How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet

Winner of the 2021 Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book PrizeWe now live on a...
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Author: Sarah Besky
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How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet by Besky, Sarah

How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet

¥15,098

How Nature Works: Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet

¥15,098
Author: Sarah Besky
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Winner of the 2021 Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book Prize

We now live on a planet that is troubled--even overworked--in ways that compel us to reckon with inherited common sense about the relationship between human labor and nonhuman nature. In Paraguay, fast-growing soy plants are displacing both prior crops and people. In Malaysia, dispossessed farmers are training captive orangutans to earn their own meals. In India, a prized dairy cow suddenly refuses to give more milk. Built from these sorts of scenes and sites, where the ultimate subjects and agents of work are ambiguous, How Nature Works develops an anthropology of labor that is sharply attuned to the irreversible effects of climate change, extinction, and deforestation. The authors of this volume push ethnographic inquiry beyond the anthropocentric documentation of human work on nature in order to develop a language for thinking about how all labor is a collective ecological act.



Author: Sarah Besky
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 10/15/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.37w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780826360854


Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2020

About the Author
Besky, Sarah: - Sarah Besky is an assistant professor of anthropology and international and public affairs at Brown University. She is the author of The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India.Blanchette, Alex: - Alex Blanchette is an assistant professor of anthropology at Tufts University.

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