Dwelling in Political Landscapes

People all over the globe are experiencing unprecedented and often hazardous situations as environments change at speeds never before experienced. This edited collection proposes that anthropological perspectives on landscape have great potential to address the resulting conundrums. The contribution...

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description People all over the globe are experiencing unprecedented and often hazardous situations as environments change at speeds never before experienced. This edited collection proposes that anthropological perspectives on landscape have great potential to address the resulting conundrums. The contributions build particularly on phenomenological, structuralist and multi-species approaches to environmental perception and experience, but they also argue for incorporating political power into analysis alongside dwelling, cosmology and everyday practice. The book’s 13 ethnographically rich chapters explore how the material and the conceptual are entangled in and as landscapes, but it also looks at how these processes unfold at many scales in time and space, involving different actors with different powers. Thus it reaches towards new methodologies and new ways of using anthropology to engage with the sense of crisis concerning environment, movements of people, climate change and other planetary transformations. Dwelling in political landscapes: contemporary anthropological perspectives builds substantially upon anthropological work by Tim Ingold and others, which emphasises the ongoing and open-ended, yet historically conditioned ways in which humans and nonhumans produce the environments they inhabit. In such work, landscapes are understood as the medium and outcome of meaningful life activities, where humans, like other animals, dwell. This means that landscapes are neither social/cultural nor natural, but socio-natural. Protesting against and moving on from the proverbial dualisms of modern, Western and maybe capitalist thought, is only the first step in renewing anthropology’s methodology for the current epoch, however. The contributions ask how seemingly disconnected temporal, representational, economic and other systemic dynamics fold back on lived experience that are materialised in landscapes.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-365162026-05-04T18:57:02Z Dwelling in Political Landscapes Lounela, Anu Berglund, Eeva Kallinen, Timo landscape dwelling politics ethnography ecology transfiguration thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment People all over the globe are experiencing unprecedented and often hazardous situations as environments change at speeds never before experienced. This edited collection proposes that anthropological perspectives on landscape have great potential to address the resulting conundrums. The contributions build particularly on phenomenological, structuralist and multi-species approaches to environmental perception and experience, but they also argue for incorporating political power into analysis alongside dwelling, cosmology and everyday practice. The book’s 13 ethnographically rich chapters explore how the material and the conceptual are entangled in and as landscapes, but it also looks at how these processes unfold at many scales in time and space, involving different actors with different powers. Thus it reaches towards new methodologies and new ways of using anthropology to engage with the sense of crisis concerning environment, movements of people, climate change and other planetary transformations. Dwelling in political landscapes: contemporary anthropological perspectives builds substantially upon anthropological work by Tim Ingold and others, which emphasises the ongoing and open-ended, yet historically conditioned ways in which humans and nonhumans produce the environments they inhabit. In such work, landscapes are understood as the medium and outcome of meaningful life activities, where humans, like other animals, dwell. This means that landscapes are neither social/cultural nor natural, but socio-natural. Protesting against and moving on from the proverbial dualisms of modern, Western and maybe capitalist thought, is only the first step in renewing anthropology’s methodology for the current epoch, however. The contributions ask how seemingly disconnected temporal, representational, economic and other systemic dynamics fold back on lived experience that are materialised in landscapes. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-06-20 10:39:29 2020-04-01T10:17:42Z 2019 book 1005093 OCN: 1117854260 1796-8208 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25008 9789518580877; 9789518581133 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36516 eng Studia Fennica Anthropologica open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25008/1/dwelling-in-political-landscapes.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25008/1/dwelling-in-political-landscapes.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25008/1/dwelling-in-political-landscapes.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25008/1/dwelling-in-political-landscapes.pdf Finnish Literature Society / SKS 10.21435/sfa.4 10.21435/sfa.4 8ceefe60-b6e9-4502-8498-ff110bb0f062 9789518580877; 9789518581133 296 Helsinki open access
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Dwelling in Political Landscapes
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politics
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ecology
transfiguration
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
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topic_facet landscape
dwelling
politics
ethnography
ecology
transfiguration
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment
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