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Reconsidering the Bicycle

An Anthropological Perspective on a New (old) Thing

By: Luis Antonio Vivanco

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Reconsidering the Bicycle

An Anthropological Perspective on a New (old) Thing

By: Luis Antonio Vivanco

In cities throughout the world, bicycles have gained a high profile in recent years, with politicians and activists promoting initiatives like bike lanes, bikeways, bike share programs, and other social programs to get more people on bicycles. Bicycles in the city are, some would say, the wave of the future for car-choked, financially-strapped, obese, and sustainability-sensitive urban areas. This book explores how and why people are reconsidering the bicycle, no longer thinking of it simply as a toy or exercise machine, but as a potential solution to a number of contemporary problems. It focuses in particular on what reconsidering the bicycle might mean for everyday practices and politics of urban mobility, a concept that refers to the intertwined physical, technological, social, and experiential dimensions of human movement. This book is for Introductory Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Sociology, Environmental Anthropology, and all undergraduate courses on the environment and on sustainability throughout the social sciences.

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Routledge

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0415503884

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9780415503884

Green Encounters

Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

By: Luis Antonio Vivanco

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Green Encounters

Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

By: Luis Antonio Vivanco

Since the 1970s and 1980s, Monte Verde, Costa Rica has emerged as one of the most renowned sites of nature conservation and ecotourism in Costa Rica, and some would argue, Latin America. It has received substantial attention in literature and media on tropical conservation, sustainable development, and tourism. Yet most of that analysis has uncritically evaluated the Monte Verde phenomenon, using celebratory language and barely scratching the surface of the many-faceted socio-cultural transformations provoked by and accompanying environmentalism. Because of its stature, Monte Verde represents an ideal case study to examine the socio-cultural and political complexities and dilemmas of practicing environmentalism in rural Costa Rica. Based on many years of close observation, this book offers rich and original material on the ongoing struggles between environmental activists and of collective and oppositional politics to Monte Verde's new "culture of nature.

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Berghahn Books

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1845455045

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9781845455040

Green Encounters

Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

By: Luis A. Vivanco

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Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in Rural Costa Rica

By: Luis A. Vivanco

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Reconsidering the Bicycle

Reconsidering the Bicycle

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