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More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting
place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples
who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American
whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth
century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that
have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship
between these two species has been central to the ocean’s
history. Across Species and Cultures: Whales, Humans, and Pacific
Worlds offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging
geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories
in the Pacific. The essay contributors, hailing from around the
Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new
methodological ground in environmental history, women’s history,
animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they
reveal previously hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling,
including the contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist
whaling, the industry’s exceptionally far-reaching spread, and
its overlooked second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the
twentieth century. While pointing to striking continuities in
whaling histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures
also reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and
Indigenous peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the
North and South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into
the lives and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst
ravages of commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two
centuries of mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance
continues to nourish many human communities around and in the
Pacific Ocean where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as
signs of wealth and power, act as providers and protectors, but are
also ancestors, providing a bridge between human and nonhuman
worlds.
Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of
interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local
environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous
experiences. It illuminates the questions that are central to the
ongoing evolution of the environmental movement while reappraising
the history and character of late twentieth and early twenty-first
environmentalism in Canada, the United States, and beyond. This
collection considers the different ways in which Indigenous and
non-Indigenous activists have worked to achieve significant change.
It examines attempts to resist exploitative and damaging resource
developments, and the establishment of parks, heritage sites, and
protected areas that recognize the indivisibility of cultural and
natural resources. It pays special attention to the thriving
environmentalism of the 1960s through the 1980s, an era which saw
the rise of major organizations such as Greenpeace along with the
flourishing of local and community-based environmental activism.
Environmental Activism on the Ground emphasizes the effects of
local and Indigenous activism, offering lessons and directions from
the ground up. It demonstrates that the modern environmental
movement has been as much a small-scale, ordinary activity as a
large-scale, elite one.
More than any other locale, the Pacific Ocean has been the meeting
place between humans and whales. From Indigenous Pacific peoples
who built lives and cosmologies around whales, to Euro-American
whalers who descended upon the Pacific during the nineteenth
century, and to the new forms of human-cetacean partnerships that
have emerged from the late twentieth century, the relationship
between these two species has been central to the ocean's history.
Across Species and Cultures: New Histories of Pacific Whaling
offers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and
temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific.
The essay contributors, hailing from around the Pacific, present a
wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological
ground in environmental history, women's history, animal studies,
and Indigenous ontologies. In the process they reveal previously
hidden aspects of the story of Pacific whaling, including the
contributions of Indigenous people to capitalist whaling, the
industry's exceptionally far-reaching spread, and its overlooked
second life as a global, industrial slaughter in the twentieth
century. While pointing to striking continuities in whaling
histories around the Pacific, Across Species and Cultures also
reveals deep tensions: between environmentalists and Indigenous
peoples, between ideas and realities, and between the North and
South Pacific. The book delves in unprecedented ways into the lives
and histories of whales themselves. Despite the worst ravages of
commercial and industrial whaling, whales survived two centuries of
mass killing in the Pacific. Their perseverance continues to
nourish many human communities around and in the Pacific Ocean
where they are hunted as commodities, regarded as signs of wealth
and power, act as providers and protectors, but are also ancestors,
providing a bridge between human and nonhuman worlds.
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