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  • Coastal Futures

    Life Between and at the Edges of the Sea

    Edición de Arne Harms, Lukas Ley ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    Coastal Futures explores the profound transformation of our relationship with the world’s coasts, as nearly 40 percent of humanity now lives within 100 kilometers of the sea.Moving beyond the traditional view of coasts as simple boundaries between land and water, this book reveals the coast as a diverse, networked landscape shaped by intertidal ecologies, sprawling infrastructures, and everyday ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Building on Borrowed Time

    Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang

    de Lukas Ley ...
    A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disasterIce caps are melting, seas are rising, and densely populated cities worldwide are threatened by floodwaters, especially in Southeast Asia. Building on Borrowed Time is a timely and powerful ethnography of how people in Semarang, Indonesia, on the north coast of Java, are dealing ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Bitcoin and Cryptographic Finance. Technology, Shortcomings and Alternative Cryptocurrencies

    de Lukas Leys ...
    Designed by an anonymous creator, Bitcoin is an intriguing and revolutionary modern technology and payment transaction infrastructure. But as with any new technology, there are many obstacles and threats on the path towards mainstream acceptance. What are the shortcomings of the Bitcoin protocol and Bitcoin as a currency? Moreover, which competitors may one day be able to surpass Bitcoin and make ... Leer más

    $43.49 USD

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  • Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

    Edición de Matthew Schneider-Mayerson ...
    In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine.This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    de Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Intimate Economies of Bangkok

    Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City

    de Ara Wilson ...
    Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects of the global economy in this vibrant city.The Intimate Economies of Bangkok is a multifaceted portrait of the intertwining ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Culture and the Question of Rights

    Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia

    de Marina Roseman, Stephanie Gorson Fried, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new terrain at the intersection of environmental justice, nature conservation, cultural performance, and the politics of making and interpreting ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change

    Edición de T. J. Demos, Emily Eliza Scott, Subhankar Banerjee ...
    Series series Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions
    International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture, and their ethics and values, matter with regard to a world increasingly shaped by climate breakdown?Foregrounding a decolonial and climate-justice ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia

    Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh

    de Kathrin Eitel ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It considers the circular flows of waste and practices through ‘infracycles’, maintenance practices that tinker with the social and capitalist order, and postcolonial ways of doing politics that co-constitute predominant waste fantasies from which naturecultures ooze out, shaping urban life in their own way.In this context, ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Disastrous Times

    Beyond Environmental Crisis in Urbanizing Asia

    Edición de Eli Elinoff, Tyson Vaughan ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster
    Across contemporary Asia, each day dawns with a new story about living in an era of profound environmental change. Rapid transformations in the landscape, society, and technology produce new conflicts that are experienced at nearly every scale of life in the region. Environmental change is marked in square kilometers or micrometers, in cities or in households, within national boundaries and beyond ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • Managing Cultural Landscapes

    Edición de Ken Taylor, Jane Lennon ...
    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    One of our deepest needs is for a sense of identity and belonging. A common feature in this is human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a remarkable flowering of interest in, and understanding of, cultural landscapes. With these came a challenge to the 1960s and 1970s concept of heritage concentrating on great monuments and ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Political Ecologies of Landscape

    Governing Urban Transformations in Penang

    de Creighton Connolly ...
    Connolly uses ongoing urban redevelopment in Penang in Malaysia to provide stimulating new perspectives on urbanisation, governance and political ecology.The book deploys the concept of landscape political ecology to show how Penang residents, activists, planners and other stakeholders mobilize new relationships with the urban environment, to contest controversial development projects and ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD