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oapen-20.500.12657-876082024-03-28T14:03:16Z Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia Kuyakanon, Riamsara Diemberger, Hildegard Sneath, David Cosmopolitical Ecologies,landscapes,mountains,terrains,water sources,socio-political,Holy Mountain,Young Man,Uninvited Guests,Cosmopolitical Ecologies,Central Tibetan Administration,Mae Chaem,Yul Lha,China Town,Limi Valley,Reindeer Herders,Je Khenpo,Sacred Natural Sites,Mountain Deities,Natural Beauty,Landscape Deities,Haze Crisis,Bull Camel,Bhutanese Context,Territorial Deities,Nonhuman Personhood,Contract Farming,Non-human Persons,Tibetan Landscapes,Political Ecology,Dpal Ldan thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world. This volume presents a comparative, place-based exploration of landscapes across Asia and the entities, practices and knowledges that inhabit them. Rather than treating sacred mountains, terrains and water sources as self-contained, esoteric religious phenomena, the authors consider them within critical 'cosmopolitical ecologies' framings in which non-human entities are engaged as actors in the socio-political arena. The chapters include case studies of healing springs recognized by governments, and sacred mountains that are addressed by heads of states and Communist Party cadres, or that speak to the faithful through spirit mediums in a politics of re-enchantment. Contributors explore the diverse ways in which non-human entities such as forest spirits, reindeer, mountains and Buddhist Masters of the Land are engaged by humans to navigate environmental change and address a range of ecological threats from large-scale mining to climate change. Cosmopolitical ecologies approaches encompass the healing power of topography as well as transformative intimacies with other-than-human beings such as sparrows within an Islamic eco-theological poetic setting. In this light the book observes dynamic and creative processes of cosmological innovation including the repurposing of ritual to address challenges such as the Covid-19 epidemic. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environment and society across disciplinary perspectives in general, and to anthropologists, human geographers, political ecologists, indigenous studies, area studies, environmental sciences and environmental humanities scholars in particular. 2024-02-13T09:03:36Z 2024-02-13T09:03:36Z 2022 book 9781003036272 9780367477363 9781032137766 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87608 eng Routledge Environmental Humanities Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003036272 10.4324/9781003036272 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb e854387c-7161-4813-8680-c08141d3d378 9781003036272 9780367477363 9781032137766 Routledge open access
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Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia offers a unique insight into the non-human and spiritual dimensions of environmental management in a changing world.
This volume presents a comparative, place-based exploration of landscapes across Asia and the entities, practices and knowledges that inhabit them. Rather than treating sacred mountains, terrains and water sources as self-contained, esoteric religious phenomena, the authors consider them within critical 'cosmopolitical ecologies' framings in which non-human entities are engaged as actors in the socio-political arena. The chapters include case studies of healing springs recognized by governments, and sacred mountains that are addressed by heads of states and Communist Party cadres, or that speak to the faithful through spirit mediums in a politics of re-enchantment. Contributors explore the diverse ways in which non-human entities such as forest spirits, reindeer, mountains and Buddhist Masters of the Land are engaged by humans to navigate environmental change and address a range of ecological threats from large-scale mining to climate change. Cosmopolitical ecologies approaches encompass the healing power of topography as well as transformative intimacies with other-than-human beings such as sparrows within an Islamic eco-theological poetic setting. In this light the book observes dynamic and creative processes of cosmological innovation including the repurposing of ritual to address challenges such as the Covid-19 epidemic.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environment and society across disciplinary perspectives in general, and to anthropologists, human geographers, political ecologists, indigenous studies, area studies, environmental sciences and environmental humanities scholars in particular.
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