ReimaginingLivelihoodsargues that the 'hegemonic trio' of economy, society, and environment not onlyfails to describe the actual world around us but poses a tremendous obstacle toenacting a truly sustainable future. In seeking a pathway for transformativethought that is both critical and affirmative, Ethan Miller provides new framesof reference for living together on an increasingly volatile Earth.
By:
Ethan Miller,
Ethan Miller
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 38mm
ISBN: 9781517904326
ISBN 10: 1517904323
Series: Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 26 March 2019
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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ELT Advanced
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents Introduction: Troubling Economy, Society, and Environment in Maine Part I. Problematizing the Trio 1. Constitutional Geometry: Shapes of Power Part II. Tracing Hegemonies 2. Forces and Domains: Dynamics of Mastery and Submission 3. Enclosures and Outsides: Making and Unmaking Boundaries 4. A Diagram of Power: Nature-Culture, Capital-State, and Development Part III. Decomposing the Trio 5. Cracks in the Assemblage: Uncertainties, Resistances, and Swerves 6. Multiplying Articulations: How Many Definitions Can Maine’s Professionals Produce? Part IV. (Re)composing Livelihoods 7. Ecopoiesis: Making Habitats and Inhabitants 8. Ecological Livelihoods: Beyond the Trio 9. Tools for a Politics of Ecological Livelihood 10. Ontopolitical Coordinates: Rearticulating Struggles in Maine Conclusion: Becoming Otherwise Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Ethan Miller is lecturer in environmental studies, politics, and anthropology at Bates College.
Reviews for Reimagining Livelihoods: Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment
Interesting, imaginative, and extraordinarily well written, Reimagining Livelihoods is an exemplary case of how to think through the ideas and forces that shape our existence behind our backs. Ethan Miller's work is empirical in the best sense, with the information gleaned from interviews often as enlightening as it is unexpected. -Mick Smith, author of Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Politics, and Saving the Natural World Ethan Miller provides vital tools to imagine and enact ways of life no longer tethered to the constraining categories of economy, society, and environment. Written with passion and insight and deeply grounded in the material realities of Maine life, Reimagining Livelihoods is essential reading for activists, planners, and academics struggling to compose common worlds within late capitalist ecologies. -Bruce Braun, University of Minnesota It tacks between deep theory and rich empirical material to carefully, insidiously open up alternate ways-of-seeing in the readers' minds. -Environmental Values I applaud Miller's ambition in this book and would suggest that the ideas within have the potential to ignite a well-taught classroom and leap far beyond. -American Anthropologist
