 10 Bodies 166 Kidney Failure or State Failure? 166 Bodies in Their Environments 167 Bodies Beyond the Skin 167 An Embodied Anthropocene 172 Local Biologies, or Becoming Human in Company 178 Part IV Fields 185 11 Climate Change 186 Misunderstanding Rising Sea Levels 186 The Perception of Weather 188 The Influence of Scientific Narratives on Local Knowledge 189 Explanations for a Changing Climate 191 Making Rain 192 Climate Change in Focal Regions of the Globe 194 And What about Europe? 198 12 Disasters 204 An (Un)natural Disaster 204 What Is a Disaster? 205 Hazard, Vulnerability and Resilience 205 Disaster Temporality 209 Illusions of Certainty, Stability and Progress 213 Knowledges and Beliefs 216 13 Extractivism 223 Cursed Resources? 223 Anthropologies of Resource Extraction 224 What Is Extractivism? 224 Resisting Extractivism. 227 Transforming Extraction 230 Waste: Extractivism's Conditions and Afterlives 234 14 Conservation 240 Lands Lost to Conservation 240 What Is Conservation? 241 A View of Global Conservation Efforts 242 The Environmental History of Conservation 243 Community-based Conservation 246 Conservation and Changing Livelihoods 248 Conservation and Socio-political Dynamics. 250 Ecological Effects 253 Emergent Perspectives 254 15 Environmentalisms 261 Global Protest against a Hydropower Project 261 What Is Environmentalism? 262 The Historical Emergence of Western Environmentalism 265 Non-Western Environmentalisms 268 Indigenous Environmentalisms and Decolonisation 277 Glossary 282 Index 287