Sustainability Unpacked

Vogt, Kristiina A.; Patel-Weynand, Toral; Shelton, Maura; Vogt, Daniel J.; Gordon, John; Mukumoto, Cal; Suntana, Asep; Roads, Patricia A.

doi:10.4324/9781849776653

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“…To Harvard archaeologist Gordon Willey, Vogt described his and Miller's prospective fieldwork as an opportunity to "stake out a good claim for Harvard down there before a number of other Universities move into the situation (which is really ripe for study) and start doing the same kind of culture change study I want to do." 6 Writing to Stanford medical anthropologist Benjamin Paul, Vogt averred that "the cultural situation in Chiapas is so ripe for study that I am pretty certain if I don't move on it this summer in some form, one or more other Departments of Anthropology at other universities are going to beat me to the draw." 7 To both colleagues, Vogt inquired into pathways for securing about $3,500 to support travel and a Land Rover purchase.…”

Section: Roa Ds a N D Rov Er Pl A Nsmentioning

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Rearview mirrors: Harvard Land Rover interviews and the ethnographic drive in midcentury Chiapas

Watson

2023

Anthropology and Humanism

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SummaryIn 1951, Mexico's Instituto Nacional Indigenista (INI) established a coordinating center for a pilot development project in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. INI administrators sought to draw Tzotzil‐ and Tzeltal‐speaking indigenous communities that radiated around San Cristóbal into identification with the Mexican state and its political mythology of racial‐cultural mixture, or mestizaje. To do so, the INI built roads. State investment in the transportation infrastructure of indigenous Chiapas enabled the geographical mobility of scores of U.S. anthropologists and students who used these roads to access “closed corporate communities” such as Zinacantán during the late‐1950s and 1960s. Working from archived correspondence and field notes, this essay examines Harvard Chiapas Project founder Evon Vogt's early project interviews conducted on these roads in a Land Rover. Reading the Land Rover as a space‐making technology of ethnographic rapport, I ask how such vehicles have structured ethnographic forms of intimacy and attachment and whether they render the interview space a site of capitalist capture. I ultimately refract a surfaced critique of the interview form's capitalist coloniality through a weak‐theoretical evocation of the Land Rover's social, technological, and symbolic indeterminacy.

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Section: Roa Ds a N D Rov Er Pl A Nsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rearview mirrors: Harvard Land Rover interviews and the ethnographic drive in midcentury Chiapas

Watson

2023

Anthropology and Humanism

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“…Consensus on definitions, metrics, and models for resilient supply chains does not exist, and a comprehensive, systems-based view is necessary for furthering the field of resilience (Golan et al 2020 ). Although the concept of measuring resilience of FEW systems was proposed almost a decade ago (Vogt et al 2012 ), no study in the literature focuses on measuring resilience of FEW systems to a sudden labor shortage. To build more resilient FEW systems, there is a gap between what we know (e.g., how much labor, water, and energy are required to produce certain amount of food) and what we do not know about the impact of labor shortage on the performance of FEW systems.…”

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Resilience of food, energy, and water systems to a sudden labor shortage

Karan

Asgari

2021

Environ Syst Decis

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“…Food provision as an energy service. The provisioning of food involves a vast range of energetic processes along relevant supply chains (Notarnicola et al 2017;Vogt et al 2012): from farming all the way into people's refrigerators. In fact, it includes energy consumed before farming even starts in terms of, for example, seed production.…”

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A corridors and power-oriented perspective on energy-service demand and needs satisfaction

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Steinberger

Pirgmaier

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Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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In this article, we explore the concept of consumption corridors as it might apply to energy use, with specific attention to both wellbeing and power relations. We employ the distinction between energy provisioning and human-need satisfaction to explore different configurations of energy use, as well as their possible dynamics. Specifically, we draw on past research documenting the benefits of decoupling our thinking about energy services and needs satisfaction and use it as a basis to identify scenarios characterized by different degrees of access to energy services and levels of resource demand. We then translate this perspective to the logic of sustainable consumption corridors. We delineate how minimum and maximum consumption standards would relate to combinations of energy-service demand and needs-satisfier access. Finally, we explore how power dynamics, specifically exercises of discursive power, might move societal trajectories toward sustainable combinations of energy provisioning and needs satisfaction or away from them.

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Sustainability Unpacked

Cited by 10 publications

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Rearview mirrors: Harvard Land Rover interviews and the ethnographic drive in midcentury Chiapas

Rearview mirrors: Harvard Land Rover interviews and the ethnographic drive in midcentury Chiapas

Resilience of food, energy, and water systems to a sudden labor shortage

A corridors and power-oriented perspective on energy-service demand and needs satisfaction

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