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- Title: Singing About the Land Among the Biangai.
- Author : Oceania
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 208 KB
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Political ecology, if nothing else, has proven to be a useful gloss for research that examines a broad range of topics, mostly combining traditional Marxist political economy with ecological concerns. This agenda has encouraged researchers to place local and global economies and ecologies in a dialogue about political, economic and environmental change. However, Watts and Peet have argued that such research must pay greater attention to the creative aspects of these dialogues as they 'derive aesthetics, innovative thinking, ideals, values and imaginaries from labor and residence', or what they term 'environmental imaginaries' (1996:267). Understanding such creative processes is central to understanding local agency, as well as imagining future ecologies and economies. However, we must not assume that local imaginaries progressively engage the environmental concerns of Western academics and activists, nor that they always provide alternative conservation ethics. Instead, we must be open to the possibility that locally created environmental imaginaries might willingly engage capitalist desires as well as environmental concerns; and that communities will disagree and debate these issues. Only through a detailed ethnography of the micropolitics of nature/culture can such environmental imaginaries be brought to light (Moore 1998).
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