{"product_id":"harvesting-the-clouds","title":"Harvesting the Clouds","description":"\u003cp\u003eVision limited, sounds muffled. Tiny water droplets reflect light back to its source and make it difficult to locate the origin of sounds: this is fog. In Chakad Ojanis ethnography, this atmospheric phenomenon plays a pivotal role.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on long-term ethnographic research on engagements with fog in Lima and coastal Peru, \u003ci\u003eHarvesting the Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e examines how local NGO workers and fog oasis conservationists sought to utilize coastal fog as a water source. NGO workers installed fog catchers in informal or recently formalized neighborhoods where state infrastructure was absent, while conservationists harnessed ground-touching clouds in order to prevent informal urbanization. As they set out to capture ground-touching clouds to pursue their distinct goals, these collectives became entrapped by activities, demands, and expectations that they had not foreseen. The book frames these relationships as \u003ci\u003eecologies of capture\u003c\/i\u003e: emergent webs of relationships held together by conflicting aims and expectations, the possibilities and limitations of fog capture, and the material qualities of fog itself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarvesting the Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e argues that capture is always only partially successful, but by virtue of this partiality, it becomes productive of social relationsan understanding that the author extends to anthropological inquiry itself as an exercise in the productive impossibility of ethnographic entrapment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57573193777525,"sku":"9780816558223","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780816558223.jpg?v=1789395843","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/harvesting-the-clouds","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}