Confronting Environments: Local Understanding in a Globalizing World (Globalization And The Environment) [Paperback]

James G. Carrier (Editor), James G.Carrier (Contributor), Donald Macleod (Contributor), Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (Contributor), Kenneth Iain MacDonald (Contributor), Peter Wynn Kirby (Contributor), Eeva Berglund (Contributor), Kay Milton (Contributor), Josiah Heyman (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 7, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0759105634 | ISBN-13: 978-0759105638

Carrier and his group of international researchers tackle the complex factors affecting people's understandings of their environment-not just the natural environment, but landscapes shaped by humans, and their social contexts. The authors consider the impact of local events, such as tourism or environmental protection regimes, with detailed analyses of local cases. They also evaluate the large-scale political-economic forces that operate at regional and global levels, such as policies and bureaucratic requirements of international agencies and a country's position in global commodity markets. Their approach encourages policy makers and researchers to think about their natural and non-natural environment in novel ways. This book will be an excellent resource for all concerned with social, cultural and political-economic aspects of environmental use and conservation, and researchers in anthropology, geography, and political ecology.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Attentive to both thick description and general processes, exploring and critically engaging with the concepts of the local and the global, Confronting Environments represents an important moment in the revival and rethinking of environmental anthropology. Situating themselves at different ethnographic sites, the authors disentangle the 'environment' as well as the politics and abstractions frequently used to represent it. This book is to be recommended for environmentalists and students of human-environmental relations. It is a timely project, given the urgency of environmental problems and our failures to adequately act and to understand. (Gisli Palsson )

By critically examining the role of the local and global within the lived experiences of the enviroment, this collection is a valuable addition to the debated on enviromental understanding in the social sciences. (Social Anthropology )

This book is a very useful contribution to the broader literature on human-environment interactions....Useful for students and researchers from many disciplines beyond anthropology. (Journal Of The Royal Anthropological Institute )

Recommended. (Choice )

About the Author

James G. Carrier is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University and Honorary Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University. His recent books include Occidentalism: Images of the West and Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Altamira Press (October 7, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0759105634
• ISBN-13: 978-0759105638
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,799,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)