Provincialising nature : : multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in Latin America / / edited by Michela Coletta, Malayna Raftopoulos.

Provincialising Nature: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Politics of the Environment in Latin America offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices in the region. This book shows both challenging scena...

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Place / Publishing House:London : : University of London Press,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxi, 192 pages) :; illustrations, map
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Table of Contents:
  • Whose natures? Whose knowledges? An introduction to epistemic politics and eco-ontologies in Latin America / Michela Coletta and Malayna Raftopoulos
  • The poetics of plants in Latin American literature / Lesley Wylie
  • Hybrid traditions: permaculture, plants and the politics of nature in El Salvador / Naomi Milner
  • Agri-cultural practice and agroecological discourse in the Anthropocene: confronting environmental change and food insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean / Graham Woodgate
  • Brazil and the international politics of climate change: leading by example? / Marieke Riethof
  • REDD+ in Latin America: promises and challenges / Anthony Hall
  • Nature, space, identity and resource extraction: paradoxes of discourses around indigeneity and environment in Bolivia / Katinka Weber
  • The difference indigeneity makes: socio-natures, knowledges and contested policy in Ecuador / Sarah A. Radcliffe.