Forecasts: A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster (Ethnographic) - Softcover

Schuster, Caroline, E.

 
9781487542238: Forecasts: A Story of Weather and Finance at the Edge of Disaster (Ethnographic)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1487542232 ISBN 13: 9781487542238
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Based in the agrarian world of commercial sesame farming in northern Paraguay, Forecasts tells a story about what happens when global insurance companies promise financial safety nets to local farmers struggling with the effects of climate change. This striking graphic novel brings together original ethnographic research and Paraguayan gothic art to confront the limitations of finance to respond to a deteriorating environment.


Taking a human-centered approach to complex weather and financial models, Forecasts offers new ways of looking at overlapping speculative futures in a more-than-human landscape. Based on more than a year of fieldwork in Paraguay, the book follows one man’s possible journeys through a season of planting and harvesting, buffeted by losses and sustained by the hope that he can cultivate conditions that will help his family thrive. Forecasts makes a sweeping account of environmental and financial risk accessible through the intimate story of one family’s triumphs, heartbreaks, and hopes for the future.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Caroline E. Schuster is an associate professor in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University.
Enrique Bernardou is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Paraguay.
David Bueno is a graphic designer based in Paraguay.

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1487542232
ISBN 13 
9781487542238
Einband
Taschenbuch
Zeichner
Bernardou Enrique, Bueno David
Anzahl der Seiten
176
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Niederlande

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