...Living in Ruins<subtitle>Degradations and Regenerations</subtitle> ...

... development resilience ontology myth environmental degradation ...

... degradation through remote sensing and ecological surveys captures a more complex picture of development, demographic change, and environmental degradation. The ecological zones discussed in chapter 3 exhibit different states of vulnerability and varying amounts of resilience to heavy human impacts...

... This chapter is a study of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide as an exploration of the degradation of the subaltern world of the Sundarbans by state and local government projects of modernization and international wildlife preservation movements. It argues that although the novel has faith...

... systems. The chapter ends with a discussion of the agency of gold and how gold mining in particular has lent itself to perceptions of the land ending in Porgera. development resilience ontology myth environmental degradation ...

... change as a transnational problem perpetrated by colonial and capitalist frameworks, this chapter puts forth an alternative framework for governing geoengineering practices that enhance, rather than degrade, Indigenous sovereignty. This proposed framework engages polycentricity and ties together diverse...

... This chapter situates contemporary ethnography within late industrialism, a historical period characterized by degraded infrastructure, exhausted paradigms, and the incessant chatter of new media. In the spirit of Writing Culture, it calls for ethnography attuned to its times. It also calls...

... This chapter examines the technologies of mega-mining used at the Yanacocha gold mine in Cajamarca. To distance their operations from the problematic legacy of environmental degradation in mining areas such as the Central Highlands, transnational corporations have sought to create a new image...

... of adaptive knowledge. Looking at climate change and forest degradation through remote sensing and ecological surveys captures a more complex picture of development, demographic change, and environmental degradation. The ecological zones discussed in chapter 3 exhibit different states of vulnerability...

... to mobilize across space and borders. Reinvigorated colonization of the Arctic has brought collective cultural trauma and environmental degradation. This chapter concludes that the environmental and sociocultural fate of the Arctic is desperate. Arctic resource extraction transborder mobilization...

... “Black,” the color of night and nothingness, is a name given by someone else, an insult, a habit, and a way of being, but also a mechanism for objectification and degradation. For Marcus Garvey, Blackness was not lack but the possibility for redemption within the “African empire.” Aimé Césaire’s...

...’ fight for greater inclusion in the Presbyterian Church informed the NGO’s holistic model of development. This model entails working toward multiple goals at once, including enhancing women’s self-esteem, combating environmental degradation, reinforcing religious values, combating individualism...

... climate change and environmental degradation. The chapter suggests that implicit in the critiques of the category of the human are an idea of the human as animal, dependent, embodied, and material. It observes that these ideas are similar in kind to those found in developments in science studies...

... of our media at once connects us to the degradation of the planet and disconnects us, as the political and economic subjects overseeing nature, from nature as the object of that exercise of exploitation and power in the process of environmentalization externality colonialism environmentalization...