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As more and more species fall under the threat of extinction, humans are not only taking action to protect critical habitats but are also engaging more directly with species to help mitigate their decline. Through innovative infrastructure design and by changing how we live, humans are becoming more attuned to nonhuman animals and are making efforts to live alongside them.Examining sites of loss, temporal orientations, and infrastructural mitigations, Nestwork blends rhetorical and posthuman sensibilities in service of ecological care. In this innovative ethnographic study, rhetorician Jennifer Clary-Lemon examines human-nonhuman animal interactions, identifying forms of communication between species and within their material world. Looking in particular at nonhuman species that depend on human development for their habitat, Clary-Lemon examines the cases of the barn swallow, chimney swift, and bobolink. She studies their habitats along with the unique mitigation efforts taken by humans to maintain those habitats, including building "barn swallow gazebos" and artificial chimneys and altering farming practices to allow for nesting and breeding. What she reveals are fascinating forms of rhetoric not expressed through language but circulating between species and materials objects.Nestwork explores what are in essence nonlinguistic and decidedly nonhuman arguments within these local environments. Drawing on new materialist and Indigenous ontologies, the book helps attune our senses to the tragedy of species decline and to a new understanding of home and homemaking.
Birds --- Human-animal relationships. --- Bird declines. --- Rhetoric. --- Barn swallow. --- Chimney swift. --- Bobolink. --- Nests. --- Anthropocene. --- Endangered Species. --- Environmental Rhetoric. --- Ontario:Canada. --- Posthumanism. --- artificial chimneys. --- barn swallow gazebos. --- barn swallow. --- bobolink. --- chimney swift. --- farming practices. --- habitat mitgation. --- human-nonhuman interactions.
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Depuis plusieurs années, il est constaté que l’agrobiodiversité des sols est impactée par les pratiques culturales des différents types d’agriculture (le labour et les intrants synthétiques sont le plus souvent pointés du doigt). Les vers de terre forment l'un des groupes les plus importants de la macrofaune du sol et jouent un rôle majeur dans les écosystèmes agricoles. (Bouthier et al., 2014) Dans cet ouvrage, le potentiel de différentes pratiques agricoles, regroupé dans 4 modalités distinctes (l'agriculture biologique, l'agriculture de conservation, mais aussi leur combinaison face à l’agriculture conventionnelle classique) est évalué pour mobiliser l’abondance des vers de terre, leur diversité (groupes écologiques et stades) et leur contribution aux différents services écosystémiques du sol. Les 24 parcelles étudiées se situent en Wallonie, sur un sol limoneux à drainage normal ou ralenti. Les fonctions écologiques qui sont abordés sont la stabilité des agrégats (slake test), l’activité de nourrissage biologique (bait lamina test) et une évaluation visuelle du sol (structure, texture, couleur, mottes, racines, etc). Cette étude est dirigée par une approche systémique, à l’image de ce que prône l’agroécologie. Le type de pratiques et le contexte pédologique n’affectent pas les résultats. Des tendances de corrélation entre vers de terre et fonctions écologiques sont montrées. D’autres recherches plus précises et plus longues doivent avoir lieu.
agroécologie --- vers de terre --- pratiques culturales --- slake test --- bait lamina --- VSA method --- sol limoneux --- drainage --- Wallonie --- fonctions écologiques --- services écosystémiques --- agroecology --- earthworms --- farming practices --- loaym soil --- ecological functions --- ecosystem services --- Wallonia --- Sciences du vivant > Agriculture & agronomie
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Livestock --- Animal husbandry --- Animal welfare --- Animal rights --- Organic agriculture --- Domestication --- Elevage --- Bétail --- Animaux --- Agriculture biologique --- Protection --- Droits --- Farming practices. --- Animal farming. --- Animal domestication. --- Animal protection. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Élevage. --- Bétail. --- Domestication. --- Agriculture biologique. --- Protection. --- Droits. --- Animal Husbandry --- Animal Welfare --- Animal Rights --- Organic Agriculture --- Livestock. --- Animal Husbandry. --- Animal Welfare. --- Animal Rights. --- Organic Agriculture.
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« Les tessons du canari ne sont plus immobiles », disent les Sereer. Dans les campagnes du Sine, au centre-ouest du Sénégal, les tessons de poteries qui jonchent les aires villageoises symbolisent la socialisation et la sacralisation anciennes des lieux ; ils témoignent de l’attachement des paysans sereer à leur terroir. Or, ce confinement dans les vieux pays a cessé, les jeunes gens partent travailler dans les Terres neuves situées à l’est et s’y fixent. Cette mobilité géographique s’accompagne de changements de tous ordres qui mettent à mal les représentations anciennes quelque peu figées du système agraire et de la société rurale des Sereer du Sine. Dans les Terres neuves, une dynamique socio-économique très forte se fonde sur l’extension des espaces productifs et offre des possibilités d’enrichissement aux paysans. Toutefois, les potentiels de production ne semblent guère ménagés pour l’avenir. Les terres de ces exploitants qui n’ont pas rompu avec ceux du Sine constituent un élargissement de l’espace agro-pastoral sereer.
