Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Books
Johns Hopkins University Press Elements of Physical Hydrology
Book SynopsisThoughtfully illustrated, carefully written, and covering a broad spectrum of topics, this classic text clarifies a subject that is often misunderstood and oversimplified.Trade ReviewThis well-illustrated (in three colors), reasonably priced volume is a worthwhile acquisition. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface1. The Science of Hydrology2. Precipitation and Evapotranspiration3. The Basis for Analysis in Physical Hydrology: Principles of Fluid Dynamics4. Open Channel Hydraulics5. Catchment Hydrology: Streams and Floods6. Groundwater Hydraulic7. Groundwater Hydrology8. Water in the Unsaturated Zone9. Ecohydrology: Interactions between Hydrological Processes and the Biota10. Catchment Hydrology: The Hillslope-Stream Continuum11. Water, Climate, Energy, and FoodAppendixes1. Units, Dimensions, and Conversions2. Properties of Water3. Basic Statistics in HydrologyAnswers to Example ProblemsGlossaryReferencesIndex
£57.60
Johns Hopkins University Press The Rise of Birds
Book SynopsisHis compelling, occasionally controversial, revelations-accompanied by spectacular illustrations-are a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in the evolution of the feathered dinosaurs, from vertebrate paleontologists and ornithologists to naturalists and birders.Trade ReviewChatterjee takes us to where long-hidden bird fossils dwell. His compelling, occasionally controversial, revelations-accompanied by spectacular illustrations-are a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in the evolution of 'the feathered dinosaurs,' from vertebrate paleontologists and ornithologists to naturalists and birders... A must have for anyone with a serious interest in fossil birds. Birdbooker Report A beautifully written and illustrated volume on the origin and evolution of birds. -- Michael Hutchins The Rostrum ... An easy read and can and should be read and understood by anyone interested in the subject. British Trust for OrnithologyTable of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First Edition1. Mesozoic Pompeii2. The Evolution of an Airframe3. The Origin of Birds4. Archaeopteryx5. Protoavis6. Basal Avialans7. Pygostylia8. Enantiornithes9. Ornithuromorphs10. The End- Cretaceous Mass Extinction11. The Avian Revolution Begins12. The Origin of Flight13. Eggs, Embryos, and Heterochrony14. Feathers and Footprints15. The Feeding Mechanism and Cranial Kinesis16. Birds and HumansBibliographyIndex
£46.35
Johns Hopkins University Press Roads and Ecological Infrastructure Concepts and
Book SynopsisConceptual and practical, this book will influence the next decade or more of road design in ecologically sensitive areas and should prevent countless unnecessary wildlife fatalities.Trade ReviewRoad kills seriously affect some animal populations, and this book should be required reading for high school and college students, faculty, and general readers. CHOICE Reviews A primary goal of the editors is to broaden the reader's view of road impacts on small animals by providing the ecological context within which the public infrastructure (roads, bridges, etc.) functions... The book is a call to action for researchers, engineers, landscape planners, and others involved with road ecology to collaborate... to reach common goals. Herpetological Review University researchers, government agencies involved in transportation issues, land managers, conservation biologists, and anyone concerned with the losses to herpetofauna and small mammals because of roads will find this volume to be an important and insightful resource. Quarterly Review of BiologyTable of ContentsList of ContributorsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. A History of Small Animal Road EcologyChapter 2. Natural History and Physiological Characteristics of Small Animals in Relation to RoadsChapter 3. Direct Effects of Roads on Small Animal PopulationsChapter 4. Road Effects on Habitat Quality for Small AnimalsChapter 5. Engaging the Public in the Transportation Planning ProcessChapter 6. The Current Planning and Design Process Chapter 7. Sources of FundingPractical Example 1Chapter 8. Planning and Designing Mitigation of Road Effects on Small AnimalsChapter 9. Mitigating Road Effects on Small AnimalsChapter 10. Modifying Structures on Existing Roads to Enhance Wildlife PassageChapter 11. Construction and MaintenanceChapter 12. Monitoring Road Effects and Mitigation Measures and Applying Adaptive ManagementPractical Example 2Chapter 13. The Road AheadIndex
£54.40
Johns Hopkins University Press Mammalian Paleoecology
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is a neatly crafted package that gives the reader all the required background knowledge, while its case studies make for fascinating reading.—Inquisitive BiologistThis book is highly recommended to people who are interested in paleontology of mammals and how this science can help us to understand us how organisms respond and adapt to environmental changes.—Suiform SoundingsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements1. IntroductionPart I: General Principles of Paleoecology2. Old Bones, footprints and trace evidence of life 3. Taphonomy -putting the dead to work4. Determining age and context Part II: Characterizing the ecology of fossil organisms5. On being the right size6. Show me your teeth and I will tell you what you are7. Stable isotopes and the reconstruction of mammalian movement, diet and trophic relationships8. Non-traditional 'fossils'9. Reconstructing past climate Part III: Using paleoecology to understand the present10. The past as prologue: the importance of a deeper temporal perspective in climate change research11. Biodiversity on EarthIndex
£68.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Restoring the Balance
Book SynopsisWolves on a wilderness island illuminate lessons on the environment, extinction, and life. For more than a quarter century, celebrated biologist John Vucetich has studied the wolves, and the moose that sustain them, of the boreal forest of Isle Royale National Park, an island in the northwest corner of Lake Superior. During this time, he has witnessed both the near extinction of the local wolf population, driven largely by climate change, and the intensely debated relocation of other wolves to the island in an effort to stabilize and maintain Isle Royale's ecosystem health. In Restoring the Balance, Vucetich combines environmental philosophy with field notes chronicling his day-to-day experience as a scientist. Examining the fate of wolves in the wild, he shares lessons from these wolves and explains their impact on humanity's fundamental responsibilities to the natural world. Vucetich's engaging narrative and unique, clear-eyed perspective provide an accessible course in wolf biologTrade ReviewThis book is juicy with field notes—the stories of charismatic individual wolves like the Old Gray Guy, and complex science made understandable and seductively enticing to the reader with even the tiniest interest in wolf survival and natural history.—Nancy Jo Tubbs, International WolfThe book is many things in one: a fascinating memoir, a collection of field notes, a chronology of the 63-year study of the wolves and moose of Isle Royale.... It can even be used as a textbook on environmental history and biology and ecology of wolves and moose.—Community EcologyTable of ContentsForward PrefaceAcknowledgements1. Why Wolves?2. Thoughts of a Moose3. Beginnings4. Balance of Nature5. Exogenous Forces6. The Old Gray Guy7. The Unraveling8. Sense of Place9. All Natural10. Restoring the BalanceCoda
£38.70
Johns Hopkins University Press Bird Migration
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of the most charismatic phenomena of birds is long-distance migration, and John Rappole's latest book on this topic is one of its kind. With his insightful book Rappole, an emeritus researcher at the Smithsonian Institute, turns the centuries-year-long paradigms of bird migration theory upside down, twists them and builds a compelling case to convince the reader that his dispersal theory bears the truth about the origin of bird migration.—Community EcologyTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. The Bird Migration ParadigmChapter 2. The Migrant Annual Cycle According to the Dispersal TheoryChapter 3. Fall MigrationChapter 4. Wintering PeriodChapter 5. Spring MigrationChapter 6. Breeding PeriodChapter 7. Postbreeding Period Chapter 8. Population BiologyChapter 9. Origin and EvolutionChapter 10. BiogeographyChapter 11. ConservationCodaAppendix 1. Common and Scientific Names of Bird Species Mentioned in the TextAppendix 2. A Critical Examination of the Assumptions in "Temperate Origins of Long-Distance Seasonal Migration in New World Songbirds" by Benjamin M. Winger, F. Keith Barker, and Richard H. ReeAppendix 3. Notation Corrections for Alan Pine's Multiple Carrying Capacity Equations from "Age-Structured Periodic Breeders" by Alan S. Pine in The Avian Migrant: The Biology of Bird Migration by John H. Rappole (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013)Annotated BibliographyIndex
£26.10
Johns Hopkins University Press The Conversation on Water
Book SynopsisFrom the contributors to The Conversation, a compelling essay collection on the world's water crises and the necessary steps to build a more sustainable and equitable water future for all. Water-related crises are affecting more and more communities, both in the United States and internationally. If we continue to delay upgrading our infrastructure and addressing rising environmental concerns, we risk further destabilizing already strained systemsor, worse, causing a catastrophic collapse. In The Conversation on Water, water scholar and professor Andrea K. Gerlak collects essays from The Conversation U.S. on critical issues related to water from leading experts in everything from public policy to environmental engineering. Gerlak pays special attention to the threats facing our water systems todaycovering insufficient infrastructure, climate change, and pollutionand integrates them with essays on technologies for harvesting water and Indigenous knowledge in governing the oceans. ShTable of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordPrefacePart I. Health and the Need for Clean Water1. Nearly 60 Million Americans Don't Drink Their Tap Water, Research Suggests—Here's Why That's a Public Health Problem2. The Importance of Replacing Lead Water Pipes from Coast to Coast3. Wildfires Are Contaminating Drinking Water Systems, and It's More Widespread Than People Realize4. Climate Change Threatens Drinking Water Quality across the Great Lakes5. PFAS "Forever Chemicals" Are Widespread and Threaten Human Health—Here's a Strategy for Protecting the PublicPart II. Digging Deeper to Get More Water6. Ancient Groundwater: Why the Water You're Drinking May Be Thousands of Years Old7. As Climate Change Parches the Southwest, Here's a Better Way to Share Water from the Shrinking Colorado River8. Farmers Are Depleting the Ogallala Aquifer Because the Government Pays Them to Do It9. Millions of Americans Struggle to Pay Their Water Bills—Here's How a National Water Aid Program Could Work10. Five Unusual Technologies for Harvesting Water in Dry Areas11. Why Wall Street Investors' Trading of California Water Futures Is Nothing to Fear—and Unlikely to Work AnywayPart III. Water in a Warming World12. Two-Thirds of Earth's Land Is on Pace to Lose Water as the Climate Warms—That's a Problem for People, Crops, and Forests13. Climate Change Is Making Ocean Waves More Powerful, Threatening to Erode Many Coastlines14. As Coastal Flooding Worsens, Some Cities Are Retreating from the Water15. Your Favorite Fishing Stream May Be at High Risk from Climate Change—Here's How to Tell16. Trees Are Dying of Thirst in the Western Drought—Here's What's Going On inside Their Veins17. California's Water Supplies Are in Trouble as Climate Change Worsens Natural Dry Spells, Especially in the Sierra Nevada18. For Flood-Prone Cities, Seawalls Raise as Many Questions as They Answer19. A 20-Foot Seawall Won't Save Miami—How Living Structures Can Help Protect the Coast and Keep the Paradise Vibe20. Sea Level Rise Is Killing Trees along the Atlantic Coast, Creating "Ghost Forests" That Are Visible from Space21. Climate Change Is Driving Rapid Shifts between High and Low Water Levels on the Great Lakes22. As Flood Risks Increase across the US, It's Time to Recognize the Limits of LeveesPart IV. The Lifeblood of Human Society23. For Native Americans, a River Is More Than a "Person"; It Is Also a Sacred Place24. Louisiana's Coastal Cultures Are Threatened by the Very Plans Meant to Save Their Wetlands and Barrier Islands25. Women Still Carry Most of the World's Water26. Coronavirus Spotlights the Link between Clean Water and Health27. Living near Water Can Be Beneficial to Your Mental Health—Here's How to Have More Blue Spaces in CitiesPart V. Preserving Our Oceans28. How Marine Protected Areas Help Safeguard the Ocean29. Where Does Plastic Pollution Go When It Enters the Ocean?30. Scientists Have Been Drilling into the Ocean Floor for 50 Years—Here's What They've Found So Far31. Blue Acceleration: Our Dash for Ocean Resources Mirrors What We've Already Done on Land32. Why Indigenous Knowledge Should Be an Essential Part of How We Govern the World's OceansContributorsIndex
