{"id":1704,"date":"2022-09-27T07:25:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T07:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2022-11-22T20:45:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T20:45:01","slug":"online-book-talk-hirsch-acts-of-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/booktalk\/online-book-talk-hirsch-acts-of-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Online book talk: Hirsch, Acts of Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greenhouse Book Talk: Hirsch\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/773955163?h=3d7d84bf49&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"819\" height=\"532\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eric Hirsch, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College (USA) discussed his book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sup.org\/books\/title\/?id=33903\">Acts of Growth: Development and the Politics of Abundance in Peru<\/a><\/em> (Stanford University Press, 2022) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 14 November 2022, at 16:00 in Norway (10:00 Eastern).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru&#8217;s southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this book, Eric Hirsch considers what growth means\u2014and importantly how it feels. Hirsch proposes an analysis of boom-time capitalism that starts not from considerations of poverty, but from the premise that Peru is wealthy. He situates his work in a network of villages near new mining sites, agricultural export markets, and tourist attractions, where Peruvian prosperity appears tantalizingly close, yet just out of reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book centers on small-scale development investments working to transform villagers into Indigenous entrepreneurs ready to capitalize on Peru&#8217;s new national brand and access the constantly deferred promise of national growth. That meant identifying as Indigenous, where few actively did so; identifying as an entrepreneur, in a place where single-minded devotion to a business went against the tendency to diversify income sources; and identifying every dimension of one&#8217;s daily life as a resource, despite the unwelcome intimacy this required. Theorizing growth as an affective project that requires constant physical and emotional labor,&nbsp;<em>Acts of Growth<\/em>&nbsp;follows a diverse group of Andean residents through the exhausting work of making an economy grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Hirsch, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Franklin &amp; Marshall College (USA) discussed his book Acts of Growth: Development and the Politics of Abundance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booktalk"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Hirsch_cover.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}