Reimagining Livelihoods

Ethan Miller is lecturer in environmental studies, politics, and anthropology at Bates College.

• ContentsIntroduction: Troubling Economy, Society, and Environment in MainePart I. Problematizing the Trio1. Constitutional Geometry: Shapes of PowerPart II. Tracing Hegemonies2. Forces and Domains: Dynamics of Mastery and Submission3. Enclosures and Outsides: Making and Unmaking Boundaries 4. A Diagram of Power: Nature-Culture, Capital-State, and DevelopmentPart III. Decomposing the Trio5. Cracks in the Assemblage: Uncertainties, Resistances, and Swerves 6. Multiplying Articulations: How Many Definitions Can Maine’s Professionals Produce? Part IV. (Re)composing Livelihoods 7. Ecopoiesis: Making Habitats and Inhabitants8. Ecological Livelihoods: Beyond the Trio9. Tools for a Politics of Ecological Livelihood10. Ontopolitical Coordinates: Rearticulating Struggles in MaineConclusion: Becoming OtherwiseAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"Interesting, imaginative, and extraordinarily well written, Reimagining Livelihoods is an exemplary case of how to think through the ideas and forces that shape our existence behind our backs. Ethan Miller's work is empirical in the best sense, with the information gleaned from interviews often as enlightening as it is unexpected."-Mick Smith, author of Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Politics, and Saving the Natural World"Ethan Miller provides vital tools to imagine and enact ways of life no longer tethered to the constraining categories of economy, society, and environment. Written with passion and insight and deeply grounded in the material realities of Maine life, Reimagining Livelihoods is essential reading for activists, planners, and academics struggling to compose common worlds within late capitalist ecologies."-Bruce Braun, University of Minnesota"It tacks between deep theory and rich empirical material to carefully, insidiously open up alternate ways-of-seeing in the readers’ minds."-Environmental Values "I applaud Miller’s ambition in this book and would suggest that the ideas within have the potential to ignite a well-taught classroom and leap far beyond."-American Anthropologist