£13.30
Temple University Press,U.S. Loving Orphaned Space
Book SynopsisHow we relate to orphaned space matters. Voids, marginalia, empty spacesfrom abandoned gas stations to polluted waterwaysare created and maintained by politics, and often go unquestioned. In Loving Orphaned Space, Mrill Ingram provides a call to action to claim and to cherish these neglected spaces and make them a source of inspiration through art and/or remuneration.Ingram advocates not only for urban greening and green planning, but also for radical caring. These efforts create awareness and understanding of ecological connectivity and environmental justice issuesfrom the expropriation of land from tribal nations, to how race and class issues contribute to creating orphaned space. Case studies feature artists, scientists, and community collaborations in Chicago, New York, and Fargo, ND, where grounded and practical work of a fundamentally feminist nature challenges us to build networks of connection and care.The work of environmental artists who venture into and transform these discoTrade Review“In a time when people need places to gather and be outside in nature, Loving Orphaned Space is an essential guide for how to activate forgotten spaces in our landscape. It strikes the perfect balance of being inspiring and practical. With lively examples and impressive research, Ingram took me by the hand and walked me through the nuances of working with orphaned spaces. If only I had this book when I started out as an eco-artist!”—Stacy Levy, artist“In this remarkable book, Mrill Ingram challenges us to think of vacant land not as abandoned but as orphaned. She takes us on tours where we meet communities and artists who have adopted orphaned land and are using community art to care for these places. Ingram’s stories have changed the way I see and think about the land around me. I now see orphaned land wherever I go, and because of this book, I know how—and why—to love and care for these places.”—Samuel Dennis Jr., Professor of Planning and Landscape Architecture and Director of the Environmental Design Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison"As a result of the book’s cross-categorical structure, it has a broad range of appeal, connecting ecological restoration to activism, social justice, art and environmentalism, and public engagement. It also presents a model for collaboration: bringing together artists and scientists to work with community groups. I can envision an urban planning studio project focusing on caring for orphaned space as a rich and meaningful life experience for students."—Journal of Urban Affairs"Loving Orphaned Space offers important insights into nature-society relations regarding dwelling, home and belonging, and a conceptual framework about processes of disconnection that also materialize in housing.... [T]he book is recommended to urban scholars, artists, activists, or anyone with an interest in ecological restoration, maintenance and repair studies, feminist ethics, or creative and collaborative knowledge production."—Housing Studies
£17.99
Bristol University Press Urban Futures
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expectations about our urban futures. This book explores the history and evolution of city visions, placing them in the wider context of art, culture, science, foresight and urban theory.Table of ContentsUrban futures: planning for city foresight and city visions Cities and integrated urban challenges Reimagining the city: views of the future from the past and present Planning and governing the future city Future narratives for the city: smart and sustainable? Theoretical approaches to urban futures Using city foresight methods to develop city visions Shaping the future: city vision case studies The innovative and experimental city Visioning and planning the city in an urban age: a reality check Conclusions: facing the urban future to 2050 and beyond
£76.00
Bristol University Press The Pandemic Within
Book SynopsisThis book offers a blend of moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome the defects COVID-19 has exposed in our political-economic order. It shows how hegemony and complexity prevent societies from envisioning better practices and institutions and presents feasible solutions.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The pandemic within 2. At home in the world: overcoming the predicament of complexity and hegemony 3. Ensuring a well-functioning public infrastructure 4. Housing is a public good, not a commodity 5. Redefining work and income 6. The return of good government 7. Real corporate responsibility 8. Money as a public good 9. Living in the Anthropocene 10. Towards an ecological society
£23.74
The University of North Carolina Press Landscape of Migration
Book SynopsisIn the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the March to the East. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of this migration on the environment of the South American interior.
£32.96
The University of North Carolina Press Catastrophic Diplomacy US Foreign Disaster
Book SynopsisOffers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US foreign relations. Spanning over seventy years, the book examines how the US government, US military, and their partners in the American voluntary sector responded to major catastrophes around the world.
£23.96
University of Texas Press Ghostlight
Book SynopsisA collection of otherworldly photographs of Southern wetlands featuring an original ghost story. Southern wetlands, with their moss-draped trees and dark water obscuring mysteries below, are eerily beautiful places, home to ghost stories and haunting, ethereal light. The newest collection from award-winning photographer Keith Carter, Ghostlight captures the otherwordly spirits of swamps, marshes, bogs, baygalls, bayous, and fens in more than a hundred photographs. From Ossabaw Island, Georgia, to his home ground of East Texas, Carter seeks “the secretive and mysterious” of this often-overlooked landscape: wisps of fog drifting between tree branches; faceless figures contemplating a bog; owls staring directly at the camera lens; infinite paths leading to unknown parts. Similarly, spectral images are evoked in the original short story that opens this book. Ghostlight, writes best-selling author Bret Anthony Johnston, “hovers, darts, disappears. It can be as mean as a cottonmouth, as mischievous aes a child. The closer you get, the farther the light recedes.” A masterpiece of “Bayou Gothic,” Ghostlight challenges our perceptions and invites us to experience the beauty of this elusive world. Trade ReviewA stunning new book...[Ghostlight] conveys the strange allure of these brackish backwaters and their biological menagerie...Carter’s playful approach can be seen in nearly every photograph. Drawing from a deep bag of tricks, he can make photographs that resemble still-life paintings, chiaroscuro portraits, or carefully etched Japanese woodblock prints. His sepia-toned images have a timeless quality emphasized by their vignetting—an old-fashioned darkroom technique that subtly darkens the edges of a print. * Texas Monthly *Writer Bret Anthony Johnston sets the murky, mysterious tone in Ghostlight with a gothic short story that offers a haunting intonation to Keith Carter’s otherworldly wet-plate B&W photographs. Whispering, humid southern wetlands of moss-draped cypress trees and dark waters breathe spectral light, divulging ghostly apparitions and the gators, owls and other wild things secreted within. Carter’s caressing imagery is a stunning, atmospheric impression of southern mythology. * What Will You Remember? *Keith Carter’s monochromatic masterpiece Ghostlight uses stark contrasts to convey profound emotional depth. The interplay of light and shadow within its frames serves as a silent poetry, inviting readers to immerse themselves in the quiet narratives embedded in each photograph. * Smithsonian Magazine *
£35.10
Duke University Press Cartographic Memory
Book SynopsisIn Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera maps 1960s Chicano movement activism in the Latinx neighborhood of Fruitvale in Oakland, California, showing how activists there constructed a politics forged through productions of space. From Chicano-inspired street murals to the architecture of restaurants and shops, Herrera shows how Fruitvale's communities and spaces serve as a palpable, living record of movement politics and achievements. Drawing on oral histories with Chicano activists, ethnography, and archival research, Herrera analyzes how activism has shaped Fruitvale. Herrera examines the ongoing nature of activism through nonprofit organizations and urban redevelopment projects like the Fruitvale Transit Village that root movements in place. Revealing that the social justice activism in Fruitvale fights for a space that does not yet exist, Herrera brings to life contentious politics about the nature of Chicanismo, Latinidad, and belonging while foregrounding the lasting social and material legacies of movements so often relegated to the past.Trade Review“In Cartographic Memory, Juan Herrera carefully and elegantly examines Chicano movement activism and its legacies in Oakland, California’s Fruitvale neighborhood. . . . In these two ways—its analysis of the movement’s dynamic production of space, and in its focus on Oakland—Cartographic Memory is a signal achievement.” -- Laura Barraclough * Society and Space *"This book will helpfully inform the next generation of geographers, activists, and students on the crucial impact space has on social movements, and the ways social movements shape space and place." -- Aída R. Guhlincozzi * Environment, Space, Place *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Putting Fruitvale on the “Map” 1 1. Making Place 31 2. The Other Minority 61 3. Revolution Interrupted 89 4. Development for the People! 114 5. Mapping Interlinkages 144 Conclusion. Activism in Space-Time 171 Notes 197 References 219 Index 231
£18.89
Duke University Press Climate Lyricism
