Article ID: CBB319730977

Forum: Commodifying the “Wild”: Anxiety, Ecology and Authenticity in the Late Modern Era (October 2019)

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Forum on commodification of nature, presenting 9 articles presented by a number of environmental historians. Contents: Stefanie Gänger and Michael Bollig, “Introduction: Commodifying the “Wild”: Anxiety, Ecology, and Authenticity in the Late Modern Era”; Stefanie Gänger, “Cinchona Harvest, Deforestation, and “Extinction” in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, 1752–1811”; Timothy James LeCain, “The Consumption of Humans: How the Danger of Grizzly Bear Attacks in American National Parks Became a Commodity”; Paul J. Lane, “Material Desires, Ecological Anxieties, and East African Elephant Ivory in a Long-Term Perspective”; Lorena Córdoba, “White Blood, Black Gold: The Commodification of Wild Rubber in the Bolivian Amazon, 1870–1920”; Michael Bollig, “The Anxieties, Thrills, and Gains of Rarity and Extinction: From Discourses on Remnant Fauna to the Globalized Protection and Marketing of Endangered Wildlife in Namibia’s “Arid Eden””; Jean-Baptiste Pettier, “Re-Enchanting the World: Seahorses’ Magic and the Global Trade of Affect for Wildlife”; Thomas Widlok, “The World as Garden, Laid in Value Chains”; Alexander Aisher, “Extending Perspectivism to India’s “Last Wild Place”: Hunting, Conservation, and Wildlife, and Its Flourishing and Decline, in the Eastern Himalayas”

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Authors & Contributors
Peter Engelke
Petraglia, Michael
Munira Khayyat
Shih, Ashanti
Lai, Franco
Jan Luiten van Zandem
Journals
Environment and History
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
History of Science
Publishers
Editpress
SUNY Press
Zed Books
University of South Carolina Press
University of California Press
UBC Press
Concepts
Environmental history
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Global history
Biological diversity; biodiversity
Anthropocene
Science and society
People
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
Kojève, Alexandre
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
17th century
Places
Lebanon
South Carolina (U.S.)
Paraguay
Eastern Europe
Singapore
Sardinia
Institutions
United Nations
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