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This volume explores how mechanisms of postindustrial capitalism
affect places and people in peripheral regions and
de-industrializing cities. While studies of globalization tend to
emphasize localities newly connected to global systems, this
collection, in contrast, analyzes the disconnection of communities
away from the market, presenting a range of ethnographic case
studies that scrutinize the framework of this transformative
process, analyzing new social formations that are emerging in the
voids left behind by the de-industrialization, and introducing a
discussion on the potential impacts of the current economic and
ecological crises on the hyper-mobile model that has characterized
this recent phase of global capitalism and spatially uneven
development.
This volume explores how mechanisms of postindustrial capitalism
affect places and people in peripheral regions and
de-industrializing cities. While studies of globalization tend to
emphasize localities newly connected to global systems, this
collection, in contrast, analyzes the disconnection of communities
away from the market, presenting a range of ethnographic case
studies that scrutinize the framework of this transformative
process, analyzing new social formations that are emerging in the
voids left behind by the de-industrialization, and introducing a
discussion on the potential impacts of the current economic and
ecological crises on the hyper-mobile model that has characterized
this recent phase of global capitalism and spatially uneven
development.
This edited collection disrupts dominant narratives about space,
states, and borders, bringing comparative ethnographic and
geographic scholarship in conversation with one another to
illuminate the varied ways in which space becomes socialized via
political, economic, and cognitive appropriation. Societies must,
first and foremost, do more than wrangle over ownership and land
rights - they must dwell in space. Yet, historically the
interactions between the state's territorial imperative with
previous forms of landscape management have unfolded in a variety
of ways, including top-down imposition, resistance, and negotiation
between local and external actors. These interactions have resulted
in hybrid forms of territoriality, and are often fraught with
fundamentally different perceptions of landscape. This book
foregrounds these experiences and draws attention to situations in
which different social constructions of space and territory
coincide, collide, or overlap. Each ethnographic case in this
volume presents forms of territoriality that are contingent upon
contested histories, politics, landscape, the presence or absence
of local heterogeneity and the involvement of multiple external
actors with differing motivations - ultimately all resulting in the
potential for conflict or collaboration and divergent implications
for conceptions of community, autochthony and identity.
This edited collection disrupts dominant narratives about space,
states, and borders, bringing comparative ethnographic and
geographic scholarship in conversation with one another to
illuminate the varied ways in which space becomes socialized via
political, economic, and cognitive appropriation. Societies must,
first and foremost, do more than wrangle over ownership and land
rights - they must dwell in space. Yet, historically the
interactions between the state's territorial imperative with
previous forms of landscape management have unfolded in a variety
of ways, including top-down imposition, resistance, and negotiation
between local and external actors. These interactions have resulted
in hybrid forms of territoriality, and are often fraught with
fundamentally different perceptions of landscape. This book
foregrounds these experiences and draws attention to situations in
which different social constructions of space and territory
coincide, collide, or overlap. Each ethnographic case in this
volume presents forms of territoriality that are contingent upon
contested histories, politics, landscape, the presence or absence
of local heterogeneity and the involvement of multiple external
actors with differing motivations - ultimately all resulting in the
potential for conflict or collaboration and divergent implications
for conceptions of community, autochthony and identity.
This major work of historical ecology advances the integration of
research on environmental and social systems, contributing
important lessons for contemporary natural resource policy and
management. A diverse, international region, the Pyrenees has been
characterized as a quintessential example of rural areas across
Europe and North America. The authors use qualitative and
quantitative methods from economics, history, anthropology, and
ecological science to integrate human agency and ecology across a
landscape that moved from agricultural and pastoral production to
industrialization, then experienced acute depopulation, and now is
becoming a focus of conservation and tourism. The book shows how
today's most pressing resource policy challenges are best
illuminated by this broad, long-term understanding of humans and
landscapes.
The relationship between human communities and the environment is
extremely complex. In order to resolve the issues involved with
this relationship, interdisciplinary research combining natural
sciences, social sciences, and humanities is necessary. In this
2010 book, specialists summarise methods and research strategies
for various aspects of social research devoted to environmental
issues. Each chapter is illustrated with ethnographic and
environmental examples, ranging from Australia to Amazonia, from
Madagascar to the United States, and from prehistoric and historic
cases to contemporary rural and urban ones. It deals with climate
change, deforestation, environmental knowledge, natural reserves,
politics and ownership of natural resources, and the effect of
differing spatial and temporal scales. Contributing to the
intellectual project of interdisciplinary environmental social
science, this book shows the possibilities social science can
provide to environmental studies and to larger global problems and
thus will be of equal interest to social and natural scientists and
policy makers.
The relationship between human communities and the environment is
extremely complex. In order to resolve the issues involved with
this relationship, interdisciplinary research combining natural
sciences, social sciences, and humanities is necessary. In this
2010 book, specialists summarise methods and research strategies
for various aspects of social research devoted to environmental
issues. Each chapter is illustrated with ethnographic and
environmental examples, ranging from Australia to Amazonia, from
Madagascar to the United States, and from prehistoric and historic
cases to contemporary rural and urban ones. It deals with climate
change, deforestation, environmental knowledge, natural reserves,
politics and ownership of natural resources, and the effect of
differing spatial and temporal scales. Contributing to the
intellectual project of interdisciplinary environmental social
science, this book shows the possibilities social science can
provide to environmental studies and to larger global problems and
thus will be of equal interest to social and natural scientists and
policy makers.
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