Triumph over Nature? Ecological Dependencies and Landscape Modifications in Mediterranean Port Cities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Thinking About Ecological Inter/Dependencies: Introductory Remarks 1
4. Part I: Grounded Transformations: Socio-Ecological Dependencies and Matters of Materiality
5. Landscape Modification as Domination: Pre-Hispanic Human-Environment Relationships in the Southern Maya Lowlands 21
6. Reconfigurations of Asymmetries in Mining in Indonesia 53
7. Asymmetrical Dependencies and Factory Farming: Externalizing Violence 67
8. Ecological Dependencies and Resource- and Climate-Responsive Jaina Shrines Along the Malabar Coast in South India 87
9. Part II: Fluid Interdependencies: Glacial, Coastal, and Maritime Ecologies
10. “Locals Don’t Care About the Natural World”: The Making and Remaking of Ecological Space by Japanese Migrants on the Miyako Islands 113
11. “Mamapacha Is Ill”: The Paradox of Offerings in the Huaytapallana Mountain 137
12. Triumph over Nature? Ecological Dependencies and Landscape Modifications in Mediterranean Port Cities 157
13. Networks of Human and Other-Than-Human Dependencies During Environmental Catastrophes: Kukra Hill, Nicaragua 177
14. Part III: Sacred Entanglements: Spirits, Rituals, and Cosmologies
15. Embodying Worlds: More-Than-Human Interactions Between the Xingu and the Rhine 197
16. Asymmetrical Relations with Other-Than-Human Beings in Some Accounts of Early Travel to Tibet 215
17. More-Than-Human Creation and Ecological (Inter)Dependencies in the Early Medieval Irish and Anglo-Saxon Penitentials 237
18. Part IV: Postcolonial Pasts and Futures: Extractive Dependencies and Ecologies of Resistance
19. Asymmetrical Dependency and Selective Securitization of Climate Change Between the AU and the EU: Insights from the Sahel Region 257
20. Reimagining Human-Nature Relations Through Asymmetrical Ecological (Inter)Dependencies in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Series 283
21. Antithetical to Modernity: Alternative Environmental Sustainability Practices and Ecological Dependencies in Tunde Kelani’s Ti Oluwa ni Ile and Saworoide 299
22. “This Minuscule Orb”: The Material Agency of Opium Poppies in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies 321
23. Notes on Contributors
24. Index of Keywords and Names