Book SynopsisMin Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how literature, poetry, and essays help us to better grapple with our everyday encounters with climate change.Trade Review“Coining climate lyricism, Min Hyoung Song recuperates collective agency as a mingling of attention, perception, and responsiveness. He doesn’t skirt the despair of climate catastrophe but, rather, reckons with it to find reasons to continue. The book follows its own lyrical flow as it integrates personal reflections from pandemic lockdown with readings of literary texts informed by ecocriticism and critical race theory. Song shows that questions of racist exclusion and harm are never far from questions of environmental thriving, just as the struggles of climate crisis are never far away even when they are not explicit on the page.” -- Heather Houser, author of * Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data *“Min Hyoung Song presents a thrilling and powerfully argued case for literature and poetry as a means of cultivating sustained attention to climate change in this tumultuous time. Using an innovative framework to draw forth the complex and multifaceted ways climate change becomes apprehensible, Climate Lyricism will undoubtedly make a significant impact on conversations in ecocriticism, contemporary literary studies, and studies of climate change.” -- Margaret Ronda, author of * Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End *"Song poses a fascinating question: how do poems and works of fiction that do not appear to be about climate change—particularly those more explicitly engaged with race—show traces of the ongoing ecological crisis? Song’s sources are contemporary and well chosen. . . . Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"Song’s engagement with writers of color throughout Climate Lyricism offers an important, compelling, and original intervention into both lyric studies and ecocriticism because historically, both of these fields have tended to center white voices and texts." -- Heather Milne * ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment *"Climate Lyricism provides valuable insights into how climate change affects different communities and cultures, including Asian Americans. It encourages readers to appreciate nature’s beauty and take action against climate change while emphasizing the need for solidarity among different ethnic groups when tackling environmental issues. This book is particularly relevant to Asian Americans as it urges them to play an active role in addressing this global challenge." -- Ang Li * Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Practice of Sustaining Attention to Climate Change 1 Part I. Scope 1. What is Denial? Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Teju Cole’s Open City, and Sally Wen Mao’s “Occidentalism” 19 2. Why Revive the Lyric? Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Craig Santos Perez’s “Love in a Time of Climate Change” 38 3. Why Stay with Bad Feelings? Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic and Tommy Pico’s IRL 65 4. How Should I Live? Inattention and Everyday-Life Projects 80 Part II. Breath 5. What’s Wrong with Narrative? The Promises and Disappointments of Climate Fiction 101 6. Where Are We Now? Scalar Variance, Persistence, Swing, and David Bowie 121 Part III. Urgency 7. The Scale of the Everyday, Part 1: The Keeling Curve, Frank O’Hara, and Bernadette Mayer 141 8. The Scale of the Everyday, Part 2: Ada Limón, Tommy Pico, and Solmaz Sharif 159 9. The Global Novel Imagines the Afterlife: George Saunders, J.M. Coetzee, and HanKang 180 Conclusion. The Foreign Present—Who Are We to Each Other? 201 Acknowledgments 213 Notes 217 Bibliography 233 Index 243
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Duke University Press How to Lose the Hounds
Book SynopsisIn How to Lose the Hounds Celeste Winston explores marronage—the practice of flight from and placemaking beyond slavery—as a guide to police abolition. She examines historically Black maroon communities in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, that have been subjected to violent excesses of police power from slavery until the present day. Tracing the long and ongoing historical geography of Black freedom struggles in the face of anti-Black police violence in these communities, Winston shows how marronage provides critical lessons for reimagining public safety and community well-being. These freedom struggles take place in what Winston calls maroon geographies—sites of flight from slavery and the spaces of freedom produced in multigenerational Black communities. Maroon geographies constitute part of a Black placemaking tradition that asserts life-affirming forms of community. Winston contends that maroon geographies operate as a central method of Black flight,Trade Review“Through Celeste Winston’s examination of early Black communities from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as her study of late modern Black communities in the twentieth century, we learn vital lessons about the value of marronage for our understandings of slavery, resistance, liberation, freedom, race, capitalism, and geography. Imagining Black futures beyond slavery and a world without the police, Winston offers a wonderful treatise that will reverberate throughout geography, Black studies, American studies, history, political theory, and decolonial politics. How to Lose the Hounds is an absolutely marvelous book and a magnificent achievement!” -- Neil Roberts, author of * Freedom as Marronage *“With its rich account of marronage in Montgomery County, Maryland, and beyond, Celeste Winston’s How to Lose the Hounds is a brilliant addition to the study of black flight, geographic transformations, and abolition. How to Lose the Hounds both succeeds as a rigorous study of maroon geographies, maroon justice and other maroon tactics and, importantly, insists that a careful understanding of ‘radical Black praxis of community’ is essential to the work toward police abolition.” -- Simone Browne, author of * Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue xiii Introduction 1 1. Maroon Folklore as an Abolition Technology 21 2. The Fugitive Infrastructure of Maroon Geographies 37 3. Maroon Justice 65 4. Community beyond Policing 87 5. Maroon Geographies and the Paradox of Abolition Policy 109 Epilogue: Abolition Future Folklore 129 Notes 133 References 139 Index 159
£18.99
New York University Press The Sustainability Myth
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2021 DELMOS JONES AND JAGNA SHARFF MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR THE CRITICAL STUDY OF NORTH AMERICA!Uncovers the hidden costs and contradictions of sustainable policies in an era driven by real estate developmentFrom state-of-the-art parks to rooftop gardens, efforts to transform New York City's unsightly industrial waterfronts into green, urban oases have received much public attention. In The Sustainability Myth, Melissa Checker uncovers the hidden costsand contradictionsof the city's ambitious sustainability agenda in light of its equally ambitious redevelopment imperatives. Focusing on industrial waterfronts and historically underserved places like Harlem and Staten Island's North Shore, Checker takes an in-depth look at the dynamics of environmental gentrification, documenting the symbiosis between eco-friendly initiatives and high-end redevelopment and its impact on out-of-the-way, non-gentrifying neighborhoods. At the same time, she highlights the valiant efforts of local Trade Review"Using the saga of the doomed New York Wheel as a dramatic example of short-sighted, ill-conceived urban development or 'sustainaphrenia,' Melissa Checker’s ethnography cruelly exposes the failings of neoliberal technocracy. From redlining to rezoning, from environmental justice to environmental gentrification, she brilliantly exposes the ruptured logics of pairing sustainability with urban redevelopment." -- Julian Agyeman, co-author of Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities"In this revelatory study, based on assiduous fieldwork, Melissa Checker exposes the false promises of “sustainability.” She coins the word 'sustainaphrenia' to convey the feeding frenzy of politicians, real estate moguls, developers, planners, and upscale homebuyers who are lulled by the siren of Bloomberg’s 'luxury city,' facilitated by the rezoning of vast swaths of New York City. The result is the greening of some neighborhoods and the browning of others. Checker also comes to the epiphany that the environmental justice activists whom she admired are another symptom of sustainaphrenia, as the twin threats of overdevelopment and climate change are cast asunder." -- Stephen Steinberg, author of Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy"A timely work on the burgeoning literature surrounding environmental gentrification as it relates to New York City’s intent to become the world’s most sustainable metro area … Libraries with reserves focusing on environmental gentrification, urban issues, and political change should have this volume in their collection." * CHOICE *
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University of Toronto Press Whats in Your Genome
Book SynopsisWhat’s in Your Genome? describes the functional regions of the human genome, the evidence that 90% of it is junk DNA, and the reasons this evidence has not been widely accepted by the popular press and much of the scientific community.The human genome contains about 25,000 protein-coding and noncoding genes and many other functional elements, such as origins of replication, regulatory elements, and centromeres. Functional elements occupy only about 10 percent of the more than three billion base pairs in the human genome. Much of the rest is composed of ancient fragments of broken genes, transposons, and viruses. Almost all of this is thought to be junk DNA, based on evidence that dates back fifty years. This conclusion is controversial. What’s in Your Genome? describes the arguments on both sides of the debate and attempts to explain the reasoning behind those different points of view. The book corrects a number of Table of ContentsPreface Prologue The Junk DNA War 1. Introducing Genomes 2. The Evolution of Sloppy Genomes 3. Repetitive DNA and Mobile Genetic Elements 4. Why Don’t Mutations Kill Us? 5. The Big Picture 6. How Many Genes? How Many Proteins? 7. Gene Families and the Birth and Death of Genes 8. Noncoding Genes and Junk RNA 9. The ENCODE Publicity Campaign 10. Turning Genes On and Off 11. Zen and the Art of Coping with a Poorly Designed Genome Glossary References Index
£26.99
University of Toronto Press Carbon Province Hydro Province
Book SynopsisWhy has Canada been unable to achieve any of its climate-change targets? Part of the reason is that emissions in two provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan already about half the Canadian total when taken together have been steadily increasing as a result of expanding oil and gas production. Declining emissions in other provinces, such as Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, have been cancelled out by those western increases. The ultimate explanation for Canadian failure lies in the differing energy interests of the western and eastern provinces, overlaid on the confederation fault-line of western alienation. Climate, energy, and national unity form a toxic mix. How can Ottawa possibly get all the provinces moving in the same direction of decreasing emissions? To answer this question, Douglas Macdonald explores the five attempts to date to put in place coordinated national policy in the fields of energy and climate change from Pierre Trudeau’s ill-fated NatTrade Review"Macdonald has written a book of transcendent importance for the development of a genuinely effective climate change plan. His formulation of negotiating scenarios, in particular, offers a constructive path forward, one that moves away from federal-provincial stalemates and the easy agreements that avoid actual solutions. And his masterful grasp of Canada's so far lame efforts in this arena is a major contribution to understanding where we have been and where we must go." -- Geoff White * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsA Parable of West and East 1. Introduction 1.1 Subject 1.2 Purpose 1.3 Methodology 1.4 Theoretical approach 1.5 Format 2. Energy and climate change intergovernmental relations 2.1 Historical evolution of Canadian intergovernmental relations 2.2 Mechanisms of Canadian intergovernmental relations 2.3 A flawed policy making process 2.4 Intergovernmental policy co-ordination 2.5 Energy and climate change jurisdiction 2.6 Energy and climate-change policy co-ordination 2.7 Federal government energy and climate-change strategy 3. Historical overview: Canadian energy and climate politics 3.1 Energy policy 1867 to 1989 3.2 National climate change policy in the 1990s 3.3 The Martin government 3.4 Public opinion on climate change 3.5 The Harper government 3.6 Provincial climate change policies 3.7 Energy policy 1989 to 2019 3.8 The Justin Trudeau government 3.9 Summary 4. Three underlying challenges 4.1 The West-East divide . Differing fossil fuel energy interests . Differing interests respecting climate change policy . Alberta's planned emission increases undercut reductions elsewhere . Western alienation 4.2 The inherent need to allocate greenhouse gas emission reductions 4.3 The weak intergovernmental process 5. Canadian national energy policy, 1973 - 1981 5.1 Narrative 5.2 Analysis 6. The first national climate change process 1990-1997 6.1 Narrative 6.2 Analysis 7. The second national climate change process 1998 - 2002 7.1 Narrative 7.2 Analysis 8. The Canadian Energy Strategy 2005-2015 8.1 Narrative 8.2 Analysis 9. The Pan-Canadian Framework 2015-2019 9.1 Narrative 9.2 Analysis 10. Drawing lessons 10.1 The three challenges and federal strategy 10.2 Factors affecting case outcomes 11. Putting in place an effective national climate change program
