1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480086703321

Titolo

Opportunities beyond carbon : looking forward to a sustainable world / / edited by John O'Brien

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carlton, Victoria : , : Melbourne University Press, , 2009

ISBN

0-522-85995-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 356 pages)

Collana

MUP Academic Monographs

Disciplina

363.7387

Soggetti

Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric

Environmental policy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787529703321

Autore

Moore Lisa Jean

Titolo

Buzz : Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee / / Lisa Jean Moore, Mary Kosut

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-8147-6307-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Biopolitics Series

Classificazione

SOC026030NAT010000

Disciplina

638/.1092097471

Soggetti

Human-animal relationships - United States

Honeybee - Effect of human beings on - United States

Honeybee - Social aspects - United States

Honeybee - United States

Bee culture - United States

Bee products - New York (State) - New York

Honeybee - New York (State) - New York

Beekeepers - New York (State) - New York

Urban bee culture - New York (State) - New York

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Catching the Buzz -- 2. Buzzing for Bees -- 3. Saving the Bees -- 4. Being with Bees -- 5. Entangling with Bees -- 6. Breeding Good Citizens -- 7. Deploying Bees -- 8. Becoming Bee Centered -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Winner, 2014 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Animals & Society section of the American Sociological Association Bees are essential for human survival—one-third of all food on American dining tables depends on the labor of bees. Beyond pollination, the very idea of the bee is ubiquitous in our culture: we can feel buzzed; we can create buzz; we have worker bees, drones, and Queen bees; we establish collectives and even have communities that share a hive-mind. In Buzz, authors Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut convincingly argue that the power of bees goes beyond the food cycle, bees are our



mascots, our models, and, unlike any other insect, are both feared and revered. In this fascinating account, Moore and Kosut travel into the land of urban beekeeping in New York City, where raising bees has become all the rage. We follow them as they climb up on rooftops, attend beekeeping workshops and honey festivals, and even put on full-body beekeeping suits and open up the hives. In the process, we meet a passionate, dedicated, and eclectic group of urban beekeepers who tend to their brood with an emotional and ecological connection that many find restorative and empowering. Kosut and Moore also interview professional beekeepers and many others who tend to their bees for their all-important production of a food staple: honey. The artisanal food shops that are so popular in Brooklyn are a perfect place to sell not just honey, but all manner of goods: soaps, candles, beeswax, beauty products, and even bee pollen. Buzz also examines media representations of bees, such as children’s books, films, and consumer culture, bringing to light the reciprocal way in which the bee and our idea of the bee inform one another. Partly an ethnographic investigation and partly a meditation on the very nature of human/insect relations, Moore and Kosut argue that how we define, visualize, and interact with bees clearly reflects our changing social and ecological landscape, pointing to how we conceive of and create culture, and how, in essence, we create ourselves.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786539303321

Autore

Thurner Mark

Titolo

From two republics to one divided : contradictions of postcolonial nationmaking in Andean Peru / / Mark Thurner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, N.C. ; ; London : , : Duke University Press, , 1997

ISBN

0-8223-1812-1

0-8223-7974-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Latin America otherwise : languages, empires, nations

Disciplina

985/.21

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Peru - Ancash - Government relations

Quechua Indians - Government relations

Insurgency - Peru - Huaylas (Province)

Huaylas (Peru : Province) History

Peru History 1829-1919

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- About the Series -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Historicizing the Postcolonial Andean Predicament -- Chapter 2. Unimagined Communities -- Chapter 3. Republicans at War -- Chapter 4. Atusparia's Specter -- Chapter 5. Republican Histories, Postcolonial Legacies -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Culmination of author's work on the Peruvian peasantry and its conflicts with the Eurocentric view of nationhood held by the majority of Peru criollo leadership. An especially important book for 19th-century specialists as well as those scholars examining the evolution of the role of the indigenous population in Peruvian society. As in item #bi 97012022#, author focuses on the 1885 Atusparia rebellion, which suggests a pragmatic and selective approach to Andean politics that cannot be categorized within the context of the assumed evolution of the liberal nation-state nor the subsequently more dominant dependency theories. Intelligent study contributes significantly to Andean peasant politics during Peru's formative years. The work would have benefitted from a separate bibliography"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.