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

Publication Info. London : Institute of Latin American Studies, [2016]
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Note "This book is in part the outcome of an ESRC-funded project."--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Summary 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 scenarios and original perspectives that have emerged in Latin America in relation to the globally urgent issues of climate change and the environmental crisis. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and identity and their role in understanding recent and current practices of climate change and environmental policy. The different chapters in this volume contribute to this debate by offering multidisciplinary perspectives on particular aspects of these two frameworks and through a multidirectional outlook that links the local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry across a diverse geographical spectrum.
Subject Environmental policy -- Latin America.
Environmental protection -- Latin America.
Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Latin America.
Environnement -- Politique gouvernementale -- Amérique latine.
Environnement -- Protection -- Amérique latine.
Climatic changes -- Government policy
Environmental policy
Environmental protection
Latin America
Added Author Coletta, Michela, editor.
Raftopoulos, Malayna, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Provincialising nature. London : Institute of Latin American Studies, [2016] 9781908857200 (OCoLC)962071144
ISBN 9781908857811 (electronic bk.)
1908857811 (electronic bk.)
9781908857200
190885720X
Standard No. AU@ 000067507512

 
    
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