In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time. Visceral sensations, she finds, are vital to this process, which yields a new animism in which humans and "the environment" become thoroughly entangled. In case studies on food, water, energy, and climate from the United States, India, and Japan, Weston approaches the new animism as both a symptom of…mehr
In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time. Visceral sensations, she finds, are vital to this process, which yields a new animism in which humans and "the environment" become thoroughly entangled. In case studies on food, water, energy, and climate from the United States, India, and Japan, Weston approaches the new animism as both a symptom of our times and an analytic with the potential to open paths to new and forgotten ways of living.
Kath Weston is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. A Guggenheim Fellow and two-time winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize, Weston is the author of several books, including Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor; Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age ; and Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgments. Generosity and Nothing But viii Introduction. Animating Intimacies, Reanimating a World 1 Food 1. Biosecurity and Surveillance in the Food Chain 37 Energy 2. The Unwanted Intimacy of Radiation Exposure in Japan 71 Climate Change 3. Climate Change, Slippery on the Skin 105 Water 4. The Greatest Show on Parched Earth 135 Knowing What We KNow, Why Are We Stuck? 5. Political Ecologies of the Precarious 177 Notes 199 References 217 Index 243
Acknowledgments. Generosity and Nothing But viii Introduction. Animating Intimacies, Reanimating a World 1 Food 1. Biosecurity and Surveillance in the Food Chain 37 Energy 2. The Unwanted Intimacy of Radiation Exposure in Japan 71 Climate Change 3. Climate Change, Slippery on the Skin 105 Water 4. The Greatest Show on Parched Earth 135 Knowing What We KNow, Why Are We Stuck? 5. Political Ecologies of the Precarious 177 Notes 199 References 217 Index 243
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