The Ecotourism-Extraction Nexus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ecotourism-Extraction Nexus write by Bram Büscher. This book was released on 2013-08-15. The Ecotourism-Extraction Nexus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecotourism and natural resource extraction may be seen as contradictory pursuits, yet in reality they often take place side by side, sometimes even supported by the same institutions. Existing academic and policy literatures generally overlook the phenomenon of ecotourism in areas concurrently affected by extraction industries, but such a scenario is in fact increasingly common in resource-rich developing nations. This edited volume conceptualises and empirically analyses the ‘ecotourism-extraction nexus’ within the context of broader rural and livelihood changes in the places where these activities occur. The volume’s central premise is that these seemingly contradictory activities are empirically and conceptually more alike than often imagined, and that they share common ground in ethnographic lived experiences in rural settings and broader political economic structures of power and control. The book offers theoretical reflections on why ecotourism and natural resource extraction are systematically decoupled, and epistemologically and analytically re-links them through ethnographic case studies drawing on research from around the world. It should be of interest to students and professionals engaged in the disciplines of geography, anthropology and development studies.
Ecotourism and Cultural Production
Ecotourism and Cultural Production - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ecotourism and Cultural Production write by V. Davidov. This book was released on 2013-11-19. Ecotourism and Cultural Production available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ecotourism is a unique facet of globalization, promising the possibility of reconciling the juggernaut of development with ecological/cultural conservation. Davidov offers a comparative analysis of the issue using a case study of indigenous Kichwa people of Ecuador and their interactions with globalization and transnational systems.
Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities
Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities write by Sverker Sörlin. This book was released on 2022-12-22. Resource Extraction and Arctic Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For decades, a post-Cold War narrative heralded a 'new Arctic', with melting ice and snow and accessible resources that would build sustainable communities. Today, large parts of the Arctic are still trapped in the path dependencies of past resource extraction. At the same time, the impetus for green transitions and a 'new industrialism' spell opportunities to shift the development model and build new futures for Arctic residents and Indigenous peoples. This book examines the growing Arctic resource dilemma. It explores the 'new extractivist paradigm' that posits transitioning the region's long-standing role of delivering minerals, fossil energy, and marine resources to one providing rare earth elements, renewable power, wilderness tourism, and scientific knowledge about climate change. With chapters from a global, interdisciplinary team of researchers, new opportunities and their implications for Arctic communities and landscapes are discussed, alongside the pressures and uncertainties in a region under geopolitical and environmental stress.
The Violent Technologies of Extraction
The Violent Technologies of Extraction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Violent Technologies of Extraction write by Alexander Dunlap. This book was released on 2019-10-15. The Violent Technologies of Extraction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering a thought provoking theoretical conversation around ecological crisis and natural resource extraction, this book suggests that we are on a trajectory geared towards total extractivism guided by the mythological Worldeater. The authors discuss why and how we have come to live in this catastrophic predicament, rooting the present in an original perspective that animates the forces of global techno-capitalist development. They argue that the Worldeater helps us make sense of the insatiable forces that transform, convert and consume the world. The book combines this unique approach with detailed academic review of critical agrarian studies and political ecology, the militarization of nature and the conventional and ‘green’ extraction nexus. It seeks radical reflection on the role people play in the construction and perpetuation of these crises, and concludes with some suggestions on how to tackle them.
The Recreational Frontier
The Recreational Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Recreational Frontier write by Michael Kleinod. This book was released on 2017. The Recreational Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study treats ecotourism in National Protected Areas of Lao PDR as a “recreational frontier” which instrumentalizes the recreation of human natures in capitalism’s centers for that of nonhuman natures at capitalism’s (closing) frontiers. This world-ecological practice of ecorational instrumentality – i.e. of nature domination in the name of “Nature” – presents a remedy for capitalism’s crisis that is itself crisis-ridden, enacting a central tension of ecocapitalism: that between “conservation” and “development”. This epistemic-institutional tension is traced through the preconditions, modes and effects of ecotourism in Laos by gradually zooming from the most general scale of societal nature relations into the most detailed intricacies of ecotouristic practice. The combination of Bourdieu, Marx and Critical Theory enables a systematic analysis of the recreational frontier as enactment of various contradictions deriving from the “false-and-real” Nature/Society dualism.
