This book uses SEA ethnography to provide new insights into human-environmental relationships & ecologies, with theoretical innovations& will interest pol-ecology, environmental anthropology, sustainability & pol.sci, development std., human geography & ecology, SEA & Asian std.

Chapter 1. Introduction. Plural Ecologies: Beyond ontology and political ecology in Southeast Asia; Chapter 2. Ontologies of possibility: Future-oriented indeterminacy in Southeast Asian animism; Chapter 3. Conflicting ways of dealing with invisible human-like beings: Including - Neglecting - Ignoring; Chapter 4. Home of spirits and loggers: Plural perspectives on the forest in Indonesian Borneo; Chapter 5. Animism and indigenous movements in Indonesia; Chapter 6. Negotiating plural ecologies of adat land in Indonesia; Chapter 7. Ecological disturbances: Negotiating indigeneity and access to land in Indonesia; Chapter 8. Entrepreneurial ecologies in a Javanese fishery; Chapter 9. The reinvention of moral ecologies in Indonesia; Chapter 10. "Talking" trees: Urban ecologies in late socialist Hanoi; Chapter 11. A positive other? Comprehending the hope in animism's overcoming the capitalist socio-ecological crisis