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1 online resource (x, 261 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
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School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Case studies.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Case studies.
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Human ecology -- Case studies.
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Human ecology. |
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Environmental degradation -- Case studies.
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Environmental degradation. |
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Environmental economics -- Case studies.
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Environmental economics. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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Added Author |
Besky, Sarah, 1981- editor.
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Blanchette, Alex, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: How nature works. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2019] 9780826360854 (DLC) 2019012254 |
ISBN |
9780826360861 (electronic book) |
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0826360866 (electronic book) |
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9780826360854 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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