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How nature works : rethinking labor on a troubled planet /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Besky, Sarah, 1981- (Editor ), Blanchette, Alex (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Fe : Albuquerque : School for Advanced Research Press ; University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
Colección:School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.