on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
- Author(s)
- Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
- Publication
- Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2015
- Scope
- 331 Pages, illustrated, 23.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780691162751
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. By investigating one of the world’s most sought-after fungi, the book presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes.Tsing shows the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides. It also offers an insight into fungal ecologies and forest histories; the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction.
- Keywords
- alternative economy , neo liberalism
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 5: Kritiek op het Neoliberalisme
- Remarks
- Incl. Notes, Index, Bibliographical references
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