Mahogany intertwined
Enviromateriality between Mexico, Fiji, and the Gibson Les Paul
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2391063 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jose Martinez-Reyes (University of Massachusetts Boston), José E Martínez-Reyes (0009-0005-5794-0591, University of Massachusetts Boston, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 313-329 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1359183515594644 |
| OpenAlex | W1877754495 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article builds a theory of enviromateriality through a global ethnography that engages both the material culture and materiality of a tree species, Honduran mahogany ( Swietenia macrophylla), and the global political ecology of forest conservation. The author seeks to understand what Adorno calls the 'constellation' between people and mahogany by tracing human-nature relations through the global commodity chain focusing on one particular artefact, the Gibson Les Paul, an iconic solid wood electric guitar made primarily of mahogany grown in Mexico and Fiji. Enviromateriality considers three phases in which to examine the material and materiality in a variety of processes that are interconnected. These phases allow for an examination of local community relations with mahogany as trees and products, and whether certified mahogany helps create sustainability and social justice. The author also examines guitar players' relations with their mahogany guitars, particularly focusing on the aesthetics that make the Les Paul desired, as well as the sonic and tonal agentic force that they consider mahogany to have
Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Geography · Guitar · Materiality (auditing · Political ecology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sustainability · Swietenia macrophylla · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Diverse Musicological Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Ecology · Forestry
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Selling scarcity
Keeping time with trees
Of ships and soundboxes
The omitted variable
Revisiting 'Rosewood democracy in the political forests of Madagascar
A sound track to ecological crisis
Resource-Sensitive Global Production Networks
Reforesting About Music? Auralities of Restoration in Southern Mexico City
Sustainability objects as performative definitions of sustainability
Noise
Mahogany
The Environmentalism of the Poor
Global Political Ecology
Materiality
Ingold, Tim. Being Alive, Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description. 2011. London, Routledge
Reimagining Political Ecology
On Understanding Too Quickly
Being Alive
The Gift
Friction
Being Alive
Protecting the Environment the Natural Way
Science and colonial expansion
Standardizing sustainable development? The Forest Stewardship Council’s plantation policy review process as neoliberal environmental governance
Instruments of Desire
Handbook of Material Culture
Noise, the Political Economy of Music
The Perception of the Environment
Science and Colonial Expansion
Music and the materialization of identities
Concessionary Politics
After Nature
Stone age or plastic age
Materials against materiality
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |