Restless Ecologies Climate Change and Socioecological Futures in the Peruvian Highlands

"This outstanding book marks the arrival of a new generation of ethnographic scholarship on climate change. Situating climate impacts within a broader context of Andean restlessness or, in Quechua, k'ita, Allison Caine's incisive storytelling provides essential analysis for what climate change has come to mean as a fact of life for rural communities in today's world. The author also writes with a kindness for her human and nonhuman interlocutors that is rare in anthropology today."-Eric Hirsch, author of Acts of Growth: Development and the Politics of Abundance in Peru

"Restless Ecologies contributes to multiple fields-e.g., multispecies ethnography, anthropology of climate change, Peruvian studies, and environmental studies-though it perhaps sits most squarely within the tradition of Andeanist ethnography. The author's multisensorial exploration of the lived experiences of Quechua women herders and their relations with nonhuman kin/companions, her focus on the minutia of everyday life, and her insistence in writing climate change from the ground up, are particularly compelling and significant offerings."-MarÍa Elena GarcÍa, author of Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race