This book examines the theme of humananimal interactions contextualized against the idea of the Anthropocene.
Focused on China and its immediate Asian borderlands, this interdisciplinary collection provides a powerful and insightful analysis of the ecological challenges that mankinds traditional activities have created. Through in-depth case studies, each focusing on a particular humananimal dynamic, the book contextualizes and advances the understanding of existing environmental and ecological problems faced by local communities in Asia. In particular, the book hopes to transcend the duality of the nature versus culture debate by locating animal-ecological problems in the behavior of human institutions, beliefs, and practices, which are often affected by prevailing cultural proclivities, political ideologies, economic interests, and scientific agendas. Through interrogation of theoretical concepts of Anthropocene and humananimal binary, the volume highlights the controversial debates that follow their usage as well as their empirical utility understanding human animal interactions historically, thereby engaging a broader interdisciplinary conversation increasingly links these two fields together.
Providing a platform for discussion and dialogue for a wide audience, this book will appeal to students and scholars of environmental history and politics, anthropology, political science and policy studies, China studies, and Asian studies more generally.
This book examines the theme of human-animal interactions contextualized against the idea of the Anthropocene.
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Acknowledgments
1 HumanAnimal Interactions in Anthropocene Asia: Culture, Development, and
the Politics
VICTOR TEO
2 Rearing the Rare: History, Coexistence, and Contestation of Wildlife
Conservation in the Singalila National Park, Darjeeling, India
SANGAY TAMANG
3 A Mongolian Muzzle in the Chinese Grasslands: The Shifting Uses of the
Camel in Nomadic Pastoralism and Festivities
AURORE DUMONT
4 Reindeer, Taiga, Ethnic Culture: State-Forced Resettlement and the Changing
HumanAnimal Interactions in the Aoluguya Ewenki Community
HANG LIN
5 Yak Dzongs in Sikkim Himalayas: Spaces of Conflict in the Making
BHIM SUBBA
6 Turtles amid Healing and Extinction: International Relations and Question
of Animal Agency in the South China Sea Disputes
CARMINA YU UNTALAN
7 From Colonial Science to the Genome Age: The Politics of Asian Giant
Salamander Conservation
LISA YOSHIKAWA
8 The Destiny of Chinas Honeybees in the Anthropocene
KEOKAM KRAISORAPHONG
9 HumanAnimal Interface and Sociocultural Ecology of Zoonotic Disease
Outbreaks in Anthropocene China
SUNGWON YOON
10 Tiger Parks in Anthropocene China: Culture, Capitalism, and the Limits of
Conservation
VICTOR TEO
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Victor Teo is a political scientist specializing in the International Relations of the Indo-Pacific. He was most recently The Cold War Visiting Research Fellow at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK; and Wang Gungwu Visiting Senior Research Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.
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