An introduction to environmental anthropology

Kopnina, Helen; Shoreman-Ouimet, Eleanor

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“…Recently, a small number of anthropologists, along with the champions of AR and environmental protection, have leveled criticism against the humanist anthropocentric worldview for its presumption that only human beings are morally considerable and that human rights trump those of other species ( Sodikoff, 2011 ). Within the larger discipline of anthropology and related fields, environmental or ecological anthropology (e.g., Kopnina and Shoreman-Ouimet, 2011 ; Shoreman-Ouimet and Kopnina, 2016 ) “more-than-human” geography (e.g., Whatmore, 2006 ), posthumanist anthropology (e.g., Fuentes, 2012 ; Rajagopalan, 2016 ; Salazar Parreñas, 2015 ), and multispecies ethnography (e.g., Kirksey and Helmreich, 2010 ; Ogden et al., 2013 ) have all addressed the complex relationship between humans and nonhumans.…”

Section: Animals Organisms Species and Habitats: Ethical Approachementioning

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Beyond multispecies ethnography: Engaging with violence and animal rights in anthropology

Kopnina

2017

Critique of Anthropology

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Anthropologists have mediated between discriminated communities and outsiders, helping to influence public opinion through advocacy work. But can anthropological advocacy be applied to the case of violence against nonhumans? Ethical inquiries in anthropology also engage with the manifold ways through which human and nonhuman lives are entangled and emplaced within wider ecological relationships, converging in the so-called multispecies ethnography, but failing to account for exploitation. Reflecting on this omission, this article discusses the applicability of engaged anthropology to the range of issues from the use of nonhumans in medical experimentation and food production industry, to habitat destruction, and in broader contexts involving violence against nonhumans. Concluding that the existing forms of anthropological engagement are inadequate in dealing with the massive scale of nonhuman abuse, this article will suggest directions for a radical anthropology that engages with deep ecology, animal rights, animal welfare, and ecological justice.

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Section: Animals Organisms Species and Habitats: Ethical Approachementioning

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Beyond multispecies ethnography: Engaging with violence and animal rights in anthropology

Kopnina

2017

Critique of Anthropology

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“…This research reports on an ethnographic approach to understanding SE in this particular situation. There is a dearth of ethnographic work done in environmental education in particular (Kopnina, 2013), and this dissertation attempts to address this gap in the field.…”

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‘Not for everyone, but kind of amazing’: institutional friction and the nature of sustainability education

Henderson

2014

Environmental Education Research

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SynopsisSustainability has become a popular normative social and ecological goal to address conditions of unsustainability. Such terms are often definitionally and contextually vague, warranting research into forms of sustainability education as they actually exist in practice. This study ethnographically explored the theory and practice of sustainability education in an institutionalized setting, including its varied ecological, educational and infrastructural implications. It reports on a three-year institutional ethnography of an elite private school in the northeastern United States. The purpose of the research was to investigate the rootedness, emergence and subsequent embodiment of sustainability education infrastructure, including the physical and ideational construction of a 'living building' on the school's campus.Rooted in a critical realist philosophical approach toward nature, and using ecosystem complexity theory, ecological communication dynamics and political ecology as theoretical lenses, and phronetic case and abductive gestalt analyses as analytic tools, I detailed how the institution engaged in elite-driven change with social, cultural, political and material implications in their immediate and surrounding community. For example, the case study of an animal slaughter experience revealed how specific institutional frictions played out in the school's change process. By tracing particular frictions through the institutional change process, I illuminated the unique cultural and socio-material dimensions present as the institution shiftedoften controversially -to develop and accommodate the nascent sustainability education infrastructure.The emergent conception of sustainability education manifested as the downshifting of social, political and ecological responsibility to the local level and represented a larger trend in the neo-liberalization of environmentalism. I also showed how sustainability education represented a privileged, progressive, upper-class ecochic sensibility in this school and discussed implications relative to conditions of Green Capitalism and Late Industrialism. I observed the eco-chic phenomenon in the artisanal nature of food production, in mindfulness educational activities, in marketing green lifestyles to prospective parents and in the implementation and mystification of efficient green building technologies. Overall, I found that sustainability education involved a classed expectation of a virtuous future life, and this was

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“…In recent years, it has become apparent that our society is facing an environmental challenge as never before experienced (Burke et al, 2017; Kopnina & Shoreman‐Ouimet, 2011). Consequently, environmentally related matters are playing a critical role in our socio‐economic framework, increasing the demand for environmentally friendly firms (Gadenne et al, 2009; Peiró‐Signes & Segarra‐Oña, 2018) and greener products (Borin et al, 2013).…”

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The links between active cooperation and eco‐innovation orientation of firms: A multi‐analysis study

2022

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The environmental orientation of companies is key for firms to gain a competitive advantage against peers. However, the high level of novelty and uncertainty involved with eco‐innovations requires additional knowledge and capabilities that go beyond the firm and that can be achieved through cooperation. Thus, it is crucial to analyse how cooperation affects the elements that drive eco‐innovation. This study tests the impact of cooperation on the environmental orientation of companies while innovating using structural equation modelling with partial least squares and multigroup analysis and a fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis for a sample of Spanish companies. Results suggest that companies that do not cooperate are less eco‐innovation‐oriented and show lower dependence on external information sources, although their impact on the orientation to product and process innovation is higher. This work leads to some theoretical conclusions and implications for researchers and practitioners.

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An introduction to environmental anthropology

Abstract: As so many of us are all too aware, we have entered the Anthropocene, marked by the large and active imprint that humans have made on the global environment. Environmental social sciences

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Beyond multispecies ethnography: Engaging with violence and animal rights in anthropology

Beyond multispecies ethnography: Engaging with violence and animal rights in anthropology

‘Not for everyone, but kind of amazing’: institutional friction and the nature of sustainability education

The links between active cooperation and eco‐innovation orientation of firms: A multi‐analysis study

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