Serer (African people). --- Farmers --- Agriculture --- Ethnology --- Senegal --- Rural conditions. --- Economics --- Planning & Development --- Sénégal --- changement social --- terroir --- système agraire --- foncier rural --- société rurale --- dynamique de population --- paysannerie --- système de production --- colonisation agricole --- savoir --- crise agricole --- stratégie paysanne --- migration rurale --- arachide --- zone soudano-sahélienne --- Sereer in Sine and Terres neuves --- Landholding tension --- Agricultural and animal farming practices --- Food and peanuts productions --- Social mobilities
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Illuminating the dark side of economic globalization, this book gives a rare insider's view of the migrant farmworkers' binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California. Over the course of ten years, Ann Aurelia López conducted a series of intimate interviews with farmworkers and their families along the migrant circuit. She deftly weaves their voices together with up-to-date research to portray a world hidden from most Americans-a world of inescapable poverty that has worsened considerably since NAFTA was implemented in 1994. In fact, today it has become nearly impossible for rural communities in Mexico to continue to farm the land sustainably, leaving few survival options except the perilous border crossing to the United States. The Farmworkers' Journey brings together for the first time the many facets of this issue into a comprehensive and accessible narrative: how corporate agribusiness operates, how binational institutions and laws promote the subjugation of Mexican farmworkers, how migration affects family life, how genetically modified corn strains pouring into Mexico from the United States are affecting farmers, how migrants face exploitation from employers, and more. A must-read for all Americans, The Farmworkers' Journey traces the human consequences of our policy decisions.
Migrant agricultural laborers - California. --- Migrant agricultural laborers - Mexico. --- Migrant agricultural laborers. --- Migrant agricultural laborers --- Business & Economics --- Agricultural Economics --- Agricultural migrants --- Migrant agricultural workers --- Migrant farm workers --- Migrants --- Agricultural laborers --- Migrant labor --- 21st century american immigration. --- 21st century american politics. --- agricultural economy. --- american history. --- american immigration. --- border crossing. --- california. --- corporate agribusiness. --- democracy. --- economic globalization. --- economics. --- family. --- farm work. --- farmers and farming. --- farms and farmers. --- historical farming practices. --- human condition. --- immigration and emigration. --- mexican american border. --- mexico. --- migrant workers. --- migration. --- nafta. --- political debate. --- politics. --- poverty. --- rural. --- transnational corporations. --- united states of america.
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Susan Wadley first visited Karimpur—the village "behind mud walls" made famous by William and Charlotte Wiser—as a graduate student in 1967. She returned often, adding her observations and experiences to the Wisers' field notes from the 1920s and 1930s. In this long-awaited book, Wadley gives us a work of unprecedented scope: a portrait of an Indian village as it has changed over a sixty-year period.She hears of changes in agriculture, labor relations, education, and the family. But Karimpur's residents do not speak with one voice in describing the ways their lives have changed—viewpoints vary considerably depending on the speaker's gender, economic status, and caste. Using cultural documents such as songs and stories, as well as data on household budgets and farming practices, Wadley examines what it means to be poor or rich, female or male. She demonstrates that the forms of subordination prescribed for women are paralleled by those prescribed for lower castes.Villagers also speak of political struggles in India, and of the importance of religion when confronting change. Their stories, songs, and life histories reveal the rich fabric of Karimpur and show how much can be learned from listening to its people.
Ethnology --- Villages --- Families --- Social change --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Hamlets (Villages) --- Village government --- Cities and towns --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Maipuri (India : District) --- Karimpur (India) --- Social conditions. --- Rural conditions. --- Ethnology - India - Karimpur --- Villages - India - Karimpur --- Families - India - Karimpur --- Social change - India - Karimpur --- Karimpur (India) - Social conditions --- agriculture. --- caste. --- cultural documents. --- economic status. --- education. --- family. --- female or male. --- gender. --- household budgets and farming practices. --- importance of religion. --- karimpurs residents. --- karimpurthe. --- labor relations. --- political struggles in india. --- poor or rich. --- portrait of indian village. --- sixty year period. --- songs and stories. --- Ethnology. --- Families. --- Social change. --- Villages.
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