Animate planet : making visceral sense of living in a high-tech, ecologically damaged world /
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| Author / Creator: | Weston, Kath, 1958- author. |
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| Imprint: | Durham : Duke University Press, 2017. ©2017 |
| Description: | x, 250 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | ANIMA ANIMA (Duke University Press) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10968434 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 250 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822362104 0822362104 9780822362326 0822362325 |
