Description
Book Synopsis Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future.
Trade Review “Explores and exemplifies ethnographically an emerging conceptual framework on ecological nostalgias to better understand the emotional impacts on and responses of people to the environmental crises that beset our world”. • Rajindra K. Puri, University of Kent
“It is a tour de force in showing what anthropology can contribute to thinking about the global ecological crisis, and why the cultural and political dimensions of this crisis are no less important than the material ones”. • Marc Brightman, University of Bologna
Table of Contents List of Figures and Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Olivia Angé and David Berliner
Chapter 1. Thinking Through Nostalgia in Anthropologies of the Environment and Ethnographies of Landscape
Roy Ellen
Chapter 2. High Arctic Nostalgia: Thule and the Ecology of Mind
Kirsten Hastrup
Chapter 3. Nostalgic Confessions in the French Cévennes: Politics of Longings in the Neo-Peasants Initiatives
Madeleine Sallustio
Chapter 4. The Nature of Loss: Ecological Nostalgia and Cultural Politics in Amazonia
Casey High
Chapter 5. Ecological Nostalgias and Interspecies Affect in the Highland Potato Fields of Cuzco (Peru)
Olivia Angé
Chapter 6. The Village and the Hamlet in the Mixe Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Nostalgic Commitments to Working and Living Together
Perig Pitrou
Chapter 7. Peaceful Countryside: Ecologies of Longing and the Temporality of Flux in Contemporary Mongolia
Richard D.G. Irvine
Chapter 8. Melt in the Future Subjunctive
Cymene Howe
Afterword
Dominic Boyer
Index
