Creatures of Fashion (eBook)

Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia

John Soluri (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
264 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7573-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animalsterrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and deadwas central to the regions transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Drawing on evidence from archives and digital repositories, John Soluri traces the circulation of furs and fibers to explore how the power of fashion stretched far beyond Europes houses of haute couture to entangle the fates of Indigenous hunters, migrant workers, and textile manufacturers with those of fur seals, guanacos, and sheep at the end of the world.From the nineteenth-century rise of commercial hunting to twentieth-century sheep ranching to contemporary conservation-based tourism, Soluris narrative explains how struggles for control over the production of commodities and the reproduction of animals drove the social and environmental changes that tied Patagonia to global markets, empires, and wildlife conservation movements. By exposing seams in national territories and global markets knit together by force, this book provides perspectives and analyses vital for understanding contemporary conflicts over mass consumption, the conservation of biodiversity, and struggles for environmental justice in Patagonia and beyond.

Autor

John Soluri is associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.4.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
• Reihe/Serie: Flows, Migrations, and Exchanges
• Zusatzinfo: 20 halftones, 2 maps, notes, index, 88,332 words
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: animal reproduction and capitalism • animals in Latin American history • Aónikenk and fur traders in Patagonia • consumption of fur seals skins in Europe and the United States • Environmental history of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego • fashion, capitalism, and environmental change • Indigenous displacements in late-nineteenth-century Argentina and Chile • international fur seal hunting and conservation • introduction of sheep in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego • Selk’nam struggle against sheep ranchers in Tierra del Fuego • socio-environmental conflicts in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego • violence of settler colonialism in Chile and Argentina • Yámana interactions with fur seal hunters
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7573-0 / 1469675730
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7573-2 / 9781469675732