Cultural Ecologies of the Land: A Restless Dynamic of People and Place [Hardcover]

Preamble;?Introduction; Part One: The Framework; 1. Foundations; 2. Human Agency; 3. Making Sense; 4. Adaptive Change; Part Two: Living in the Land; 5. Making a Living; 6. Making Stories; 7. Making Place; Part Three: Regeneration; 8. Days of Future Passed; 9. Governance; 10. Education; Conclusion; Postscript.

Cultural Ecologies of the Land?is a radical and challenging reassessment of the way we relate to the land and to infrastructure.?It is a multi-layered account of people and environment shaping each other through cumulative, moment-to-moment, day-to-day change, and a template for thinking about place, locality, belonging, and identity.

Cultural Ecologies of the Land?offers richly textured engagements with communities, ecologies, landscapes and places, drawing on a lifetime of conversations, fieldwork, scholarship, teaching and travel. Simultaneously accessible, profound and wide-ranging, it spans disciplines and genres.?-?Professor James D Sidaway, National University of Singapore.

?In?Cultural Ecologies of the Land,?Patrick Dillon returns to, and reworks, with interesting case-studies, historically grounded understandings of the indissoluble link between culture and ecology. These broadening perspectives are urgent in our rapidly changing world.?-?Emeritus Professor Barbara Bender, anthropologist.

?Cultural Ecologies of the Land?is a book we have been waiting for, but had not imagined. In relating culture to place as a counterpoint to infrastructure, it is both a masterly interrogation of the relationships, and a source of hope for the future.?- Emeritus Professor Robert Cameron, Evolutionary Ecologist.