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Asymmetric Ecologies in Europe and South America around 1800
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Edited by:
Susanne Schlünder
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
About this book
This volume proposes new ways of understanding the historical semantics of the relationship between humans and nature in South America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The authors in this volume use the notion of asymmetry to discuss the representations of and forms of knowledge about nature circulating in, and about, colonial and postcolonial South America. They argue that the production of knowledge about the American natural space widened the power gap between the Europeans colonizers and the local population. This gap, therefore, rests on what we call 'asymmetric ecologies': Eurocentric epistemic orders excluded forms of indigenous, mestizo, and Creole knowledge about nature. By looking at literary as well as non-literary sources, such as natural histories, travel narratives, encyclopaedias or medical writing, the essays in this volume trace the origins of new theoretical paradigms (ecocriticism, biopolitics, transarea studies, etc.), and examine the regional cultural, identity, and epistemic conflicts that undercut the Eurocentric narrative of enlightened modernity.
Author / Editor information
Susanne Schlünder and Rolando Carrasco, Osnabrück University, Germany.
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I Epistemic Asymmetries
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Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Christian von Tschilschke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Fernando Nina Rada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Luis Hachim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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II Asymmetric Identities
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M. Rolando Carrasco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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III Asymmetries in Governmentality and Economy
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Miguel Rosas Buendia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Mauricio Nieto Olarte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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IV Asymmetric Taxonomies
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Ruth Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Olav Krämer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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V Asymmetries in Human-Environment Relations
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Ottmar Ette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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Sandra Rebok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed |
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eBook published on:
August 1, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9783110733211
Hardcover published on:
August 1, 2022
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110738186
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Front matter:
8
Main content:
324
Illustrations:
16
Coloured Illustrations:
14
Keywords for this book
Eurocentrism; Concepts of Nature; Human-Environment Relations; Spanish American Enlightenment
Audience(s) for this book
Researchers interested in 18th and 19th centuries in Spanish America (Literature, History, History of Science, Ecocriticism)
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