Reimagining Livelihoods: Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment

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A provocative reassessment of the concepts underlying the struggle for sustainable development Much of the debate over sustainable development revolves around how to balance the competing demands of economic development, social well-being, and environmental protection. "Jobs vs. environment" is only one of the many forms that such struggles take

Ethan Miller is lecturer in environmental studies, politics, and anthropology at Bates College.

"Interesting, imaginative, and extraordinarily well written, Reimagining Livelihoods is an exemplary case of how to think through the ideas and forces that shape our existence behind our backs. Ethan Miller's work is empirical in the best sense, with the information gleaned from interviews often as enlightening as it is unexpected."-Mick Smith, author of Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Politics, and Saving the Natural World "Ethan Miller provides vital tools to imagine and enact ways of life no longer tethered to the constraining categories of economy, society, and environment. Written with passion and insight and deeply grounded in the material realities of Maine life, Reimagining Livelihoods is essential reading for activists, planners, and academics struggling to compose common worlds within late capitalist ecologies."-Bruce Braun, University of Minnesota "It tacks between deep theory and rich empirical material to carefully, insidiously open up alternate ways-of-seeing in the readers' minds."-Environmental Values "I applaud Miller's ambition in this book and would suggest that the ideas within have the potential to ignite a well-taught classroom and leap far beyond."-American Anthropologist