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University of Toronto Press Medieval Travel and Travelers
Book SynopsisIt is widely believed that people living in the Middle Ages seldom traveled. But, as Medieval Travel and Travelers reveals, many medieval people and not only Marco Polo were on the move for a variety of different reasons. Assuming no previous knowledge of medieval civilizations, this volume allows readers to experience the excitement of men and women who ventured into new lands. By addressing cross-cultural interaction, religion, and travel literature, the collection sheds light on how travel shaped the way we perceive the world, while also connecting history to the contemporary era of globalization. Including a mix of complete sources, excerpts, and images, Medieval Travel and Travelers provides readers with opportunities for further reflection on what medieval people expected to find in foreign locales, while sparking curiosity about undiscovered spaces and cultures.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Mapping Out Journeys 1. Maps a. T-O World Map b. Osma Beatus World Map c. Sawley (or Henry of Mainz) World Map d. Al-Idrisi World Map e. Carte pisane 2. Woodcuts of Cities (Parens [Poreč ], Corfu, Modon [Methoni]) 3. Woodcuts of People a. “Exotic” People (Saracens [Muslims], Jews, Greeks, Syrians, Ethiopians, Turks) b. Monsters 4. Cosmas Indikopleustes, The Christian Topography of Cosmas 5. Einsiedeln Itinerary 6. Einhard, The Translation and Miracles of Marcellinus and Peter 7. Paris Conversations 8. Richer of St-Rémi, Histories 9. Jordanus of Severac, Mirabilia descripta 10. Book of the Knowledge of All Kingdoms, Lands, and Lordships That Are in the World Chapter Two: Religious Journeys 11. Travel Prayers in the Gregorian Sacramentary 12. The Vision of Adamnán 13. Life of Anskar 14. The Western European Monk Bernard’s Journey to Jerusalem 15. Al-Tabari, The Prophet Ascends to the Seventh Heaven 16. The Seafarer 17. The Russian Primary Chronicle 18. Life of Saint Christopher 19. Benedict the Pole, Narrative 20. Pascal de Vitoria, Letter 21. The Book of Margery Kempe Chapter Three: Business Journeys 22. Ibn Khurraddadhbih, Book of Routes and Realms 23. The Reports of Ohthere and Wulfstan 24. Letters from Jewish Merchants in the Cairo Geniza 25. Marco Polo, Travels 26. Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, Merchant Handbook 27. Afanasy Nikitin, Voyage beyond Three Seas Chapter Four: Diplomatic Journeys 28. Ibn Fadlan, Mission to the Volga 29. Liudprand of Cremona, Retribution and Embassy 30. Rabban Sauma, Travelogue 31. Ghiyyath al-Din Naqqash, A Persian Embassy to China 32. Abd-al-Razzaq Samarqandi, Narrative of the Journey Chapter Five: Journeys of Discovery and Adventure 33. Saga of the Greenlanders 34. Nasir-i Khusraw, Book of Travels 35. Benjamin of Tudela, Itinerary 36. Ibn Jubayr, Travels 37. Ibn Battuta, Rihla 38. Petrarch, Ascent of Mt. Ventoux 39. Pero Tafur, Voyages and Adventures 40. Jörg von Ehingen, Diary Sources Index of Topics
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University of Nebraska Press A Different Trek
Book SynopsisBy analyzing the rich ethical and political world-building of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, David K. Seitz argues that race and geography are central to appreciating the series’ profound critiques of neoliberal multiculturalism and U.S. empire.Trade Review"Drawing comparisons between our current cultural milieu and the universe as depicted in DS9, Seitz presents us with a much more nuanced view of the typical utopian-oriented views of science fiction. . . . In A Different Trek author Seitz gives us a lot to think about as we contemplate our present and our possible futures."—Kevin Folkman, Association for Mormon Letters“Like the Orbs of the Prophets, David Seitz’s A Different ‘Trek’ illuminates the deeper teachings of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. An incisive analysis of DS9, Seitz gives us a compelling examination of how the stories of the series, while imperfect, go where no Star Trek has gone before, challenging the consequences of militarism, colonialism, and capitalism that are too often overlooked in the liberal utopianism of the franchise. Clear-eyed and thoughtful, A Different ‘Trek’ is the close read of Deep Space Nine that we have been waiting for, built on respect and recognition of the Black intellectual and radical work foundational to both the field of cultural studies and the art of generations of Black Star Trek actors.”—Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred“A remarkable guide to a remarkable series. Equally versed in contemporary debates in Black studies and critical theory and in Star Trek lore—and equally skilled in explaining both to outsiders—not only does David Seitz make the case for the relevance of Deep Space Nine for Leftist thought. His critical yet generous stance also provides a model for future investigations into the ways that commercial entertainment can transcend its origins and speak creatively to the political dilemmas of its age.”—Adam Kotsko, author of Neoliberalism’s Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital “Deep Space Nine extended the critical promise of Star Trek into our homes in an unprecedented way. Students of recent history, twentieth-century geographies, contemporary militarism, queer studies, and Afrofuturism should read A Different ‘Trek’. David Seitz reopens this chapter in popular culture to remind us that staying in place—especially on a planet like ours, with its bloodstained maps and shifting tides of power—affords us every possibility to confront legacies of injustice and imagine radical futures.”—andré m. carrington, author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction“David Seitz displays a vast knowledge of Star Trek lore, storylines, and fandom and masterfully deploys a constellation of lenses—queer and critical race theory, Marxism, feminism, and psychoanalysis—to turn a penetrating but generous gaze on the Trek universe. He brilliantly explores the anticolonial and inter-imperialist struggles central to Deep Space Nine as an unstable allegory of neoliberal racial capitalism from the United States to Palestine.”—Tim McCaskell, author of Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism“This is a rich and conceptually diverse account of political possibility in the series Deep Space Nine. Through his characterization of racial capitalism at the heart of the Star Trek universe, David Seitz powerfully draws out the geopolitical tensions between the possibilities of 1990s U.S. liberal humanism and its constitutive violences. I now want to go back to the beginning of the series to re-view it in light of the insights and observations offered in the book.”—Jo Sharp, professor of geography at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and author of Geographies of PostcolonialismTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface: Beyond Uhura, “Beyond Vietnam” Acknowledgments Abbreviations Dramatis Personae Introduction: Reading Racial Capitalism from DS9 1. The Radical Sisko 2. Cardassian Settler Colonialism and the Bajoran Struggle for Decolonization 3. Jem’Hadar Marronage and the Dominion “Order of Things” 4. Defetishizing the Ferengi 5. O’Brien Family Values 6. Empire’s Queer Inheritances Conclusion: “This Darker Thing” Notes References Index
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Cornell University Press The Geopolitics of Spectacle
Book SynopsisWhy do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? In The Geopolitics of Spectacle, Natalie Koch considers how autocratic rulers use spectacular projects to shape state-society relations, but rather than focus on the standard approachon the project itselfshe considers the unspectacular others. The contrasting views of those from the poorest regions toward these new national capitals help her develop a geographic approach to spectacle.Koch uses Astana in Kazakhstan to exemplify her argument, comparing that spectacular city with others from resource-rich, nondemocratic nations in central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia. The Geopolitics of Spectacle draws new political-geographic lessons and shows that these spectacles can be understood only from multiple viewpoints, sites, and temporalities. Koch explicitly theorizes spectacle geographically and in so doing extends the analysis of governmentality into new empirical and theoretical terrain.<Trade ReviewWith its accessible writing style and lively anecdotal interludes, The Geopolitics of Spectacle invites critical thinking about the often alluded to, yet seldom critically assessed, discourse of the 'theatrical' or 'false modernity' of Asian cities in popular Western media. Reading Koch's book will therefore not only teach us much about political geography, but will also train us to overcome 'intellectual laziness' and become critically informed spectators of some of the world's fastest emerging cities. * LSE Review of Books *A thoughtful study in political geography. * Journal of Peace Research *Provides [a] compelling vision of what urban practices can do politically. [Koch] brings years of fieldwork experience and regional expertise that make the book [a] strong contribution to... political geography as well as urban studies more broadly. [Her] theoretical findings are deployable in contexts beyond Asia and MENA and [is] a welcome addition to the growing political geographic literature on urbanization. * Geopolitics *While theoretically rich, Geopolitics of Spectacle is at the same time written in a skilful and accessible way. It is an important contribution to the fields of human geography, political studies and anthropology. Koch's monograph is an inspiring work, worth recommending to scholars interested in a wide range of topics: from urban studies, broadly defined post-Soviet studies or area studies to governmentality and citizenship. * Inner Asia *The Geopolitics of Spectacle is an interesting piece or writing, in itself a detournement through difficult to access spaces and places, as well as its more shiny and dramatic foci. Well structured and with a strong narrative drive, the reader will certainly consider boarding train 84 for that long ride from Kazanski station to Astana Nurly Jol... This reviewer will certainly pay this book a second visit. * Eurasian Geography and Economics *The Geopolitics of Spectacle is an essential contribution to multidisciplinary fields that deal with global dynamics of urbanization, authoritarianism in urban politics, nation-building and identity politics, and the geographies of megaprojects. A work that is essential for the researcher, it is also highly readable, concise, and timely; an ideal text for graduate and undergraduate courses. * Journal of Urban Affairs *Koch's book provides a refreshingly concrete theoretical framework for understanding spectacle in a non-Western, non-democratic context... The book is further innovative in its methodological approach, which directly tackles the shortcomings of conventional area-based analyses fixated on commonalities across case studies, rather than their divergences. By making a case for divergent-case comparisons, Koch is able to break away from the all-too-often default comparison of Central Asia with its former Soviet counterparts, a comparison that may not always be the most relevant. By widening our understanding of suitable cases for comparison, the book opens new channels for framing Central Asian research in other disciplines. * Central Asian Affairs *In essence, the work scores on account of being novel both in theme and approach. Its objectives are clearly defined and the author has been successful in meeting these. The treatise is thoughtfully conceived, soundly researched, well-argued and lucidly expressed. More important, it looks beyond established stereotypes and includes voices from the margins, not just in the choice of case studies but within the case studies as well. The work locates itself at a research frontier and deserves to be commended equally for its perspective, approach, and methodology. * Social & Cultural Geography *[The Geopolitics of Spectacle] provide[s] critical accounts of Astana as a symbol of Kazakhstan's modernity and use[s] the experience of people who work in and outside Astana to substantiate that critique. * Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Spectacular Urbanism and the New Capitals of Asia 1. Approaching Spectacle Geographically 2. From Almaty to Astana: Capitalizing the Territory in Kazakhstan 3. From Astana to Aral: Making Inequality Enchant in Kazakhstan's Hinterlands 4. From Astana to Asia: Spectacular Cities and the New Capitals of Asia Compared Conclusion: Synecdoche and the Geopolitics of Spectacular Urbanism in Asia
