{"product_id":"translating-worlds-defending-land-collaborations-for-indigenous-rights-and-environmental-politics-in-amazonia-hardback-9781503640481","title":"Translating Worlds, Defending Land; Collaborations for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Politics in Amazonia (Hardback) 9781503640481","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTranslating Worlds, Defending Land\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCollaborations for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Politics in Amazonia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCasey High (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503640481\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages, 15 halftones, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.404 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Casey High offers us a brilliant ethnography in the form of fluid and intimate writing, which makes the book a page turner. What we see in these pages is the inauguration of a new line of anthropological reflection, in which collaboration between anthropologists and Indigenous people ceases to be a simple method and becomes the very object of analysis.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Aparecida Vilaça, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro \"In this thought-provoking meditation on the dynamics of collaboration, Casey High explores what it means for anthropology and anthropologists when our epistemic partners start doing ethnography their own way, for their own ends.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Stuart Kirsch, University of Michigan \"Narrating in Waorani lands (that are also Ecuadorian), this strong and delicate ethnography also narrates us. Relentlessly written from a 'complex we' the stories it tells make it clear that 'we' have interlocutors \u003ci\u003eand are\u003c\/i\u003e interlocutors and that therefore, 'we' tell stories about 'them' that are also about 'us'... ethnographic relations as moebius strip!\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Marisol de la Cadena, University of California, Davis\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists, lawyers, and other Indigenous groups, they successfully sued the government for selling oil concessions without prior consent. Placing their struggle for territorial autonomy in the global spotlight, this unprecedented legal victory for environmental rights by an Indigenous people reflected the new forms of collaboration emerging in contemporary Amazonia. \u003ci\u003eTranslating Worlds, Defending Land\u003c\/i\u003e explores how Waorani collaborations, whether with environmentalists or academic researchers, bring about new possibilities, challenges, and imaginative horizons.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on fieldwork over a period of twenty-five years, Casey High interrogates what these engagements mean for Indigenous communities and how they offer critical reflection on collaboration as a concept, method, and practice. The alliances, misunderstandings, and conflicts that emerge in these contexts challenge the assumption that productive collaborations reflect—or require—shared purposes, generating important implications for an engaged anthropology open to reconsidering what constitutes ethnographic knowledge and who it is for. As some young Waorani adults become not just community leaders or environmental citizens, but also skilled researchers and ethnographers, translating between Indigenous understandings of land and the Western language conservation, they create a powerful new voice in international environmental politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Maps and Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  A Note on Orthography\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: Sharing Uncommon Ground\u003cbr\u003e  1. Collaborations in an Amazonian Contemporary\u003cbr\u003e  2. Speaking Differently\u003cbr\u003e  3. Translating Environmental Politics\u003cbr\u003e  4. COP26 and the Limits of Collaboration\u003cbr\u003e  5. How Anthropologists Lie\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: Unfinished Business\u003cbr\u003e  Between Hope and Apocalypse: An Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610711027992,"sku":"9781503640481","price":63.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/translating-worlds-defending-land-collaborations-for-indigenous-rights-and-environmental-politics-in-amazonia-hardback-9781503640481","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}