Vital decomposition : soil practitioners + life politics /

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"VITAL DECOMPOSITION is an experimental ethnography of soil-- not only as object, but as subject and collaborator-- set in southern Colombia, particularly in the Amazonian state of Putumayo. Kristina Lyons theorizes the relationships between life and death and between materiality and politics u...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lyons, Kristina M. (Kristina Marie), 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Soil degradation > Colombia > Putumayo (Department)
Environmental degradation > Colombia > Putumayo (Department)
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Colombia > Putumayo (Department)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Ecology
Environmental degradation
Nature > Effect of human beings on
Soil degradation
Putumayo (Colombia : Department) > Environmental conditions.
Colombia > Putumayo (Department)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Life in the midst of poison
  • From aerial spaces to litter layers
  • The theater of life is also a stage of death : beyond surface chauvinism
  • Partial alliances among minor practices : the “elusive” nature of Colombia’s Amazonian Plains
  • Decomposition as life politics : on reclaiming and relaying
  • Resonating farms and vital spaces : a person and his concepts
  • Which soils? Where soils? Why soils?

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