Anthropology of Sustainability

Marc Brightman is Lecturer in Social and Environmental Sustainability and Co-Director of the Center for the Anthropology of Sustainability at University College London, UK.Jerome Lewis is Reader in Social Anthropology, Co-Director of the Center for the Anthropology of Sustainability, and Co-Director of the Extreme Citizen Science Research Group at University College London, UK.

• 1. Introduction: The Anthropology of Sustainability.- 2. Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene: A Personal View of What is to be Studied.- 3. A Threat to Holocene Resurgence is a Threat to Livability.- 4. What can Sustainability do for Anthropology?.- 5. Interlude: Perceiving Human Nature through Imagined Non-Human Situations.- 6. “They call it Shangri-La”: Sustainable Conservation, or African Enclosures?.- 7. Conservation From Above: Globalising Care for Nature.- 8. Different Knowledge Regimes and some Consequences for "Sustainability".- 9. The Viability of a High Arctic Hunting Community: A Historical Perspective.- 10. Ebola in Meliandou: Tropes of "Sustainability" at Ground Zero.- 11. Anthropology and The Nature-Society-Development Nexus.- 12. The Gaia Complex: Ethical Challenges to an Anthropocentric "Common Future".- 13. Interlude: Performing Gaia.- 14. Sustaining the Pluriverse: The Political Ontology of Territorial Struggles in Latin America.- 15. Traditional People, Collectors of Diversity.- 16. Local Struggles with Entropy: Caipora and Other Demons.- 17. Redesigning Money to Curb Globalization: Can We Domesticate the Root of All Evil?.