Animate Planet : Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World (Anima: Critical Race Studies Otherwise)

Weston, Kath

Duke University Press（2017/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822362104
• DDC分類 333.72

Full 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.

Contents

Acknowledgments. Generosity and Nothing But  viii

Introduction. Animating Intimacies, Reanimating a World  1

Food
1. Biosecurity and Surveillance in the Food Chain  37

Energy
2. The Unwanted Intimacy of Radiation Exposure in Japan  71

Climate Change
3. Climate Change, Slippery on the Skin  105

Water
4. The Greatest Show on Parched Earth  135

Knowing What We KNow, Why Are We Stuck?
5. Political Ecologies of the Precarious  177

Notes  199

References  217

Index  243