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Cornell University Press How to Build a Global City
Book SynopsisIn How to Build a Global City, Michele Acuto considers the rise of a new generation of so-called global citiesSingapore, Sydney, and Dubaiand the power that this concept had in their ascent, in order to analyze the general relationship between global city theory and its urban public policy practice.The global city is often invoked in theory and practice as an ideal model of development and a logic of internationalization for cities the world over. But the global city also creates deep social polarization and challenges how much local planning can achieve in a world economy. Presenting a unique elite ethnography in Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai, Acuto discusses the global urban discourses, aspirations, and strategies vital to the planning and management of such metropolitan growth.The global city, he shows, is not one single idea, but a complex of ways to imagine a place to be global and aspirations to make it so, often deeply steeped in politTrade ReviewThere is much potential for fruitful engagement with this book—not least from a perspective that is less critical than that of the author. * International Journal of Urban and Regional Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Speaking of Global Cities 2. The Idea(s) 3. The Debates 4. The Rise 5. The Trajectories 6. The Distinction 7. The Leadership 8. The Governance 9. The Strategies 10. The Cityzens 11. The Comparisons 12. Symbolic Entrepreneurs Postscript
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Cornell University Press The Plastic Turn
Book SynopsisThe Plastic Turn offers a novel way of looking at plastic as the defining material of our age and at the plasticity of plastic as an innovative means of understanding the arts and literature. Ranjan Ghosh terms this approach the material-aesthetic and, through this concept, traces the emergence and development of plastic polymers along the same historical trajectory as literary modernism. Plastic''s growth as a product in the culture industry, its formation through multiple application and chemical syntheses, and its circulation via oceanic movements, Ghosh argues, correspond with, and offers novel insights into, developments in modernist literature and critical theory.Through innovative readings of canonical modernist texts, analyses of art works, and accounts of plastic''s devastating environmental impact, The Plastic Turn proposes plastic''s unique properties and destructive ubiquity as a theory machine to explain literature and life in tTrade ReviewGhosh uses plastic metaphorically and in an innovative way to advance understanding of literature, art, and life in the present. In so doing, he develops a new material aesthetic, one that offers a new way to view history, ontology, and ecology as well as literature and the arts. * Choice *Ecocriticism's ongoing heterogenization mirrors broader strides in the environmental humanities, including advances in green postcolonial analysis, ice humanities, plant studies, waste studies, and related ecohumanistic domains. As a case in point, a significant contribution to ecocritical examinations of waste is Ranjan Ghosh's The Plastic Turn. Through a material-aesthetic optic, Ghosh genealogizes the impact of the plastic polymer on critical theory and literary modernism * The Year's Work in Critical & Cultural Theory *An original and worthwhile reading experience for all those concerned with the humanities, the Anthropocene, the written word and the ecology of good and bad ideas. Ghosh's The Plastic Turn not only breaks the mold of literary criticism but asks others to refashion critical literature in elastic, versatile and plastic ways. * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsTurn to... 1. The Plastic Turn 2. Plastic Literary 3. Plastic Touch 4. Plastic Literature 5. Plastic Affect Turn on...
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Cornell University Press In This Together
Book SynopsisIn This Together explores how we can harness our social networks to make a real impact fighting the climate crisis. Against notions of the lone environmental crusader, Marianne E. Krasny shows us the power of network climate actionthe idea that our own ordinary acts can influence and inspire those close to us. Through this spread of climate-conscious practices, our individual actions become collective ones that can eventually effect widespread change.Weaving examples of everyday climate-forward initiatives in with insights on behavioral and structural change, Krasny demonstrates how we can scale up the impact of our efforts through leveraging our community connections. Whether by inviting family, friends, or colleagues to a plant-rich meal or by becoming activists at climate nonprofits, we can forge the social norms and shared identities that can lead to change. With easy-to-follow dos and don''ts, In This Together shows us a practical and hopeful
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Cornell University Press Survival and Witness at Europes Border
Book SynopsisSurvival and Witness at Europe''s Border focuses on one of the most mediatized migrant disasters in Europe. On October 3, 2013, an overcrowded fishing boat carrying Eritrean refugees caught fire near Lampedusa, Italy, where 368 people died. Karina Horsti shows with empathy and passion how this disaster produced a kaleidoscope of afterlives that continue to assume different forms depending on the position of the witness or survivors. Pasts and futures intersect in the present when people who were touched by the disaster engage with its memory and politics. Horsti underscores how the perspective of survival can envision a way forward from a horrific unsustainable present. Survival and Witness at Europe''s Border develops the concept of survival to rethink border deaths beyond the structures and processes that produce the murderous border and constitute the focus of critical migration studies. It demonstrates how the process of survival transfoTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Words 2. Images 3. Enumeration, Naming, Photos 4. Adopting the Dead 5. Memorial Interventions 6. Memory Politics 7. Survivor Citizenship 8. Survival 9. Surviving the Death of Another Epilogue: Kebrat's Story
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Stanford University Press Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The
Book SynopsisIn 1524, a man named David Reubeni appeared in Venice, claiming to be the ambassador of a powerful Jewish kingdom deep in the heart of Arabia. In this era of fierce rivalry between great powers, voyages of fantastic discovery, and brutal conquest of new lands, people throughout the Mediterranean saw the signs of an impending apocalypse and envisioned a coming war that would end with a decisive Christian or Islamic victory. With his army of hardy desert warriors from lost Israelite tribes, Reubeni pledged to deliver the Jews to the Holy Land by force and restore their pride and autonomy. He would spend a decade shuttling between European rulers in Italy, Portugal, Spain, and France, seeking weaponry in exchange for the support of his hitherto unknown but mighty Jewish kingdom. Many, however, believed him to favor the relatively tolerant Ottomans over the persecutorial Christian regimes. Reubeni was hailed as a messiah by many wealthy Jews and Iberia's oppressed conversos, but his grand ambitions were halted in Regensburg when the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, turned him over to the Inquisition and, in 1538, he was likely burned at the stake. Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah is the first English translation of Reubeni's Hebrew-language diary, detailing his travels and personal travails. Written in a Hebrew drawn from everyday speech, entirely unlike other literary works of the period, Reubeni's diary reveals both the dramatic desperation of Renaissance Jewish communities and the struggles of the diplomat, trickster, and dreamer who wanted to save them.Trade Review"Alan Verskin has once again proven himself to be a master translator with this English rendering of the Hebrew diary of the semi-messianic figure, David Reubeni. Verskin is no less a master storyteller who vividly recreates the historical setting of Reubeni's activity in his detailed introduction, which is eminently scholarly yet fully accessible."—Norman A. Stillman, Executive Editor of Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World"A fantastical tale of adventure, political intrigue, and apocalyptic expectation, David Reubeni's diary is surely one of the most fascinating pieces of Jewish writing from the age of exploration. Alan Verskin's elegant and eminently readable translation reveals the exploits of this self-declared messenger of a mythical Jewish kingdom as he pursues his unlikely quest to restore Jews to their ancient homeland."—Matthias B. Lehmann, author of The Baron"There were several ways in which Verskin could have approached this project. The material is so rich that he could have produced an updated English version of Aaron Ze'ev Aescoly's thick, heavily annotated and augmented 1940 Hebrew edition of the diary. But this would have been the work of several decades. On the other hand, he could have given us a bare translation with minimal apparatus. This small, elegant volume, which features Verskin's rich thirty-page introduction and deft, helpful endnotes, seems just right."—Matt Goldish, Jewish Review of Books"Almost everything known about Reubeni derives from his Hebrew diary, which Verskin here translates and presents along with an introduction to Reubeni's life and detailed notes that make the diary accessible. Even as scholars continue to debate Reubeni's origins and biography, this engaging book does a wonderful service by introducing Reubeni through his own telling of his quite remarkable story. Recommended."—A. J. Avery-Peck, CHOICE"Verskin's solid introduction allows the reader to fully appreciate how unique this diary is for the history of modern Jewish history.... Diary of a Jewish Messiah is recommended to all libraries."—Roger S. Kohn, Association of Jewish Libraries ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Africa 2. Egypt and the Holy Land 3. Italy 4. Portugal 5. Spain Appendix: Solomon Cohen's Addendum
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University of Minnesota Press Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in
