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"This is an excellent collection of articles. . . . All are clearly
written and any of them could be used in undergraduate teaching.
Moreover, the range of case studies is impressively global. . . .
The articles all exhibit a good capacity to provoke. . . . The
result is an enjoyable book that is likely to be useful to
teachers, students and practitioners of environmentalism." -
Anthropological Forum Anthropologists know that conservation often
disempowers already under-privileged groups, and that it also fails
to protect environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies,
this book argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of
"pristine nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated
people. Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns
of consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that
critical attention would be better turned on discourses of
"primitiveness" and "pristine nature" so prevalent within
conservation ideology, and on the historically formed power and
exchange relationships that they help perpetuate. David G. Anderson
is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the
University of Aberdeen. Eeva Berglund was Lecturer in Anthropology
at Goldsmiths College from 1998 to 2002 and has written on the
anthropology and history of environmental politics.
The book aims to counter the normative functioning of creativity in
contemporary capitalism with a plethora of alternatives to radical
creative practices. In the first part, titled "Creative
Capitalism", five authors analyze the forms of contemporary
capitalism: on the one hand, there are new ways of working which
include flexibility, mobility, and especially precarity; on the
other, there are new forms of recovery and accumulation. In the
second part, titled "Multitudinous Creativities: Radicalities and
Alterities", the book reflects on more autonomous creative
experiments in the world. The third part, titled "Creativity, New
Technologies, and Networks", analyses the issues related to the
work of creative capitalism and the possible resistance within the
digital and collaborative platforms.
Anthropologists know that conservation often disempowers already
under-privileged groups, and that it also fails to protect
environments. Through a series of ethnographic studies, this book
argues that the real problem is not the disappearance of "pristine
nature" or even the land-use practices of uneducated people.
Rather, what we know about culturally determined patterns of
consumption, production and unequal distribution, suggests that
critical attention would be better turned on discourses of
"primitiveness" and "pristine nature" so prevalent within
conservation ideology, and on the historically formed power and
exchange relationships that they help perpetuate.
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