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Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific focuses on the plasticity and
contingent nature of Pacific Island masculinities over the course
of colonial and postcolonial histories. The several case histories
concern the use of sports to recuperate but also refashion past
masculinities in the name of contemporary masculine pride; the
effects of market participation on younger males; how urbanisation
and migration set the stage for experimenting with male gender and
sexuality; the impacts of military and labour histories on local
masculinities; masculinity and violence in war and gender violence;
and structural violence and disruptions in male gender identity.
Depicting contemporary Pacific Island societies as a space of
gender invention and pluralism as indigenous gender regimes respond
to the stimulations of transnational flows, the book asks a key
historical question: Do emergent masculinities signal a rupture, or
some continuity with, past masculinities? This book was originally
published as a special double issue of The Asia Pacific Journal of
Anthropology.
Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific focuses on the plasticity and
contingent nature of Pacific Island masculinities over the course
of colonial and postcolonial histories. The several case histories
concern the use of sports to recuperate but also refashion past
masculinities in the name of contemporary masculine pride; the
effects of market participation on younger males; how urbanisation
and migration set the stage for experimenting with male gender and
sexuality; the impacts of military and labour histories on local
masculinities; masculinity and violence in war and gender violence;
and structural violence and disruptions in male gender identity.
Depicting contemporary Pacific Island societies as a space of
gender invention and pluralism as indigenous gender regimes respond
to the stimulations of transnational flows, the book asks a key
historical question: Do emergent masculinities signal a rupture, or
some continuity with, past masculinities? This book was originally
published as a special double issue of The Asia Pacific Journal of
Anthropology.
Reimagining Political Ecology is a state-of-the-art collection of
ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology
first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted
in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection
showcases second-generation political ecology, which retains the
Marxist interest in capitalism as a global structure but which is
also heavily influenced by poststructuralism, feminism, practice
theory, and cultural studies. As these essays illustrate,
contemporary political ecology moves beyond binary thinking,
focusing instead on the interchanges between nature and culture,
the symbolic and the material, and the local and the global.Aletta
Biersack's introduction takes stock of where political ecology has
been, assesses the field's strengths, and sets forth a bold
research agenda for the future. Two essays offer wide-ranging
critiques of modernist ecology, with its artificial dichotomy
between nature and culture, faith in the scientific management of
nature, and related tendency to dismiss local knowledge. The
remaining eight essays are case studies of particular constructions
and appropriations of nature and the complex politics that come
into play regionally, nationally, and internationally when nature
is brought within the human sphere. Written by some of the leading
thinkers in environmental anthropology, these rich ethnographies
are based in locales around the world: in Belize, Papua New Guinea,
the Gulf of California, Iceland, Finland, the Peruvian Amazon,
Malaysia, and Indonesia. Collectively, they demonstrate that
political ecology speaks to concerns shared by geographers,
sociologists, political scientists, historians, and anthropologists
alike. And they model the kind of work that this volume identifies
as the future of political ecology: place-based "ethnographies of
nature" keenly attuned to the conjunctural effects of
globalization. Contributors. Eeva Berglund, Aletta Biersack, J.
Peter Brosius, Michael R. Dove, James B. Greenberg, Soren Hvalkof,
J. Stephen Lansing, Gisli Palsson, Joel Robbins, Vernon L.
Scarborough, John W. Schoenfelder, Richard Wilk
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