Cosmopolitical ecologies across Asia : places and practices of power in changing environments /: places and practices of power in changing environments. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Riamsara Kuyakanon, Hildegard Diemberger and David Sneath.
• Editors: Kuyakanon, Riamsara; Diemberger, Hildegard; Sneath, David
• Contents: I: Introduction: Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia: Introduction (Riam Kuyakanon, Hildegard Diemberger, David Sneath) II: Cosmopolitical Landscapes and Ecologies of Practice 1. When Lha Lu Spirits Suffer and Sometimes Fight Back: Tibetan Cosmopolitics in Times of Environmental Threats and Climate Change (Hildegard Diemberger) 2. Territorial Cults in Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Mobilizing Spirits for Local Identity and Environmental Protection (Yudru Tsomu) 3. Up in Smoke: Cosmopolitical Ecologies and the Disappearing Spirits of the Land in Thailand’s Agricultural Air Pollution (Julia Cassaniti) III: Communities and Cosmos: Place-based Knowledges and Practices 4. Balancing the Sacred Landscape: Environmental Management in Limi North-Western Nepal (Astrid Hovden & Hanna Havnevik) 5. ‘Mother’ Memorials and Cosmopolitics of Environment in Buryatia (Caroline Humphrey) 6. Behind the Façade: Unseen Faces of Japan (David C. Lewis) IV: Cosmopolitics and the Contemporary State 7. Knowing the Lords of the Land: Cosmopolitical Dynamics and Historical Change in Mongolia (David Sneath & Elizabeth Turk) 8. Speaking of Mountain Deities Beyond the County Border: Postsocialist Cosmopolitics and State Territoriality in Inner Mongolia, China (Thomas White) 9. Contesting the Chinese Taiga: Spirits, Reindeer, and Environmental Conservation in Northeast China (Richard Fraser) V: Cosmopolitical Ecologies for the 21st Century 10. Cosmopolitical ecologies of COVID-19 in Bhutan: Repurposing Ritual and Re-presenting Realities (Riam Kuyakanon & Dorji Gyeltshen) 11. Sharing a Room with Sparrows: Maulana Azad and Muslim Ecological Thought (Anand Vivek Taneja) 12. Druids and Jhakris : Place-based Conservation and Conversations Between Spirits and Spirit-workers from Britain and Nepal (Jonathan Woolley) VI: Afterword 13. Cosmopolitical Ecologies in Translation (Hildegard Diemberger, Riam Kuyakanon, David Sneath)
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 304.2095; Human ecology -- Asia; Philosophy of nature -- Asia; Sacred space -- Asia; Environmental management -- Asia; Global environmental change
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000482300; 9781000482249; 9781003036272
• Related ISBNs: 9780367477363
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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