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Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia - Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments (Hardcover)
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Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia - Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities
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Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia offers a unique insight into
the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management
in a changing world. This volume presents a comparative,
place-based exploration of landscapes across Asia and the entities,
practices and knowledges that inhabit them. Rather than treating
sacred mountains, terrains and water sources as self-contained,
esoteric religious phenomena, the authors consider them within
critical 'cosmopolitical ecologies' framings in which non-human
entities are engaged as actors in the socio-political arena. The
chapters include case studies of healing springs recognized by
governments, and sacred mountains that are addressed by heads of
states and Communist Party cadres, or that speak to the faithful
through spirit mediums in a politics of re-enchantment.
Contributors explore the diverse ways in which non-human entities
such as forest spirits, reindeer, mountains and Buddhist Masters of
the Land are engaged by humans to navigate environmental change and
address a range of ecological threats from large-scale mining to
climate change. Cosmopolitical ecologies approaches encompass the
healing power of topography as well as transformative intimacies
with other-than-human beings such as sparrows within an Islamic
eco-theological poetic setting. In this light the book observes
dynamic and creative processes of cosmological innovation including
the repurposing of ritual to address challenges such as the
Covid-19 epidemic. This book will be of great interest to students
and scholars of environment and society across disciplinary
perspectives in general, and to anthropologists, human geographers,
political ecologists, indigenous studies, area studies,
environmental sciences and environmental humanities scholars in
particular.
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