| Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World Contributor(s): Weston, Kath (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822362325 ISBN-13: 9780822362326 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Human Geography - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) - Science | Global Warming & Climate Change |
| Dewey: 304.28 |
| LCCN: 2016026991 |
| Series: Anima: Critical Race Studies Otherwise |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.79 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time. Visceral sensations, she finds, are vital to this process, which yields a new animism in which humans and "the environment" become thoroughly entangled. In case studies on food, water, energy, and climate from the United States, India, and Japan, Weston approaches the new animism as both a symptom of our times and an analytic with the potential to open paths to new and forgotten ways of living. |