Terrestrial Transformations

Thomas K. Park is professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona.James B. Greenberg is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionThomas K. Park and James B. GreenbergChapter 1. The Anthropocene and other noxious conceptsThomas K. Park and James B. GreenbergChapter 2. The Political Ecology of Climate ChangeJames B. Greenberg and Thomas K. ParkChapter 3. Digital Sensing and Human-Environment Relationships in the Face of Climate Variability in Senegal and MauritaniaThomas K. Park, Aminata Niang and Mamadou BaroChapter 4. The Political Ecology of Languagelessness of the Southwest North American Region: Case Studies in the Linguistic Commoditization of Mexican Origin PeopleCarlos Vélez-IbáñezChapter 5. Political Ecology of Guitars and their TonewoodsJames B. GreenbergChapter 6. Indigenous responses to colonialism in an island state: a geopolitical ecology of Kanaky-New CaledoniaSimon Batterbury, Séverine Bouard, and Matthias KowaschChapter 7. An Everyday Politics of Access: The Political Ecology of Infrastructure in Cape Town’s Informal SettlementsAngela StoreyChapter 8. Land Tenu

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