Book SynopsisTraces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doomActivists today strive to educate the public about climate change, but sociologists have found that the more we know about alarming issues, the less likely we are to act. Meanwhile, environmentalists have acquired a reputation as gloom-and-doom killjoys. Bad Environmentalism identifies contemporary texts that respond to these absurdities and ironies through absurdity and irony—as well as camp, frivolity, irreverence, perversity, and playfulness. Nicole Seymour develops the concept of “bad environmentalism”: cultural thought that employs dissident affects and sensibilities to reflect critically on our current moment and on mainstream environmental activism. From the television show Wildboyz to the short film series Green Porno, Seymour shows that this tradition of thought is widespread—spanning animation, documentary, fiction film, performance art, poetry, prose fiction, social media, and stand-up comedy since at least 1975. Seymour argues that these texts reject self-righteousness and sentimentality, undercutting public negativity toward activism and questioning basic environmentalist assumptions: that love and reverence are required for ethical relationships with the nonhuman and that knowledge is key to addressing problems like climate change.Funny and original, Bad Environmentalism champions the practice of alternative green politics. From drag performance to Indigenous comedy, Seymour expands our understanding of how environmental art and activism can be pleasurable, even in a time of undeniable crisis.Trade Review"Bad Environmentalism confronts serious environmental problems by way of ‘unserious’ texts. Nicole Seymour takes on complex ideas with lucidity, economy, and a witty sense of humor. Against the familiar affects that tend to characterize both environmentalism and environmental studies—such as awe, love, guilt, reverence, and earnestness—Bad Environmentalism pits less solemn alternatives, including playfulness, impropriety, irreverence, irony, frivolity, and glee. I am a convert. Bad environmentalists, unite!"—Jennifer K. Ladino, author of Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature"In an era in which environmental crises have been normalized and environmentalists are viewed by many as overly earnest irritants, Nicole Seymour gives us something we crave (even if we’re loathe to admit it!). Bad Environmentalism offers stunningly original, creative, and playful readings of a diverse range of cultural forms, refuses the binaries of eco-purity politics, and advances a hearty support of ambiguity, irreverence, contradiction, humor, and pleasure, while holding firm against the racism and homophobia that often undergird mainstream environmentalist campaigns and logics. This is a challenging, often hilarious, and game-changing book."—David Naguib Pellow, author of What is Critical Environmental Justice? "As it turns out, climate change and the environment can be a laughing matter—at least, at an absurd or satirical level."—Foreword Reviews "Bad Environmentalism stands as an important example of the ways that humanities scholarship can make important interventions into issues of great political importance such as climate change."—LSE Review of Books "A valuable contribution to ecocriticism"—CHOICE "Given the increasingly flawed assumption that environmental knowledge will inevitably lead to action, Seymour’s Bad Environmentalism creates a space to engage with texts and critical approaches that question, ironize, and challenge the limits of environmental knowledge and feeling, and that open up new ways of thinking ecologically."—The Goose "One must give credit to Bad Environmentalism for creating space for such self-reflexivity among political activists, scholars, and students alike."—Social and Cultural Geography "Films... burden the environmental movement with demands for an unattainable and easily critiqued form of perfect environmental morality. Rather, as Bad Environmentalism unswervingly proposes, environmentalists do not need to be perfect. Demands of flawlessness often allow those who deny climate change to consistently define activists as hypocritical when those campaigners drive gas-powered cars to protests, use jet fuel to fly to movie premieres, or load trash bins with protest signs."—Interface "This book was a joy to read. That is not how I feel about anything Wendell Berry or Terry Tempest Williams ever wrote, however, and Nicole Seymour’s aim (in part) is to explain why, and why I should not feel ashamed about it. Environmentalism, she insists, is a performance, and, more often than not, its performance has featured suffocating earnestness, sanctimony, seriousness, and self-righteousness. Bad Environmentalism exposes and challenges this “good affect” by turning attention away from the mainstream and toward “dissident” cultural margins. "—Environmental History "Calling for alternative and expressive environmentalisms, Nicole Seymour’s Bad Environmentalism exposes the limited affects associated with mainstream environmentalism."—ISLE "She has crafted an important book that asks us—but also teaches us—to drop hierarchies of morality and identity and open our eyes to alternative visions of surviving on this planet, equitably, together."—Public Books "I consider Seymour’s analysis a crucial intervention in the privileging of the mainstream environmental messages found in documentaries by Al Gore, James Balog, and others. "—The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory "A crucial intervention in the privileging of the mainstream environmental messages found in documentaries by Al Gore, James Balog, and others."—Ecocriticism "Nicole Seymour’s Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age offers its archive of “bad environmentalism” to help dismantle the affective and ideological barriers that situate the environment as our sanctified, unfunny, nonhuman Other, one whose moral, ethical, and aesthetic standards we fail to live up to (even as we threaten to destroy it)."—H-Net Reviews "Bad Environmentalism, besides reminding us to check our privilege and our blind spots, gives us permission to employ affective modes that we might, in these troubling times, be tempted to suppress. Perhaps it’s not wrong to laugh as well as cry, even as the Amazon burns. Perhaps we can allow ourselves to be irritated by the sanctimony of some environmentalist voices. "—Ecozon@ "Theoretical in nature, the book never overwhelms the reader with deep dives into critical theorists unfamiliar to historians. Instead, it is funny, enjoyable and a call for a new type of action. "—Not Even Past Table of ContentsIntroduction1. “I’m No Botanist, but . . .”: Irony, Ecocinema, and the Problem of Expert Knowledge2. “So Much to See, So Little to Learn”: Perverting Nature/Wildlife Programming3. Climate Change Is a Drag and Camping Can Be Campy: On Queer Environmental Performance4. Animatronic Indians and Black Folk Who Don’t: Rewriting Racialized Environmental Affect5. Gas-Guzzling, Beer-Chugging, Tree Huggers: Toward Trashy EnvironmentalismsConclusion AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography
Book SynopsisA collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist workOn the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre’s crucial but lesser-known writings on rural sociology and political economy, presenting a wide-ranging approach to understanding the historical and rural sociology of precapitalist social forms, their endurance today, and conditions of dispossession and uneven development. In On the Rural, Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton present Lefebvre’s key works on rural questions, including the first half of his book Du rural à l’urbain and supplementary texts, two of which are largely unknown conference presentations published outside France. On the Rural offers methodological orientations for addressing questions of economy, sociology, and geography by deploying insights from spatial political economy to decipher the rural as a terrain and stake of capitalist transformation. By doing so, it reveals the production of the rural as a key site of capitalist development and as a space of struggle. This volume delivers a careful translation—supplemented with extensive notes and a substantive introduction—to cement Lefebvre’s central contribution to the political economy of rural sociology and geography. Trade Review"On the Rural is a remarkable collection. Lefebvre wrote as a historian, a sociologist, a geographer, a political-economist, and a philosopher. This makes for challenging reading at times but there are also brilliant passages that will goad readers on to the next page. "—Cleveland Review of BooksTable of ContentsFrom the Rural to the Urban and the Production of SpaceStuart Elden and Adam David MortonNotes on TranslationAcknowledgments1. Introduction to From the Rural to the Urban (1969)2. Problems of Rural Sociology: The Peasant Community and its Historical-Sociological Problems (1949)3. Social Classes in Rural Areas: Tuscany and the mezzadria classica (1950)4. Perspectives on Rural Sociology (1953)5. Social Relations, Population Phenomena, and Labor Problems in the Agricultural Sector of Underdeveloped Countries (1954)6. The Village Community (1956)7. The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology (1956)8. The Marxist–Leninist Theory of Ground Rent (1964)9. Introduction to the Psychosociology of Everyday Life (1960)10. The New Urban Complex: Lacq-Mourenx and the Urban Problems of the New Working Class (1960)11. Experimental Utopia: For a New Urbanism (1961)12. The Valley of Campan: A Study in Historical Sociology (1963)Publication HistoryIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Quiet Violence of Empire: How USAID Waged
Book SynopsisHow the U.S. empire-state transformed post-1945 Afghanistan into a key site for reimagining development Established in 1961 by President Kennedy, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is often viewed as an extension of the security state, playing a constant role on the ground in Afghanistan since the early sixties. The Quiet Violence of Empire traces USAID’s long and bloody history of development work in the region, revealing an empirically rich account of the transnational entanglements of imperialism and racial capitalism.Wesley Attewell carefully analyzes three chronological moments of development as counterinsurgency in action: the Helmand Valley Project, the Soviet–Afghan conflict, and the post-9/11 occupation in Afghanistan. These case studies expose how USAID’s very public commitment to bringing seemingly inclusionary forms of self-help, technical assistance, and market development to Afghanistan has been undergirded by longer-standing infrastructures of race war and racial management. Attewell exposes how one of the net effects of USAID’s development mission to Afghanistan has been to constrain the life chances of Afghan beneficiaries while simultaneously diverting development capital back to U.S. contractors, deftly underscoring the notion of development as a form of slow violence.The Quiet Violence of Empire asks the critical question: how might we refuse the ruse of USAID and its endlessly deferred promise of development? Thinking relationally across the fields of human geography, global studies, and critical ethnic studies, it uncovers the explicitly racial underpinnings of international development theory and praxis.Trade Review"This richly detailed and thoughtfully argued book shows the United States's deadly politics of aid and development as the race war that it is. A necessary reading of the twenty-first-century war on Afghanistan."—Laleh Khalili, Queen Mary University of London
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University of Minnesota Press Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in
Book SynopsisHow contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles Stunning Indigenous resistance to the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines has made global headlines in recent years. Less remarked on are the crucial populist movements that have also played a vital role in pipeline resistance. Kai Bosworth explores the influence of populism on environmentalist politics, which sought to bring together Indigenous water protectors and environmental activists along with farmers and ranchers in opposition to pipeline construction.Here Bosworth argues that populism is shaped by the “affective infrastructures” emerging from shifts in regional economies, democratic public-review processes, and scientific controversies. With this lens, he investigates how these movements wax and wane, moving toward or away from other forms of environmental and political ideologies in the Upper Midwest. This lens also lets Bosworth place populist social movements in the critical geographical contexts of racial inequality, nationalist sentiments, ongoing settler colonialism, and global empire—crucial topics when grappling with the tensions embedded in our era’s immense environmental struggles.Pipeline Populism reveals the complex role populism has played in shifting interpretations of environmental movements, democratic ideals, scientific expertise, and international geopolitics. Its rich data about these grassroots resistance struggles include intimate portraits of the emotional spaces where opposition is first formed. Probing the very limits of populism, Pipeline Populism presents essential work for an era defined by a wave of people-powered movements around the world.Trade Review "Pipeline Populism is an endlessly insightful, generative study of environmental populism as a response to extractivism and neoliberal environmentalism. Sensitive to multiracial populism’s democratic aspirations and its settler colonial desires, Kai Bosworth offers a vital guide to the limits of populist pipeline resistance and its resources for more revolutionary socialist transformation. This is essential reading for those interested in left-wing populism and climate justice alike."—Laura Grattan, author of Populism’s Power: Radical Grassroots Democracy in America "Environmental populism is a genre of white settler politics that may reiterate the worst parts of American hubris and anti-government individualism, but it may also have openings within it for transformation, through solidarity with indigenous people and more radical political action. Kai Bosworth’s wonderful analysis of the ‘affective infrastructures’ of environmental populism helps us see the politics of climate change, and of populism, with a sharper and more nuanced eye. This book is an indispensable guide to many of the problems plaguing left-wing environmental politics, and it also offers us a clearer vision with which to move forward, both as academics and political actors."—Lida Maxwell, author of Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling "Pipeline’s focus on populism is a unique approach to defining and engaging with the climate movement, bringing together geographical and political concerns to approach questions of community organization and activist movements. "—H-Net Reviews Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Affective Infrastructures of Populist Environmentalism1. “This Land Is Our Land”: Private Property and Territorialized Resentment2. “Keystone XL Hearing Nearly Irrelevant”: Participation and Resigned Pragmatism3. Canadian Invasion for Chinese Consumption: Foreign Oil and Heartland Melodrama4. The People Know Best: Counter-Expertise and Jaded ConfidenceConclusion: The Desire to Be PopularNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of
Book SynopsisHow afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plantsIn Plant Life, Rosetta S. Elkin explores the procedures of afforestation, the large-scale planting of trees in otherwise treeless environments, including grasslands, prairies, and drylands. Elkin reveals that planting a tree can either be one of the ultimate offerings to thriving on this planet, or one of the most extreme perversions of human agency over it. Using three supracontinental case studies—scientific forestry in the American prairies, colonial control in Africa’s Sahelian grasslands, and Chinese efforts to control and administer territory—Elkin explores the political implications of plant life as a tool of environmentalism. By exposing the human tendency to fix or solve environmental matters by exploiting other organisms, this work exposes the relationship between human and plant life, revealing that afforestation is not an ecological act: rather, it is deliberately political and distressingly social. Plant Life ultimately reveals that afforestation cannot offset deforestation, an important distinction that sheds light on current environmental trends that suggest we can plant our way out of climate change. By radicalizing what conservation protects and by framing plants in their total aliveness, Elkin shows that there are many kinds of life—not just our own—to consider when advancing environmental policy. Trade Review "In Plant Life, the misadventures of tree planting campaigns around the world expose a fundamental failure to understand things that are alive. Human cultivation—a blunt apparatus often focused only on an above-ground outcropping—usually manages to kill plants. Rosetta S. Elkin’s lush and stringent narratives travel instead within the roots and ramifying relationships that huge forests and grasslands generate when they are simply allowed to grow—a live rhizosphere in the crust of the earth."—Keller Easterling, Yale University "With climate change comes a recognition that we are part of a global landscape and that we need to think at this scale. However, even as we need to ‘think global, act local,’ what Rosetta S. Elkin shows in her in her deep and multi-faceted reading of afforestation projects is that in doing so we must really ‘think local, act global.’"—Julian Raxworthy, University of Canberra "Tightly argued and rigorously researched, Plant Life draws on history, geography, political ecology, botany, landscape ecology, and climate science to present a powerful critique of afforestation. "—Landscape Architecture Magazine "Delving into philosophical treatises, colonial archives, and botanical manuals that span such themes as soil science, plant morphology, and taxonomy, Elkin convincingly argues that planting is a social—not ecological—act that radically reshapes landscapes based on models of standardization and replicability."—H-Net Reviews Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionArtifact1. The Problem of Parts2. Great Green Wall3. Genus FaidherbiaIndex4. Confronting Treelessness5. Prairie States Forestry Project6. Ulmus pumilaL.Trace7. Contextual Indifference8. Three Norths Shelter System9. Species PopulusEpilogueNotesIndex
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Fordham University Press What Is Extinction?: A Natural and Cultural
Book SynopsisLife on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries, exploring instances of animal and human finitude and the cultural forms used to document and interpret these events. Offering a critical theory for the critically endangered, Joshua Schuster proposes that different discourses of limits and lastness appear in specific extinction events over time as a response to changing attitudes toward species frailty. Understanding these extinction events also involves examining what happens when the conceptual and cultural forms used to account for species finitude are pressed to their limits as well. Schuster provides close readings of several case studies of extinction that bring together environmental humanities and multispecies methods with media-specific analyses at the terminus of life. What Is Extinction? delves into the development of last animal photography, the anthropological and psychoanalytic fascination with human origins and ends, the invention of new literary genres of last fictions, the rise of new extreme biopolitics in the Third Reich that attempted to change the meaning of extinction, and the current pursuit of de-extinction technologies. Schuster offers timely interpretations of how definitions and visions of extinction have changed in the past and continue to change in the present.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Part I 1 Photographing the Last Animal | 43 2 Indigeneity and Anthropology in Last Worlds | 69 Part II 3 Literary Extinctions and the Existentiality of Reading | 109 4 Concepts of Extinction in the Holocaust | 134 Part III 5 Critical Theory for the Critically Endangered | 167 6 What Is De-Extinction? | 198 Conclusion | 231 Acknowledgments | 247 Notes | 251 Index | 279
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University of Calgary Press Places: Linking Nature and Culture for Understanding and Planning
Book SynopsisThis book identifies the major deficiency in the field of environmental planning, which is that issues are addressed from the perspective of one discipline or one dimension. The ABC method outlined in the book provides a holistic framework for analyzing the environment and guiding environmental management. Dr. Thomas Gunton, Director, Resource and Environmental Planning Program, Simon Fraser UniversityHow can we make the best use of the places we live in? In recent years, environmental conservation and sustainable development have become critical parts of the planning equation. However, most attempts to incorporate these considerations have focused too narrowly on specialized economic, geologic, biological, or other factors. James Gordon Nelson and Patrick L. Lawrence present a new, more complete approach to planning - the ABC method. The ABC method links Abiotic, Biotic, and Cultural factors in a systematic and comprehensive analysis with the aim of achieving better understanding of and planning for the challenges facing places and the people living in them. Examples of the ABC method are presented through international case studies and are illustrated with photographs and maps.Places: Linking Nature and Culture for Understanding and Planning is written for environmental planners, decision-makers, students, and all those who are concerned about the history and future of places, presenting a new, more highly integrated way of thinking that will help address serious challenges in effective, efficient, and equitable ways.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Relations Between Culture & Nature: A Critical Consideration; Human Ecology Reconceptualised: A Lens for Relations Between Biological & Cultural Diversity; "Man & His Friends" -- An Illustrative Case of Human Ecology in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada; "The Weather is Going under" -- Human Ecology, Phronesis & Climate Change in Wainwright, Alaska, USA; Mapping Human Ecology: A Transformative Act; Implications of a Human Ecological Outlook; Index.
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Toward a Vision of Land in 2015 – International Perspectives
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Conserving State Trust Lands – Strategies for the
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University of Iowa Press Contested City: Art and Public History as
Book SynopsisFor forty years, as New York’s Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the neighborhood, a wasteland of vacant lots known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). Most of the buildings on the fourteen-square-block area were condemned in 1967, displacing thousands of low-income people of color with the promise that they would soon return to new housing—housing that never came. Over decades, efforts to keep out affordable housing sparked deep-rooted enmity and stalled development, making SPURA a dramatic study of failed urban renewal, as well as a microcosm epitomizing the greatest challenges faced by American cities since World War II. Artist and urban scholar Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani was invited to enter this tense community to support a new approach to planning, which she accepted using collaboration, community organizing, public history, and public art. Having engaged her students at The New School in a multi-year collaboration with community activists, the exhibitions and guided tours of her Layered SPURA project provided crucial new opportunities for dialogue about the past, present, and future of the neighborhood. Simultaneously revealing the incredible stories of community and activism at SPURA, and shedding light on the importance of collaborative creative public projects, Contested City bridges art, design, community activism, and urban history. This is a book for artists, planners, scholars, teachers, cultural institutions, and all those who seek to collaborate in new ways with communities.
