An Environmental History Of Latin America
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An Environmental History Of Latin America
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Author : Shawn William Miller
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-09-10
An Environmental History Of Latin America written by Shawn William Miller and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-10 with History categories.
This book narrates the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin America's environmental history and argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development. Seeing Latin America's environmental past from the perspective of many centuries illustrates that human civilizations, ancient and modern, have been simultaneously more powerful and more vulnerable than previously thought.
A Living Past
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Author : John Soluri
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2018-02-19
A Living Past written by John Soluri and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-19 with History categories.
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.
Environmental Issues In Latin America And The Caribbean
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Author : Aldemaro Romero
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2006-02-23
Environmental Issues In Latin America And The Caribbean written by Aldemaro Romero and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-23 with Science categories.
This book is a collection of readings that explore environmental issues in Latin America and the Caribbean using natural science and social science methods. These papers demonstrate the value of interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and solve environmental problems. The essays are organized into five parts: conservation challenges; national policies, local communities, and rural development; market mechanisms for protecting public goods; public participation and environmental justice; and the effects of development policies on the environment.
Itineraries Of Expertise
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Author : Andra Chastain
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Itineraries Of Expertise written by Andra Chastain and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with History categories.
Itineraries of Expertise contends that experts and expertise played fundamental roles in the Latin American Cold War. While traditional Cold War histories of the region have examined diplomatic, intelligence, and military operations and more recent studies have probed the cultural dimensions of the conflict, the experts who constitute the focus of this volume escaped these categories. Although they often portrayed themselves as removed from politics, their work contributed to the key geopolitical agendas of the day. The paths traveled by the experts in this volume not only traversed Latin America and connected Latin America to the Global North, they also stretch traditional chronologies of the Latin American Cold War to show how local experts in the early twentieth century laid the foundation for post–World War II development projects, and how Cold War knowledge of science, technology, and the environment continues to impact our world today. These essays unite environmental history and the history of science and technology to argue for the importance of expertise in the Latin American Cold War.
A Land Between Waters
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Author : Christopher R. Boyer
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01
A Land Between Waters written by Christopher R. Boyer and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with History categories.
This is the first book to explore the relationship between the people and the environment of Mexico. Featuring a dozen essays by leading scholars, it heralds the arrival of environmental history as a major area of study in the field of Mexican history and introduces a new book series: “Latin American Landscapes.”
Environmental Justice In Latin America
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Author : David V. Carruthers
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2008
Environmental Justice In Latin America written by David V. Carruthers and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Environmental justice categories.
Scholars and activists investigate the emergence of a distinctively Latin American environmental justice movement, offering analysis and case studies that illustrate the connections between popular environmental mobilization and social justice in the region.
Liquid Ecologies In Latin American And Caribbean Art
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Author : Lisa Blackmore
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-02
Liquid Ecologies In Latin American And Caribbean Art written by Lisa Blackmore and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-02 with Art categories.
This interdisciplinary book brings into dialogue research on how different fluids and bodies of water are mobilised as liquid ecologies in the arts in Latin America and the Caribbean. Examining the visual arts, including multimedia installations, performance, photography and film, the chapters place diverse fluids and systems of flow in art historical, ecocritical and cultural analytical contexts. The book will be of interest to scholars of art history, cultural studies, environmental humanities, blue humanities, ecocriticism, Latin American and Caribbean studies, and island studies. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com
More Than Human Histories Of Latin America And The Caribbean
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Author : André Vasques Vita
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-08
More Than Human Histories Of Latin America And The Caribbean written by André Vasques Vita and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08 with categories.
A consideration of other-than-human elements defining history in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Latin American and Caribbean regions' historical trajectories have been shaped by complex human-nonhuman interactions. In these histories, people are important, even crucial, actors, but not the only ones. Offering a novel approach to the writing of Latin American history, this book brings eight thought-provoking chapters together with a historiographical introduction and critical afterword to center nonhuman beings and things. The oscillating glare of the sun, the allure and resourcefulness of animals, the reluctant genetic malleability of plant seeds, and the life-giving and intractable impassivity of rivers are some of the other-than-human agents driving history in the volume's chapters. This book problematizes Latin American(ist) historiography's tendency to frame "nature" as a separate ontological domain that is only acted upon--conquered, manipulated, devastated--lacking the self-propelled dynamics capable of shaping the course of events. With broad regional and temporal coverage across Latin America and the Caribbean from the pre-colonial period to the present day, More-than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean responds to environmental history's call to write biophysical environments into the human past--a reconsideration of historical agency that, in this era of climate change, is more necessary than ever.
Environment And Citizenship In Latin America
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Author : Alex Latta
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2012-07-01
Environment And Citizenship In Latin America written by Alex Latta and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-01 with Nature categories.
Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these various approaches into a sustained conversation across different social, temporal and geographic contexts. This volume is the result of a collaborative endeavour to advance debates on environmental citizenship, while simultaneously and systematically addressing broader theoretical and methodological questions related to the particularities of studying environment and citizenship in Latin America. Providing a window onto leading scholarship in the field, the book also sets an ambitious agenda to spark further research.
Territories Commodities And Knowledges
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Author : Christian Brannstrom
language : en
Publisher: University of London Press
Release Date : 2004
Territories Commodities And Knowledges written by Christian Brannstrom and has been published by University of London Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
The contributors to this volume engage with emerging conceptual debates within environmental history, placing Latin American case studies within the field's main themes.