Focusing on moments in which contests over ecology become moments for rethinking the ecology of knowledge, the papers in this volume engage contests over nature in a wide variety of settings, from urban Cape Town and indigenous activism in Peru to Mugabe's Zimbabwe and the Benguela ecosystem fisheries and protected areas in Aboriginal territories of northern Australia. The contributors to this book have been part of an 18-month-long research project that explores contests over ecologies in Southern Africa, Latin America, and Australia. The product of three writing workshops over that period...

Based on more than a decade of research in Palikur lands known as Arukwa in the state of Amapa, Brazil, Knowing the Day, Knowing the World reconsiders the dialogue between formal scholarship and Amerindian ways of knowing. Beginning and ending with a public archaeology project in the region, the book engages head-on with Amerindian ways of thinking about space, time, and personhood. Demonstrating that Palikur knowledges are based on movement and a careful theorization of what it means to be present in a place, the book makes a sustained case for engaging with different ways of knowing....