Description
Envisaging a narrative of change that renders visible the complex transformations taking place across the globe, this book outlines new and radical ways to address the current environmental crisis in a more sustainable and context-specific manner. It presents empirical studies from various contexts, highlighting the potentiality of non-Western knowledge, concepts and categories as well as recognising the entanglement of humans with other beings and ecosystems. In particular, it offers critical engagement with the debates around the Anthropocene by challenging the dominant techno-rational agenda that often prevails in socio-political and academic discussions.
This book will be crucial reading for researchers and post-graduate students working in fields from human geography and tourism studies to law, public policy and administration, philosophy, politics and organisation studies who are dealing with intersecting issues of environment, sustainability, indigenous rights, space and ethics. It will also be helpful for policy makers and research consultants in leveraging localised solutions to the current ecological crisis.
About the Author
Edited by Anu Valtonen, Professor of Responsible Arctic Tourism, Multidimensional Tourism Institute and Outi Rantala, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, Finland and Paolo Davide Farah, West Virginia University, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences, John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics, Department of Public Administration, US and gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, UK
Reviews
'Have we run out of time to think and live differently? In this timely, globally relevant text, Valtonen, Rantala and Farah invite us to travel with them on a journey of human-earth relationships in relation to ethics, politics and space. Contributors have collectively produced a critical and provocative text which touches. Beautifully and sensitively written, readers will be inspired to radically question the ways in which we have contributed to capitalism's destruction of our planet. What matters is radically rethinking our being with human and non-human others as a political and ethical intervention.'
--Alison Pullen, Macquarie University, Australia
'Ethics and Politics of Space for the Anthropocene brings us stories that plumb the depths of both theory and grounded insights from the margins of Europe and the Indian sub-continent. With surprising and novel relations generated, this refreshing mix of voices counters growth-based, techno-oriented business as usual at our current climatic juncture and gives perspectives as well as hopes for an uncertain future of our making.'
--Edward H. Huijbens, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Book Information
ISBN 9781839108693
Author Anu Valtonen
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
