Ecological Nostalgias: Memory, Affect and Creativity in Times of Ecological Upheavals (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology Book 26)

"Introducing the study of econostalgias through a variety of rich ethnographic cases, this volume argues that a strictly human centered approach does not account for contemporary longings triggered by ecosystem upheavals. In this time of climate change, this book explores how nostalgia for fading ecologies unfolds into the interstitial spaces between the biological, the political and the social, regret and hope, the past, the present and the future"-- Provided by publisher Introduction / Olivia Angé and David Berliner -- Thinking through nostalgia in anthropologies of the environment and ethnographies of landscape / Roy Ellen -- High Arctic nostalgia : Thule and the ecology of mind -- Kirsten Hastrup -- Nostalgic confessions in the French Cévennes : politics of longings in the neo-peasants initiatives / Madeleine Sallustio -- The nature of loss : ecological nostalgia and cultural politics in Amazonia / Casey High -- Ecological nostalgias and interspecies affect in the highland potato fields of Cuzco (Peru) / Olivia Angé -- The village and the hamlet in the Mixe highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico : nostalgic commitments to working and living together / Perig Pitrou -- Peaceful countryside : ecologies of longing and the temporality of flux in contemporary Mongolia / Richard Irvine -- Melt in the future subjunctive / Cymene Howe -- Afterword / Dominic Boyer Contents Figures and Maps Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Thinking Through Nostalgia in Anthropologies of the Environment and Ethnographies of Landscape Chapter 2 High Arctic Nostalgia: Thule and the Ecology of Mind Chapter 3 Nostalgic Confessions in the French Cévennes: Politics of Longings in the Neo-Peasants Initiatives Chapter 4 The Nature of Loss: Ecological Nostalgia and Cultural Politics in Amazonia Chapter 5 Ecological Nostalgias and Interspecies Affect in the Highland Potato Fields of Cuzco (Peru) Chapter 6 The Village and the Hamlet in the Mixe Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico: Nostalgic Commitments to Working and Living Together Chapter 7 Peaceful Countryside: Ecologies of Longing and the Temporality of Flux in Contemporary Mongolia Chapter 8 Melt in the Future Subjunctive Afterword Index