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The Anthropology of Sustainability

Beyond Development and Progress

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Editors:
  1. Marc Brightman

    1. Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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  2. Jerome Lewis

    1. Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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  • Provides numerous case studies featuring anthropological methods which may contribute to building sustainability
  • Proposes future directions for the study of sustainability and problems like social inequality
  • Explores popular discourse on sustainability and how it relates to concerns within the field of anthropology

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability (PSAS)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: The Anthropology of Sustainability: Beyond Development and Progress

    • Marc Brightman, Jerome Lewis
    Pages 1-34

  3. Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene: A Personal View of What Is to Be Studied

    • Bruno Latour
    Pages 35-49

  4. A Threat to Holocene Resurgence Is a Threat to Livability

    • Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
    Pages 51-65

  5. What Can Sustainability Do for Anthropology?

    • Henrietta L. Moore
    Pages 67-80

  6. Interlude: Perceiving Human Nature Through Imagined Non-human Situations

    • Marcus Coates
    Pages 81-90

  7. “They Call It Shangri-La”: Sustainable Conservation, or African Enclosures?

    • Katherine M. Homewood
    Pages 91-109

  8. Conservation from Above: Globalising Care for Nature

    • William M. Adams
    Pages 111-125

  9. Different Knowledge Regimes and Some Consequences for ‘Sustainability’

    • Signe Howell
    Pages 127-143

  10. The Viability of a High Arctic Hunting Community: A Historical Perspective

    • Kirsten Hastrup
    Pages 145-163

  11. Ebola in Meliandou: Tropes of ‘Sustainability’ at Ground Zero

    • James Fairhead, Dominique Millimouno
    Pages 165-181

  12. Anthropology and the Nature-Society-Development Nexus

    • Laura Rival
    Pages 183-206

  13. The Gaia Complex: Ethical Challenges to an Anthropocentric ‘Common Future’

    • Veronica Strang
    Pages 207-228

  14. Interlude: Performing Gaia

    • Frédérique Aït-Touati, Bruno Latour
    Pages 229-236

  15. Sustaining the Pluriverse: The Political Ontology of Territorial Struggles in Latin America

    • Arturo Escobar
    Pages 237-256

  16. Traditional People, Collectors of Diversity

    • Manuela Carneiro da Cunha
    Pages 257-272

  17. Local Struggles with Entropy: Caipora and Other Demons

    • Mauro W. Barbosa de Almeida
    Pages 273-289

  18. Redesigning Money to Curb Globalization: Can We Domesticate the Root of All Evil?

    • Alf Hornborg
    Pages 291-307

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 309-316
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About this book

This book compiles research from leading experts in the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability, as well as local and global understandings of the concept, and on lived practices around the world. It contains studies focusing on ways of living, acting, and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are a part, and on which we depend for survival. The concept of sustainability as a product of concern about global environmental degradation, rising social inequalities, and dispossession is presented as a key concept. The contributors explore the opportunities to engage with questions of sustainability and to redefine the concept of sustainability in anthropological terms.    

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anthropology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Marc Brightman, Jerome Lewis

About the editors

Marc Brightman is Lecturer in Social and Environmental Sustainability and Co-Director of the Center for the Anthropology of Sustainability at University College London, UK.


Jerome Lewis is Reader in Social Anthropology, Co-Director of the Center for the Anthropology of Sustainability, and Co-Director of the Extreme Citizen Science Research Group at University College London, UK.   


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