An Ethnography of Global Environmentalism: Becoming Friends of the Earth

ISBN-13: 9780367594206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 254 str.

Caroline Gatt

Opis

This account provides an anthropological study of global environmental activism, via an in-depth ethnographic study of a transnational environmentalist federation, Friends of the Earth International. Key to this global scope is the analysis of activists’ aspirations for and experiments in models for intercultural and inclusive decision-making.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Environmentalism, globality and anthropology in the common world  2. Proposing an Imaginary: Fields of Forces, Vectors and Direction of Attention  3. Field Methods, Emplacement and Scale: Where is Friends of the Earth International?  4. Chronological history and organic time: Being Introduced to FoEI  5. Striving for an exemplary life :Becoming an Environmentalist  6. Rhythms of globality: Developing a sense of belonging to FoEI  7. Communication Technologies and Presence: Being in touch in FoEI  8. The effectiveness of structure: Vectors at work in a transnational federation  9. Experiments with political form and process  10. Epilogue: An Experiment  Appendix

O autorze

Caroline Gatt is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. Her research interests include environmentalism, post-relativist approaches to human diversity, laboratory theatre and design anthropology.