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Title How nature works : rethinking labor on a troubled planet / edited by Sarah Besky and Alex Blanchette.

Publication Info. Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press ; Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (x, 261 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Case studies.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject Human ecology -- Case studies.
Human ecology.
Environmental degradation -- Case studies.
Environmental degradation.
Environmental economics -- Case studies.
Environmental economics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Added Author Besky, Sarah, 1981- editor.
Blanchette, Alex, editor.
Other Form: Print version: How nature works. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2019] 9780826360854 (DLC) 2019012254
ISBN 9780826360861 (electronic book)
0826360866 (electronic book)
9780826360854 (paperback alkaline paper)