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  • The Mushroom at the End of the World

    On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    "A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment."—Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian"I'm very grateful to have this book."—Ursula K. Le GuinThe acclaimed and award-winning book about what a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetA Flavorwire and Times Higher Education Book of the YearMatsutake is the most ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene

    The New Nature

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, Feifei Zhou ...
    Nature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help.While the global scientific community recently made headlines by ruling the Anthropocene—an era many date to the Industrial Revolution when human action truly began to transform the planet—did not qualify for a geological epoch quite yet, understanding the nature of human transformation of the Earth is ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Kerb 28

    Decentre - Designing for coexistence in a time of crisis

    by Timothy Morton, Anna Tsing ...
    2020: Bushfires, drought, mass extinction, global heating, oceanic acidification, superstorms, and finally pandemic. Human-centric development has brought great violence to the land and other beings, but we are now enduring a series of crises that force us to confront our ecological entanglement.Ian McHarg argued that landscape architects "must become the stewards of the biosphere". But perhaps ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

    Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

    Edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, Heather Anne Swanson ...
    Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Mushroom at the End of the World

    On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    Narrated by Susan Ericksen ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 7 min

    Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    Co-Winner of the Senior Book Prize, American Ethnological SocietyWhat the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • In the Realm of the Diamond Queen

    Marginality in an Out-of-the-Way Place

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tsing deliberately sets into motion the familiar and ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • New Directions in Anthropology and Environment

    Intersections

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Luisa Maffi, Willett Kempton, Don D. Fowler, Michael R. Dove, Thomas L. Leatherman, Barbara Rose Johnston, J Peter Brosius, Leslie Sponsel, Kathryn R. Winthrop, Alice E. Ingerson, Bonnie J. McCay, Eric C. Poncelet, Donald L. Hardesty ...
    Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent claim that both the physical and the mental world matter, these environmental scholars proceed from the holistic assumption that the physical ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Communities and Conservation

    Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management

    by Janis Alcorn, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, J Peter Brosius, Marcus Colchester, Walter Coward, Louise Fortmann, Augusto B. Gatmaytan, Emmy Hafild, Tania Li, Owen Lynch, Marshall Murphree, Rod Neumann, Peter Poole, Dianne Rocheleau, Richard Schroeder, Richard Chase Smith, Christopher Tarnowski, Roem Topatimasang, Anna Tsing, Ken Wilson ...
    Series series Globalization and the Environment
    The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for sustainable use of resources by local communities. In this volume, leaders who have been instrumental in ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Words in Motion

    Toward a Global Lexicon

    by Itty Abraham ...
    On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Nature in the Global South

    Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia

    by Warwick Anderson, Charles Zerner ...
    A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in these regions are biological classification, state ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD