Books by Eleanor Ouimet
"This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the... more "This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology. Characterizing these works are three broad themes: reflexivity, environmental risk assessment, and solutions or alternatives lifeways. In theory, methodology and ethnography, alike, environmental anthropologists are focusing largely on self-reflection - not just on him or herself and their impacts on environmental research; but also the reflexive qualities of their subjects and the extent to which these individuals are questioning their own environmental behavior. Contributors are furthermore confronting the very notion of ‘natural resources’ in granting non-human species their subjectivity and arguing for deeper understanding of ‘nature’, and ‘wilderness’ beyond the label of ‘ecosystem services’. By engaging in interdisciplinary efforts, these anthropologists are also presenting new ways for their colleagues, subjects, peers and communities to understand the causes of, and alternatives to environmental destruction. This volume demonstrates that environmental anthropology has moved beyond the construction of rural, small group theory. It has entered into a mode of solution-based methodologies and interdisciplinary theories for understanding human-environmental interactions. It is focused on post-rural existence, health and environmental risk assessment, on the realm of alternative actions and emphasizes the necessary steps towards preventing environmental crisis.
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Although anthropologists are rising to the call for increased attention to the environment, there... more Although anthropologists are rising to the call for increased attention to the environment, there is a fundamental conflict of interest for anthropologists concerned with the environment. This book argues that if social scientists and environmental anthropologists want to remain relevant in the Anthropocene, this era of environmental damage and repair, then we need to scourge the exceptionalism that we attribute to human beings and accept them as part of the natural system.
This volume provides detailed explanations for how anthropologists can prioritize the environment by better integrating it into their ethnographic research and continuing to help and represent the human communities that depend on the well being of natural world. It reintroduces the environment into environmental anthropology and demonstrates how the field’s theories and methodological tools can aid efforts to understand various cultural perspectives and mediate environmental problems. It addresses the types of interdisciplinary, environmentally focused projects that are bringing anthropology to the forefront of community conservation projects and policy initiatives.
It takes into account a range of environmental and social issues around the world and presents various examples of environmental degradation, ethics, and knowledge, as well as, instances of environmental conservation efforts and learning. It provides valuable methods of accessing such knowledge and insightful theoretical frameworks for assessing and synthesizing such information.
This book gives students and researchers in anthropology, conservation, environmental ethics and across the social sciences an invaluable inisght into how innovative and intensive new methodologies, questions, and broader subject pools can close the gap between anthropology as an anthropocentric social science and an informative environmental anthropology that can serve as a policy-tool and applied science.
Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgra... more Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability. Highly original, it covers the very broad spectrum of ideas covered under sustainability, from participation, resilience, growth, ecological modernism through to culture, sustainable communities and sustainable consumption. Each chapter covers one key idea, and has been written by an expert in that field. This book makes key issues approachable, with each chapter containing:
a definition of the key concept
a history of how and why the issue has emerged
a discussion of the advantages, drawbacks, main contributions and controversies associated with this issue
case studies to demonstrate how it works in reality
This is the ideal book for students and anyone interested in understanding the key issues within sustainability and how they interact.
Articles by Eleanor Ouimet
Biological Conservation
In this article we focus upon a division between generalized schools of philosophical and ethical... more In this article we focus upon a division between generalized schools of philosophical and ethical thought about culture and conservation. There is an ongoing debate playing out over conservation between those who believe conservation threatens community livelihoods and traditional practices, and those who believe conservation is essential to protect nonhuman species from the impact of human development and population growth. We argue for reconciliation between these schools of thought and a cooperative push toward the cultivation of an environmentally-focused perspective that embraces not only social and economic justice but also concern for non-human species. Our goal is to underline the ethics and tangible benefits that may result from combining the cultural data and knowledge of the social sciences with understanding of environmental science and conservation. We highlight instances in which social scientists overlook their own anthropocentric bias in relationship to ecological justice, or justice for all species, in favor of exclusive social justice among people. We focus on the polemical stances of this debate in order to emphasize the importance of a middle road of cooperation that acknowledges the rights of human and nonhuman species, alike. In conclusion, we present an alternative set of ethics and research activities for social scientists concerned with conservation and offer ideas on how to reconcile the conflicting interests of people and the environment.
Biological Conservation, Jan 29, 2015
In this article we focus upon a division between generalized schools of philosophical and ethical... more In this article we focus upon a division between generalized schools of philosophical and ethical thought about culture and conservation. There is an ongoing debate playing out over conservation between those who believe conservation threatens community livelihoods and traditional practices, and those who believe conservation is essential to protect nonhuman species from the impact of human development and population growth. We argue for reconciliation between these schools of thought and a cooperative push toward the cultivation of an environmentally-focused perspective that embraces not only social and economic justice but also concern for non-human species. Our goal is to underline the ethics and tangible benefits that may result from combining the cultural data and knowledge of the social sciences with understanding of environmental science and conservation. We highlight instances in which social scientists overlook their own anthropocentric bias in relationship to ecological justice, or justice for all species, in favor of exclusive social justice among people. We focus on the polemical stances of this debate in order to emphasize the importance of a middle road of cooperation that acknowledges the rights of human and nonhuman species, alike. In conclusion, we present an alternative set of ethics and research activities for social scientists concerned with conservation and offer ideas on how to reconcile the conflicting interests of people and the environment.
Book chapters by Eleanor Ouimet
Environmental Anthropology: Future Directions, May 2013
Papers by Eleanor Ouimet
Journal of environmental planning and management, Feb 13, 2024
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Dec 31, 2023
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2008
Learning and Teaching, Jun 1, 2021
This article outlines pedagogical practices and methodologies for increasing student engagement i... more This article outlines pedagogical practices and methodologies for increasing student engagement in the classroom and in the broader community on the topic of climate change. The emphases are placed on (1) preliminary assessments of student understanding and emotional responses to the topic of climate change, (2) assignments that enable student groups to assess and increase campus-wide awareness of various aspects of climate change, and (3) public engagement and service-learning opportunities that allow students to expand their impact beyond the local campus and into their broader community. These practices have proven effective, for large format lecture courses as well as smaller seminar-style courses, in encouraging student participation, overcoming apathy and motivating student effort and action far beyond what can be stimulated by traditional classroom assignments and assessments.
Choice Reviews Online, 2013
ABSTRACT This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topic... more ABSTRACT This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology. Environmental anthropologists are increasingly focusing on self-reflection - not just on themselves and their impacts on environmental research, but also on the reflexive qualities of their subjects, and the extent to which these individuals are questioning their own environmental behavior. Here, contributors confront the very notion of "natural resources" in granting non-human species their subjectivity and arguing for deeper understanding of "nature," and "wilderness" beyond the label of "ecosystem services." By engaging in interdisciplinary efforts, these anthropologists present new ways for their colleagues, subjects, peers and communities to understand the causes of, and alternatives to environmental destruction. This book demonstrates that environmental anthropology has moved beyond the construction of rural, small group theory, entering into a mode of solution-based methodologies and interdisciplinary theories for understanding human-environmental interactions. It is focused on post-rural existence, health and environmental risk assessment, on the realm of alternative actions, and emphasizes the necessary steps towards preventing environmental crisis.
Kopnina, H. (2011) 'What about that wrapper? Using consumption diaries in green education'.
Anthropology is traditionally broken into several subfields, physical/biological anthropology, so... more Anthropology is traditionally broken into several subfields, physical/biological anthropology, social/cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and sometimes also applied anthropology. Anthropology of the environment, or environmental anthropology, is a specialization within the field of anthropology that studies current and historic human-environment interactions. Although the terms environmental anthropology and ecological anthropology are often used interchangeably, environmental anthropology is considered by some to be the applied dimension of ecological anthropology, which encompasses the broad topics of primate ecology, paleoecology, cultural ecology, ethnoecology, historical ecology, political ecology, spiritual ecology, and human behavioral and evolutionary ecology. However, according to Townsend (2009: 104), “ecological anthropology will refer to one particular type of research in environmental anthropology—field studies that describe a single ecosystem i...
Biological Conservation, 2015
In this article, we focus upon a division between generalized schools of philosophical and ethica... more In this article, we focus upon a division between generalized schools of philosophical and ethical thought about culture and conservation. There is an ongoing debate playing out over conservation between those who believe conservation threatens community livelihoods and traditional practices, and those who believe conservation is essential to protect nonhuman species from the impact of human development and population growth. We argue for reconciliation between these schools of thought and a cooperative push towards the cultivation of an environmentally-focused perspective that embraces not only social and economic justice but also a concern for non-human species. Our goal is to underline the ethics and tangible benefits that may result from combining the cultural data and knowledge of the social sciences with an understanding of environmental science and conservation. We highlight instances in which social scientists overlook their own anthropocentric bias in relation to ecological justice, or justice for all species, in favor of exclusive social justice among people. We focus on the polemical stances of this debate in order to emphasize the importance of a middle road of cooperation that acknowledges the rights of human and nonhuman species, alike. In conclusion, we present an alternative set of ethics and research activities for social scientists concerned with conservation and offer ideas on how to reconcile the conflicting interests of people and the environment.
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Books by Eleanor Ouimet
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This volume provides detailed explanations for how anthropologists can prioritize the environment by better integrating it into their ethnographic research and continuing to help and represent the human communities that depend on the well being of natural world. It reintroduces the environment into environmental anthropology and demonstrates how the field’s theories and methodological tools can aid efforts to understand various cultural perspectives and mediate environmental problems. It addresses the types of interdisciplinary, environmentally focused projects that are bringing anthropology to the forefront of community conservation projects and policy initiatives.
It takes into account a range of environmental and social issues around the world and presents various examples of environmental degradation, ethics, and knowledge, as well as, instances of environmental conservation efforts and learning. It provides valuable methods of accessing such knowledge and insightful theoretical frameworks for assessing and synthesizing such information.
This book gives students and researchers in anthropology, conservation, environmental ethics and across the social sciences an invaluable inisght into how innovative and intensive new methodologies, questions, and broader subject pools can close the gap between anthropology as an anthropocentric social science and an informative environmental anthropology that can serve as a policy-tool and applied science.
a definition of the key concept
a history of how and why the issue has emerged
a discussion of the advantages, drawbacks, main contributions and controversies associated with this issue
case studies to demonstrate how it works in reality
This is the ideal book for students and anyone interested in understanding the key issues within sustainability and how they interact.
Articles by Eleanor Ouimet
Book chapters by Eleanor Ouimet
Papers by Eleanor Ouimet
"
This volume provides detailed explanations for how anthropologists can prioritize the environment by better integrating it into their ethnographic research and continuing to help and represent the human communities that depend on the well being of natural world. It reintroduces the environment into environmental anthropology and demonstrates how the field’s theories and methodological tools can aid efforts to understand various cultural perspectives and mediate environmental problems. It addresses the types of interdisciplinary, environmentally focused projects that are bringing anthropology to the forefront of community conservation projects and policy initiatives.
It takes into account a range of environmental and social issues around the world and presents various examples of environmental degradation, ethics, and knowledge, as well as, instances of environmental conservation efforts and learning. It provides valuable methods of accessing such knowledge and insightful theoretical frameworks for assessing and synthesizing such information.
This book gives students and researchers in anthropology, conservation, environmental ethics and across the social sciences an invaluable inisght into how innovative and intensive new methodologies, questions, and broader subject pools can close the gap between anthropology as an anthropocentric social science and an informative environmental anthropology that can serve as a policy-tool and applied science.
a definition of the key concept
a history of how and why the issue has emerged
a discussion of the advantages, drawbacks, main contributions and controversies associated with this issue
case studies to demonstrate how it works in reality
This is the ideal book for students and anyone interested in understanding the key issues within sustainability and how they interact.