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Inhabited : wildness and the vitality of the land
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25571
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Phillip Vannini and April Vannini
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 04 V33i
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- People are key elements of wild places. At the same time, human entanglements with wild ecologies involve extractivism, the growth of resource-based economies, and imperial-colonial expansion, activities that are wreaking havoc on our planet. Through an ethnographic exploration of Canada's ten UNESCO Natural World Heritage sites, Inhabited reflects on the meanings of wildness, wilderness, and natural heritage. As we are introduced to local inhabitants and their perspectives, Phillip Vannini and April Vannini ask us to reflect on the colonial and dualist assumptions behind the received meaning of wild, challenging us to reimagine wildness as relational and rooted in vitality. Over the three years they spent in and around these sites, they learned from Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples about their entanglements with each other and with non-human animals, rocks, plants, trees, sky, water, and spirits. The stories, actions, and experiences they encountered challenge conventional narratives of wild places as uninhabited by people and disconnected from culture and society. While it might be tempting to dismiss the idea of wildness as outdated in the Anthropocene era, Inhabited suggests that rethinking wildness suggests a better - if messier - way forward. Part geography and anthropology, part environmental and cultural studies, and part politics and ecology, Inhabited balances a genuine love of nature's vitality with a culturally responsible understanding of its interconnectedness with more-than-human ways of life.-- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- Vitality and Relationality ;Ecological Heritage ; Interlude: Fog ; Entanglement ; Intensity ; Inhabitation ; Interlude: Bear Spray ; Atmosphere ; Interlude: The Lonsome Loon ; Exhaustion ; Interlude : NOT Alone ; Aliveness ; Sacred Ways of Life
- ISBN
- 9780228008965
- Accession Number
- P2022.13
- Call Number
- 04 V33i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Return of the bison : a story of survival, restoration, and a wilder world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26218
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Di Silvestro, Roger L.
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- 04.2 D54r
- Author
- Di Silvestro, Roger L.
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 254 pages : map ; 21 cm
- Subjects
- Bison
- Buffalo
- Conservation
- Environement
- Zoology
- Abstract
- In less than a century, a bison population that once numbered in the millions and stretched across North America was reduced to just a few dozen animals primarily in Yellowstone National Park. DeSilvestro explores one of the greatest conservation comeback stories in American history-- yet its "success" is qualified. Most bison today live in commercial herds, contained like cattle. Are we willing to coexist with them as wild animals who need freedom to roam? -- Excerpt from back cover
- Contents
- In the beginning -- When science favors extinction -- Where buffalo roam, again: early restoration -- American bison step out of the ER -- Private herds : hopes, aspirations, roads to recovery -- Tribes : finding home -- Lost herds : Mexico and Canada -- The way of the wisent -- The last refuge -- Building a future for bison.
- ISBN
- 9781680515831
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 04.2 D54r
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Sustainable communities for a healthy planet
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26562
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2024
- Author
- Zywert, Katharine
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 04 Z9s
- Author
- Zywert, Katharine
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2024
- Physical Description
- xviii, 333 pages ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Ecology
- Plants
- Plants, Medicinal
- Plants, Edible
- Environmentalism
- Environement
- Climate
- Climate change
- Abstract
- "Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet presents an unconventional collection of ideas, practices, and ways of living together with the potential to enable long-term human and planetary health. Grounded in first-hand accounts from researchers, health practitioners, and social innovators across diverse fields, Katharine Zywert's book argues that the most promising approaches often depart substantially from the incentive structures, goals, and mindsets that define the status quo and do not necessarily align with mainstream sustainability discourses. The book instead presents promising approaches that disrupt dominant ideas about mental health, ageing, and chronic illness; circumvent exploitative markets for medications, medical technologies, and professionalized care; attend not only to the health of individual human bodies, but to the health of internal ecologies, human populations, nonhuman species, and the planet as a whole; and embody alternative, more inclusive ways of practicing medicine within communities and ecosystems. The stories assembled in this book illustrate how human beings might live healthy lives, supported by health systems that are not dependent on perpetual economic growth. Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet challenges conventional ways of thinking about the future of health systems and asks hard questions about what it takes to cultivate human and planetary health in a time of rapid ecological, economic, and social change."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 1487548036
- Accession Number
- P2024.06
- Call Number
- 04 Z9s
- Collection
- Archives Library
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