The Mushroom at the End of the World
The Mushroom at the End of the World
on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Auteur(s)
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Uitgever
Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2015
Omvang
331 p., geïllustreerd, 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.


Trefwoorden
alternative economy , neo liberalism
Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 11 - 5: Kritiek op het Neoliberalisme
Opmerkingen
Incl. Notes, Index, Bibliographical references