2nd Edition

Routledge Handbook of Environmental Anthropology

474 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

474 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book illustrates the ways in which today's environmental anthropologists are constructing new paradigms for understanding the multiplicity of players, pressures, and ecologies in every environment, as well as the value of cultural knowledge of landscapes. This handbook provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary topics in environmental anthropology and thorough discussions on the... Read more

Section One: Environmental Anthropology: A Brief History

 

1.     Introduction by Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet, Jessie Fredlund, and Helen Kopnina

2.     History and Scope of Environmental Anthropology by Eduardo Brondizio, Ryan Adams, and Stefano Fiorini

3.     Environmental Anthropology: An Experimental History by Leslie Sponsel

4.     Ethnobiology and the New Environmental Anthropology by Eugene Anderson

5.     Puerto Rican Environmental Anthropology: A Brief Overview by Carlos G. García Quijano and Hilda Lloréns

 

Section Two: Ways of Knowing: Theory and Theoretical Debates in Environmental Anthropology

 

6.     Historical Ecology: Agency in Human-Environment Interaction by Lauren Dodaro and Dustin Reuther  

7.     The Guitar and the Tree: On Environmental Anthropology and Enviromateriality by José E. Martínez-Reyes  

8.     What’s Ontology Got to Do with it? On the Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Environmental Anthropology by Sian Sullivan  

9.     Excavating Environmental Anthropology’s Challenging Foundations by David W Kidner 

 

Section Three: Ways of Knowing and Learning: Methods and Emerging Approaches in Environmental Anthropology

 

10.  All Our Relationships: Settler Translations of Indigenous Relations with Plants by Rob Efird  

11.  Drawing Insights about Place: Spatial Representations of the Environment in Hawai`i by Bryan Wee, Benjamin Crawford, Amy DePierre 

12.  Towards a Methodological Framework in Architectural Anthropology for Indigenous Wellbeing by Angela Kreutz, Paul Memmott and Jenine Godwin-Thompson 

13.  Spiritual Ecology, Sacred Places, and Biodiversity Conservation by Leslie Sponsel

14.  Cognition and Cultural Modeling: Understanding the World around Us and Each Other by Kimberly Kirner

 

Section Four: Environment and the Climate Crisis

 

15.  Taking Responsibility for Climate Change: On Sustainable Consumption and Neoliberal Environmental Governance by Cynthia Isenhour, Brieanne Berry, Erin Victor, and Chyanne Yoder

16.  On Dying Glaciers: Losing Ice and Finding a Response by Cymene Howe

17.  Subsurface Convergence Zones and the Net-Zero Future: Routing a Carbon Dioxide Emissions Pipeline by Mark Nuttall

18.  Disasters and Their Impact: A Fundamental Feature of Environment by Susanna M. Hoffman

19.  Indigenous Australians and Climate Change: Impacts, Indigenous Voices, and the Need for a Collaborative Radical Response by Hans A. Baer

20.  Grounding the Sky: Embodied Health and Expert Knowledge during Climate Crisis by Evan A. Singer, Manon Lefèvre, and Michael R. Dove. 

 

Section Five: Environmental Justice

 

21.  Critical Environmental Justice: Anthropological Extensions by Sydney Giacalone and Myles Lennon 

22.  Engaging with Disaster: The Critical Contributions of Environmental Anthropologists and Ethnographic Data Collection in Disaster Risk Reduction and Preparedness-Equity by Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet

23.  The Puerto Rican Local Food Movement: Transformation After Disaster by Ryan Adams

24.  Elite Pollution, Environmental Justice, and the Making of Environmental Health by Merrill Singer

25.  Refining Relationships: How an Unlikely Community–Scientist Partnership Led to a Historic Environmental Justice Victory by Nicholas Shapiro, Jackie James, Liz Barry, Shaun Crawford, Jennifer Pusatier, Adele Henderson, Timothy Logsdon, Joyce Hogenkamp, and Tom Gentile

 

Section Six: Environmental Ethics and Conservation

 

26.  Authenticity as Indigenous Modernity in Namibian Ecotourism: Two Contradictions of Haiǀǀom and !Xung Development under Neoliberal Capitalism by Stasja Koot

27.  A Perfect Fit for the Indigenous ‘Slot’? Batwa Identity Politics Meets Global Advocacy Agendas in Kahuzi-Biega National Park by Fergus O’Leary Simpson, Lionel Bisimwa Matabaro, and Vedaste Cituli Alinirihu 

28.  Settler Ecologies and Their Decolonization: Three En-Visions of Ecological Futures by Irus Braverman

29.  Demilitarizing the Environment: Fire Suppression, Counterinsurgency, and Karuk Cultural Perpetuation by Bruno Seraphin and Leaf Hillman

 

Section Seven: Beyond Human: Multispecies Ethnography, Ecological Justice, and Making Space for More-than-Human Perspectives.

 

30.  Digitized and Datafied Wildlife: Environmental Anthropology and Technology by Emily Wanderer

31.  The Anthropology of Plants: Toward a Botany Otherwise by Colin Hoag

32.  Rights of Nature: A Critical Dialogue between Law and Environmental Anthropology by Dirk Hanschel and Annette Mehlhorn

33.  Justice for All: Inconvenient Truths and Reconciliation in Human-Non-Numan Relations by Veronica Strang

Biography

Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut (UConn), USA, and the Associate Director of UConn’s Institute of Environment and Energy.

Jessie Fredlund is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York (SUNY), New Paltz, USA.

Helen Kopnina (PhD, Cambridge University, 2002) coordinates the Sustainable Business program at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK.