UID:
almafu_9961615308302883
Format:
1 online resource (427 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-8394-7012-9
Series Statement:
The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America
Content:
Biodiversity should not be understood in biological terms only and as a thing apart from society, but rather as biocultural diversity present in the social world and in various cultures. Such a perspective might allow to relieve social conflicts as well as abuses of power, and slow the appropriation of the biosphere. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on biodiversity in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions enrich contemporary debates surrounding the genealogy of the Anthropocene in Latin America with critical perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Academic Advisory Board -- General Introduction -- The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis -- Periods of the Anthropocene's Genealogy in Latin America -- Colonial Period -- From the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- From 1950 to the Present -- Anthropocene Regions in Latin America -- Southern Cone -- Andes -- Amazon -- Mesoamerica -- Caribbean -- Biodiversity -- Final Words -- Colonial Period -- Introduction: Biodiversity and the Anthropocene in Colonial Latin America -- References -- Biodiversity in the Southern Cone in the Colonial Period -- Early Connections with "Others" in Colonial Spaces -- Intruders, yet Colonial Partners -- Horses: the Novel Deities -- Cattle as Environmental Vocation -- Colonial Ontologies of the Anthropocene: Some Current Considerations -- References -- Biodiversity in the Andes in the Colonial Period -- Livestock and Conquest -- The Expansion of European Livestock in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century -- Livestock and the Rise of the Colonial Mining Economy: Potosí and the Andean South (1570-1600) -- The Reception of European Livestock by Indigenous People -- Conclusion -- References -- Biodiversity in the Amazon in the Colonial Period -- Early Gestures: The Arrival of Spaniards and Portuguese during the Colonial Period -- How Europeans Registered Biological Diversity in the Amazon -- Natural Knowledge as Political Argument -- Conclusion -- References -- Biodiversity in Mesoamerica in the Colonial Period -- Encounter, Colonization, and Impacts on Mesoamerican Biodiversity -- Final Remarks -- References -- Biodiversity in the Caribbean in the Colonial Period -- Plantation and Counter‐Plantation Animalities -- Provision Grounds and the Ambiguous Materiality of Freedom -- Counter‐Plantation Futures -- References -- From the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950.
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Introduction: Biodiversity and the Anthropocene in Latin America from the Mid‑Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- References -- Biodiversity in the Southern Cone from the Mid‑Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Environmental Knowledge -- Extracting Plants and Animals -- Agriculture and Rural Colonization -- Forestry and Deforestation -- Cattle and Animal Husbandry -- Fish Farming -- Neobiotic Transformations -- The Protection of Biodiversity -- Impacting Socio‐Biodiversity: Conquest, Colonization, and First Acceleration -- References -- Biodiversity in the Andes from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Naming, Controlling, and Classifying the Biodiversity of the Tropical Andes -- Exploiting Biodiversity: Plantations and Extractive Enclaves -- Coast -- Sierra -- Eastern Piedmont -- Biodiversity and Andean Subsistence Agriculture -- Domestication Processes -- The Advance over the Agricultural Frontier -- Conservation Strategies and the Development of Protected Areas -- Conclusions -- References -- Biodiversity in the Amazon from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Amazon: The Gestation of a World -- Collections and Commerce: Amazonian Biodiversity as Economic and Scientific Value in Validating New Scientific Theories -- Prospecting Amazonian Biodiversity -- The "Goblin of the Amazon" -- Final Considerations -- References -- Biodiversity in Mesoamerica from the Mid‐Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- The Clash between Two Models of Relationship with Nature -- Two Ways to Relate to Biodiversity: Mesoamerican Civilization vs. European Colonialism -- Foundations of Mesoamerican Environmental Thinking -- Community Agroforestry Systems in Resistance to Intensive Resource Extraction -- The Claim to Traditional Knowledge: Ethno‐Botany and Ethno‐Agroecology -- Agrarian Capitalism and the Americanization of the Central American Landscape.
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Environmental Apocalypse, Mexican Revolution, and Conservation Policies -- Conservation Efforts in Central America -- Conclusions -- References -- Biodiversity in the Caribbean from the Mid‑Nineteenth Century to 1950 -- Logging -- Agroecosystems: Between Plantations and Smallholdings -- Livestock and Animals -- Protection of Flora and Fauna -- References -- From 1950 to the Present -- Introduction: Biodiversity and the Anthropocene in Latin America from 1950 to the Present -- References -- Biodiversity in the Southern Cone from 1950 to the Present -- The Southern Cone as Biocultural Mosaic -- "The Republic of Soy" -- Foreign Forests and Indigenous Rights -- Maritime Monocultures: Salmon Farms and Social Conflict -- Conserving Biodiversity -- The Anthropocene and the Unforeseen -- References -- Biodiversity in the Andes from 1950 to the Present -- Biodiversity's Axes -- Agrobiodiversity -- Trends of the Great Acceleration -- Extinction -- Conclusions -- References -- Biodiversity in the Amazon from 1950 to the Present -- Humans and Nonhumans in the Amazon since the Great Acceleration -- Threats to Flora and Fauna from 1950 onward -- Predation: Capture, Commerce, and Consumption -- Introduction of Exotic Species -- Sociobiodiversity and Biocultural Diversity in Amazonia -- Final Considerations -- References -- Biodiversity in Mesoamerica from 1950 to the Present -- Biodiversity: the Theoretical‐Historical Reflection on a Fragile Wealth -- Biodiversity: the Difficulty of Conservation in National and International Policies -- Status of Mesoamerican Biodiversity -- Central America -- Mexico -- Experiences of Community Biodiversity Management in Mesoamerica -- The Indigenous Peasant Coordinator of Community Agroforestry in Central America (ACICAFOC) -- Cuetzalan, Mexico: Biodiversity, Culture, and Defense of the Territory.
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Santa Maria Yavesia, Sierra Juarez de Oaxaca: Forests and Commonality -- Conclusions -- References -- Biodiversity in the Caribbean from 1950 to the Present -- Political Governance and the Influences on Biodiversity Documentation -- Caribbean's Biogeography -- Floral and Faunal Examples of Biodiversity within the Caribbean -- Culture and Folklore - the Social Side of Biodiversity -- Caribbean's Threat to Biodiversity 1950 to Today -- International Treaties, Agreements, and Biodiversity Programs within the Caribbean -- Conclusion and Recommendation -- References -- Appendix -- Biographical Notes.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-8376-7012-0
Language:
English
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