Unsustainability in action: An ethnographic examination

• Main Authors: RANDLE, Sayd, BAKER, Lauren, CLAUS, C. Anne, HEBDON, Chris, KELEMAN, Alder, DOVE, Michael R.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: unsustainability; power relations; political economies; indigenous peoples; extractive industries; development model; corporate interests; local ownership; territories; conservationists; coral festival; Okinawa; mainland Japan; environmental awareness; subvert; reinforce; extra-local power dynamics; assumed temporality; swidden agriculture; German renewable energy policy; childhood malnutrition; Bolivia; environmental futures; economic futures; Anthropology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/100
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This chapter presents a pair of case studies that illustrate ways in which claims about unsustainability function to either challenge or reproduce current power relations and political economies. In Peru, indigenous peoples point to the unsustainability of extractive industries and other state-spons...