Biodiversity - Handbook of the Anthropocene in Latin America II
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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Bielefeld :
transcript Verlag
2024.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis: Perspectives from Latin America
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009841433506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
