Ecological Ambivalence, Complexity, and Change [electronic resource] : Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities.

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Ambivalence-More Than an Expression of Disorder and Difference -- Ambivalence as an Approach of Lived Interdisciplinarity -- Notes -- Part I Conceptual Facets -- 1 Ecological Transformation and the Implications of Spatial Scale -- Introduction -- The (Neo)Colonialism of Climate Change -- It's the Geography-Regional Differences and Spatial Distances -- The Spatial Dimension of Reluctance

Back to the National and Regional -- Dimension of Climate Change and Its Consequences -- Dimension of the Commons -- Significance of Climate and Environmental Issues -- Inaction and Psychological Distance -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Climate Solidarity, Time, and Ambivalence: On a New Term and Its Historical Legacy -- Introduction -- Solidarity and Modern Society -- Ecological-Social Transformation Conflicts -- Solidarity Between Work and Consumption -- Climate Solidarity and New Alliances -- Notes -- 3 Transformation And/of "Colonial Tropes": Latin American Narrative Palimpsests -- Introduction

Welcome to the Selva -- Transformative Ambivalence -- Notes -- 4 Interactions of Efficiency, Consistency, and Sufficiency Across Levels: Assessing Innovation Tensions Through the Lens of Paradox Theory -- Introduction -- A Primer On Paradox Theory -- Links of Paradoxes and Tensions With the Role of Innovation for Global Sustainability -- Paradoxes and Tensions From the Individual to the Global Level -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Toxic Commons and the Politics of Ambivalence: Re-Imagining Toxic Legacy Sites -- Introduction -- Studying Toxic Commons Beyond Remediation and Clean-Up

Introducing the Age of the Toxic Commons -- Toxic Commons as Unruly and Uncontainable -- Invoking the Negative Commons -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part II Ambivalences in Practice -- 6 In Praise of Ambivalence: Reflections On Experiences of Pollution and Remediation -- Introduction -- Approaching Ambivalence From the Environmental Justice Context -- The Making of an Away -- Third Time's a Charm, Or the Return of the Away -- Living With Contamination -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 7 Global Waste: On the Ambivalence of Wealth, Health, and Contradictory Development Models -- Introduction

Wealth, Health, Production, Consumption, Waste, and Destruction: Connecting the Dots -- Decoupling Wealth From Waste Production: The Circular Economy -- Decoupling the Good Life From Production and Consumption: Degrowth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Farming the Wind: Aeolian Politics and the Sacred Desertscapes (Orans) of Rajasthan -- Introduction -- The Politics of (Renewable) Energy in Postcolonial India: Ambivalences, Ambiguities, and Tensions -- Revitalizing Orans: Challenging Coloniality Through Interrogating Wasteland Narratives

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This book provides a systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the conflicts, issues and tensions associated with today's ecological transformation processes from an environmental humanities perspective. Of interest to researchers, academics and students studying environmental humanities, the social sciences and environment sciences.