... environmental history Indigenous environmental studies science and technology studies data collection heteropatriarchy ...

... The introduction surveys the book's arguments and reviews relevant literature in the fields of environmental history, Indigenous environmental studies, and science and technology studies. It addresses why weather-dependent settler colonialism is a vital area of study and explains how and why...

... settler colonialism Indigenous studies environmental humanities literary regionalism ...

... The introduction sets up the book’s central argument, which examines how erosion narratives are almost always about who claims the material earth to what ends and whether or not those claims are recognized. Drawing from methodologies in Indigenous studies and environmental humanities...

..., the environmental humanities, modernist studies, American studies, Black studies, and legal history. The introduction ends with a self-reflective engagement with the author’s historical, political, and racial positionality and a chapter overview. Indigenous modernism distributions of interiority US cultures...

... are used by Indigenous women as inspiration for various activist movements for environmental justice, women’s health and healing, and food sovereignty. Storytelling animal studies desire and sexuality Christian ideology ...

... the North Coast as a propitious field site for the deployment of these concepts. After overviewing the author’s relationships to the communities in the region—most notably its Indigenous communities—the chapter outlines the capitalist development circumstances that motivate its sound studies approach...

... management plans. Equivalences shift the focus of discussion toward technical solutions and economic calculations, but people’s ways of measuring changes in their surroundings do not necessarily rely on legal classifications of water, environmental standards, or scientific studies. The engagement...

... Marco Octavio Ribera, lays out some of the major environmental hotspots in different parts of the country. Highlighted is the mas government’s controversial plan to build a road through the ecologically rich and fragile Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory ( tipnis ). Ribera’s...

...; the abolitionist potentials in their coming together; the dislocation of Black queer anthropologists in the academy and the discipline; the complex sociality of ethnographic practice, relationality, and community accountability; and the need for another/Black queer non-university, spaces for study...

... for the new El Dorado. In 2005 a Canadian company inaugurated an open-pit gold mine in the indigenous province of San Marcos. In response, when local residents held a consulta , or referendum, in which 98 percent rejected the mine, the province became the epicenter of what is now a national movement to make...

... these apparently adverse topographical and climatic conditions into advantages that ultimately permitted the development of large populations and prosperous local and regional economies. A fundamental contribution of Andean studies has been to analyze and explain both political and environmental-management systems...

...Global Themes The study of commodities and commodity chains in the Indian Ocean World enables students and teachers to see parallels with other world regions and other commodities. This chapter identifies commodities that dominated Indian Ocean trade over time, such as ivory, gold, cowry...

... knowledge which showed their hereditary links to larger populations. By integrating indigenous groups in the constitution of majority populations, the SNP project fills in vital gaps in the regional and global picture of human biological and cultural diversity. storytelling Pan-Asian SNP Consortium...

..., and minimal regulation of foreign firms. Among the costs were the devastating and irreversible environmental effects on the tropical rainforest and indigenous peoples. Given the booming land market, rural land sale and rental advertisements in local papers were even more common in 2014 than in 1990. ...