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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14296/0420.9781908857811

Number of pages: 216

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Publication date: 12 August 2016

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Provincialising nature: multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in Latin America

Michela Coletta (Editor), Malayna Raftopoulos (Editor)

Published in association with: Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Provincialising Nature: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Politics of the Environment in Latin America offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices in the region. This book shows both challenging scenarios and original perspectives that have emerged in Latin America in relation to the globally urgent issues of climate change and the environmental crisis. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and identity and their role in understanding recent and current practices of climate change and environmental policy. The different chapters in this volume contribute to this debate by offering multidisciplinary perspectives on particular aspects of these two frameworks and through a multidirectional outlook that links the local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry across a diverse geographical spectrum.

1. Whose natures? Whose knowledges? An introduction to epistemic politics and eco-ontologies in Latin America Michela Coletta and Malayna Raftopoulos
2. The poetics of plants in Latin American literature Lesley Wylie
3. Hybrid traditions: permaculture, plants and the politics of nature in El Salvador Naomi Millner
4. Agri-cultural practice and agroecological discourse in the Anthropocene: confronting environmental change and food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean Graham Woodgate
5. Brazil and the international politics of climate change: leading by example? Marieke Riethof
6. REDD+ in Latin America: promises and challenges Anthony Hall
7. Nature, space, identity and resource extraction: paradoxes of discourses around indigeneity and environment in Bolivia Katinka Weber
8. The difference indigeneity makes: socio-natures, knowledges and contested policy in Ecuador Sarah A. Radcliffe

Contents

Preface

1 Whose natures? Whose knowledges? An introduction to epistemic politics and eco-ontologies in Latin America

Michela Coletta and Malayna Raftopoulos

2 The poetics of plants in Latin American literature

Lesley Wylie

3 Hybrid traditions: permaculture, plants and the politics of nature in El Salvador

Naomi Millner

4 Agri-cultural practice and agroecological discourse in the Anthropocene: confronting environmental change and food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean

Graham Woodgate

5 Brazil and the international politics of climate change: leading by example?

Marieke Riethof

6 REDD+ in Latin America: promises and challenges

Anthony Hall

7 Nature, space, identity and resource extraction: paradoxes of discourses around indigeneity and environment in Bolivia

Katinka Weber

8 The difference indigeneity makes: socio-natures, knowledges and contested policy in Ecuador

Sarah A. Radcliffe

Index

PDF: 9781908857811

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Paperback: 9781908857200 / 216 pages / 234mm x 156mm

Michela Coletta (Editor)

Malayna Raftopoulos (Editor)

Subject: Environmental Humanities, Languages, Cultures and Societies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies

BISAC codes: SCI030000

Thema codes: PSAF

Keywords: climate change, environmental crisis, identity, latin america, nature, politics

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