Questioning a Posthumanist Political Ecology
Ontologies, Environmental Materialities, and the Political in Iron Age South India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5947484 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew M Bauer (0000-0002-6668-8587, Stanford University Department of Anthropology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 157-174 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1551-823X • E-ISSN: 1551-8248 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/apaa.12104 |
| OpenAlex | W2810250477 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 64 |
This paper examines the political ecology of an 80 km2region of central Karnataka, detailing how social relationships of inequality were linked with the production of a variety of meaningful places and environmental resources in Iron Age (1200-300 BCE) South India. Such analysis is then intersected with modern framings of inselberg landforms as spaces of "Nature," demonstrating how such framings potentially silence humans in their environmental history and reproduce a nature-society binary that has substantial implications for the politics of land use and conservation today. In doing so, the paper critically considers the implications and limitations of a posthumanist political ecology that advocates nonhumans as "actors" that contribute to socio-political histories for understanding the politics of environmental production, both past and present
Aesthetics · Biology · Environmental ethics · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Silence · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure
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Entangled
| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |