Environmental Alterities
In the context of accelerating environmental crises and exhausted intellectual paradigms, this book asks what comes after ‘after nature’. Instead of demanding new models and approaches, it invites its readers to look to the endpoints and failures of what is already known, in order to generate altern...
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| description | In the context of accelerating environmental crises and exhausted intellectual paradigms, this book asks what comes after ‘after nature’. Instead of demanding new models and approaches, it invites its readers to look to the endpoints and failures of what is already known, in order to generate alternative forms of ethical engagement with worlds both on this planet, and beyond it. Drawing together scholarship from across science and technology studies, philosophy, and anthropology and bringing it into conversation with rich ethnographic and empirical material, the book asks how we might potentialise the contradictions and oppositions of critical social scientific thinking in order to develop a mode of paradoxical engagement that is in constant movement between knowledge and its edges, practices and their limits, and which allows us to relate to that which is excessive to relations and relationality. The chapters in the book range across very different empirical settings and communities of people, from fishermen in the Scottish seas, the sea folk of Indonesian archipelagos, indigenous peoples in forests in Lowland Ecuador, primatologists in the jungle of DR Congo, the personal and domestic space of living with dogs and the cosmological scale of planetary interactions. Each chapter explores different modes of environmental relationality and alterity by grappling with the spaces in-between – the contradictions, uncertainties, limits, excesses and liminalities which make up people’s everyday relations with their environments. The chapters are accompanied by in-depth conversations between scholars who frankly discuss the proposals of the book and the arguments of each chapter, with a view to inviting further reflection and discussion amongst the book’s readers. As the chapters and conversations in this book show, admitting that we still do not know what the environment is, even in times of crisis, can be a form of hopeful, humble environmental politics. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1709842026-01-20T05:06:47Z Environmental Alterities Bonelli, Cristóbal Environmental Politics Science and Technology Studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology In the context of accelerating environmental crises and exhausted intellectual paradigms, this book asks what comes after ‘after nature’. Instead of demanding new models and approaches, it invites its readers to look to the endpoints and failures of what is already known, in order to generate alternative forms of ethical engagement with worlds both on this planet, and beyond it. Drawing together scholarship from across science and technology studies, philosophy, and anthropology and bringing it into conversation with rich ethnographic and empirical material, the book asks how we might potentialise the contradictions and oppositions of critical social scientific thinking in order to develop a mode of paradoxical engagement that is in constant movement between knowledge and its edges, practices and their limits, and which allows us to relate to that which is excessive to relations and relationality. The chapters in the book range across very different empirical settings and communities of people, from fishermen in the Scottish seas, the sea folk of Indonesian archipelagos, indigenous peoples in forests in Lowland Ecuador, primatologists in the jungle of DR Congo, the personal and domestic space of living with dogs and the cosmological scale of planetary interactions. Each chapter explores different modes of environmental relationality and alterity by grappling with the spaces in-between – the contradictions, uncertainties, limits, excesses and liminalities which make up people’s everyday relations with their environments. The chapters are accompanied by in-depth conversations between scholars who frankly discuss the proposals of the book and the arguments of each chapter, with a view to inviting further reflection and discussion amongst the book’s readers. As the chapters and conversations in this book show, admitting that we still do not know what the environment is, even in times of crisis, can be a form of hopeful, humble environmental politics. 2026-01-20T05:06:46Z 2026-01-20T05:06:46Z 2026-01-19T08:18:02Z 2021 book ONIX_20260113T144613_9781912729159_12 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109747 9781912729159 9781912729142 9781912729173 9781912729166 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/170984 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109747/1/9781912729159.pdf Mattering Press Mattering Press 10.28938/9781912729142 10.28938/9781912729142 cc75b5a6-8f3f-4412-bf4e-26e8d3b68bf0 9781912729159 9781912729142 9781912729173 9781912729166 Mattering Press 248 Manchester, UK open access |
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| title | Environmental Alterities |
| title_full | Environmental Alterities |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Environmental Alterities |
| title_short | Environmental Alterities |
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| topic | Environmental Politics Science and Technology Studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology |
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