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Contested Ecologies: Dialogues in the South on Nature and Knowledge
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Paperback. Contested Ecologies: Reimagining the Nature-culture Divide in the Global South offers an intervention in the conversations on ecology and on coloniality, and on the ways in which modern thinking, with its bifurcation of nature and culture, constitutes 'ecology' within a very particular politics of the cosmos. Editor(s): Green, Lesley. Num Pages: 277 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 505.
Contested Ecologies: Reimagining the Nature-Culture Divide in the Global South offers an intervention in the conversations on ecology and on coloniality, and on the ways in which modern thinking, with its bifurcation of nature and culture, constitutes ‘ecology’ within a very particular politics of the cosmos. The chapters in this collection contest the framework of knowledge that has deadlocked nature and culture, tradition and modernity, scientific and indigenous and in doing so makes a case for the value of rethinking knowledge beyond the nature-culture divide.
Contested Ecologies: Reimagining the Nature-Culture Divide in the Global South offers an intervention in the conversations on ecology and on coloniality, and on the ways in which modern thinking, with its bifurcation of nature and culture, constitutes ‘ecology’ within a very particular politics of the cosmos. The chapters in this collection contest the framework of knowledge that has deadlocked nature and culture, tradition and modernity, scientific and indigenous and in doing so makes a case for the value of rethinking knowledge beyond the nature-culture divide.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Human Sciences Research Council
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN
9780796924285
SKU
V9780796924285
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About
Lesley Green is an anthropologist at UCT, South Africa, and while leading the Sawyer Seminar on Knowledges and Ways of Knowing, was attached to UCT’s Africa Knowledges Project in the Programme for the Enhancement of Research Capacity.
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