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New Village Press Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies, and
Book SynopsisReady-to-go, vetted approaches for facilitating artistic environmental projects How do we educate those who feel an urgency to address our environmental and social challenges? What ethical concerns do art-makers face who are committed to a deep green agenda? How can we refocus education to emphasize integrative thinking and inspire hope? What role might art play in actualizing environmental resilience? Compiled from 67 members of the Ecoart Network, a group of more than 200 internationally established practitioners, Ecoart in Action stands as a field guide that offers practical solutions to critical environmental challenges. Organized into three sections—Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations—each contribution provides models for ecoart practice that are adaptable for use within a variety of classrooms, communities, and contexts. Educators developing project and place-based learning curricula, citizens, policymakers, scientists, land managers, and those who work with communities (human and other) will find inspiration for integrating art, science, and community-engaged practices into on-the-ground environmental projects. If you share a concern for the environmental crisis and believe art can provide new options, this book is for you!Trade Review"Art is essential to our movements: environmentalists have always been good at appealing to the hemisphere of the human brain that values bar graphs and pie charts, but the message of our peril needs to get across in far more visceral ways as well. And here artists are as important as scientists, as this wonderfully comprehensive account makes clear." -- Bill McKibben, environmentalist and author of The End of Nature"Ecoart in Action is an extensive and invaluable field guide to the ways in which the arts can raise consciousness and instigate action on ecological issues. Transformative projects are carefully laid out by an amazing group of artists and writers whose dedication to the issues goes back decades. Packed with brilliant ideas for a vast number of contexts and participants, this book is crucial to our hopes for a sustainable future." -- Lucy R. Lippard, art critic and author of Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West"Even as California combusts, Greenland’s vaulting ancient ice dome sweats, and seas swell, this Anthropocene period of Earth history, hubristically named by and for our species, is in its earliest formative stages. That’s both good and bad news. The bad news, of course, is that we haven’t seen anything yet. The good news is that humanity and the wider living world won’t see the worst outcomes if we all spread the activities, learn from the case studies and amplify the provocations offered in this vital field guide to ecoart in action." -- Andrew Revkin, journalist, educator, musician, and author of five environmental books, including The Burning Season and The North Pole Was Here
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Island Press A Poison Like No Other
Book Synopsis?Informed, utterly blindsiding account.? - Booklist, starred review It?s falling from the sky and in the air we breathe. It?s in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It?s microplastic and it?s everywhere?including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming. In A Poison Like No Other, Matt Simon reveals a whole new dimension to the plastic crisis, one even more disturbing than plastic bottles washing up on shores and grocery bags dumped in landfills. Dealing with discarded plastic is bad enough, but when it starts to break down, the real trouble begins. The very thing that makes plastic so useful and ubiquitous ? its toughness ? means it never really goes away. It just gets smaller and smaller: eventually small enough to enter your lungs or be absorbed by crops or penetrate a fish?s muscle tissue before it becomes dinner. Unlike other pollutants that are single elements or simple chemical compounds, microplastics represent a cocktail of toxicity: plastics contain at least 10,000 different chemicals. Those chemicals are linked to diseases from diabetes to hormone disruption to cancers. A Poison Like No Other is the first book to fully explore this new dimension of the plastic crisis,following the intrepid scientists who travel to the ends of the earth and the bottom of the ocean to understand the consequences of our dependence on plastic. As Simon learns from these researchers, there is no easy fix. But we will never curb our plastic addiction until we begin to recognize the invisible particles all around us.
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University Press of Florida Wild Capital: Nature's Economic and Ecological
Book SynopsisIn Wild Capital, Barbara Jones demonstrates that looking at nature through the lens of the marketplace is a surprisingly effective approach to protecting the environment. Showing that policy-makers and developers rarely associate wild places with monetary values, Jones argues that nature should be viewed as a capital asset like any other in order for environmental preservation to be a competitive alternative to construction projects.
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NewSouth Publishing Time Bomb: Work, rest and play in Australia today
Book SynopsisRelevant and sharp, this record turns a careful eye to the issue of time poverty, throwing light on poor urban planning, workplace policies, and other sociopolitical issues that rob working families of time. While maximising productivity and enhancing professional skills, Australians must raise their children, care for their elderly, be involved in their communities, and shrink their carbon footprints. This book investigates what it costs Australian families to do it all: how men’s time is taken up by work, crowding out their capacity to care, and how women struggle to strike a balance between professional ambition and household obligations. It also investigates how work impacts the response to the greatest concern of the 21st century—the planet’s sustainability.
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NewSouth Publishing Conservation in a Crowded World: Case studies from the Asia-Pacific
Book SynopsisIn an increasingly crowded world reconciling environmental 'conservation' with the 'sustainable use' of natural resources is now our greatest challenge. Nature conservation has traditionally focused on protecting iconic and important areas of biodiversity from human exploitation through the establishment of National Parks and World Heritage Areas. While this is essential, a narrow focus on protected area conservation risks overlooking local needs in areas where people and natural systems must co-exist. This book addresses some key questions for the sustainable use of natural environments: What should be conserved and who decides? Is 'use' compatible with conservation, and under what circumstances? Are trade-offs between conservation and development necessary? How do we find those elusive 'win-win' solutions? 'This book covers an extraordinary range of issues in a way that is both compelling and readable. Can there be a more important topic?' - Robyn Williams, ABC Science Unit. 'The challenge for all of us now is to let go of old paradigms of conservation and land use that have seen wildlife become increasingly unsafe in the wild and lands degrade, to embrace instead a new order of strategies that will simultaneously optimise conservation, ecosystem services and human well-being. A good place to start would be those whose visions are showcased in this excellent publication.' - Professor Mike Archer, Evolution of Earth & Life Systems Research Group, University of New South Wales.
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Canadian Scholars Teaching in the Anthropocene: Education in the
Book SynopsisThis new critical volume presents various perspectives on teaching and teacher education in the face of the global climate crisis, environmental degradation, and social injustice. Teaching in the Anthropocene calls for a reorientation of the aims of teaching so that we might imagine multiple futures in which children, youths, and families can thrive amid a myriad of challenges related to the earth's decreasing habitability.Referring to the uncertainty of the time in which we live and teach, the term Anthropocene is used to acknowledge anthropogenic contributions to the climate crisis and to consider and reflect on the emotional responses to adverse climate events. The text begins with the editors' discussion of this contested term and then moves on to make the case that we must decentre anthropocentric models in teacher education praxis.The four thematic parts include chapters on the challenges to teacher education practice and praxis, affective dimensions of teaching in the face of the global crisis, relational pedagogies in the Anthropocene, and ways to ignite the empathic imaginations of tomorrow's teachers. Together the authors discuss new theoretical eco-orientations and describe innovative pedagogies that create opportunities for students and teachers to live in greater harmony with the more-than-human world. This incredibly timely volume will be essential to pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators.FEATURES: Offers critical reflections on anthropocentrism from multiple perspectives in education, including continuing education, educational organization, K–12, post-secondary, and more Includes accounts that not only deconstruct the disavowal of the climate crisis in schools but also articulate an ecosophical approach to education Features discussion prompts in each chapter to enhance student engagement with the material Table of Contents Acknowledgements Learning to Teach on the Edge of the Anthropocene Part Ⅰ: Challenges to Teacher Education Practice and PraxisChapter 1: Weaving Critical Education Perspectives in Teaching for Social and Ecological JusticeChapter 2: Schools and Communities: Interdisciplinary Learning and the Ecological Crises of the AnthropoceneChapter 3: Recognizing and Addressing Influential Root Metaphors: The Key to Reorienting Teaching and Teacher Education in the AnthropoceneChapter 4: "Country" Is My Gender, the Good Girl, and Ecojustice EducationChapter 5: Indigegogy: Using Indigenous Ways in TeachingChapter 6: Listening, Witnessing, Connecting: Histories and Storytelling in the Anthropocene Part Ⅱ: The Affective Dimensions of Teaching in the Face of the Earth's Decreasing HabitabilityChapter 7: To Love and to Teach Other People's Children in the Face of the Climate CrisisChapter 8: What Good Is a Poem When the World Is on Fire?Chapter 9: Hope in Action as a Pedagogical Response to Climate Crisis and Youth AnxietyChapter 10: Nurturing Embodied Agency in Response to Climate Anxiety: Exploring Pedagogical Possibilities Part Ⅲ: Relational Pedagogies in the AnthropoceneChapter 11: Embodying Ceremony as Pedagogy: The Role of School Administration in Reconceptualizing Indigenous Education in the AnthropoceneChapter 12: Plantation Logics and STEM Economics: Make Kin as Education for Multispecies' FlourishingChapter 13: Challenging Complacency in K–12 Climate Change Education in Canada: Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives for Designing Curricula beyond Sustainable DevelopmentChapter 14: Of What's Now and What's Next: Poetry, Narrative, and Reimagining Teacher Education(s) beyond Received Anthropocentric ChauvinismChapter 15: Growing Rural Capacity for Responding to the Anthropocentric Exigencies of Our TimeChapter 16: Looking the Gift Horse in the Mouth: Climate Refugees and the Role of Education in Promoting Inclusivity Part Ⅳ: Igniting the Empathic Imaginations of Tomorrow's TeachersChapter 17: Unsettling Climate Education: The Youth Are Waking Up and Walking Out. As Educators, How Do We Join Them?Chapter 18: ENVIROdigiART in the Age of the Anthropocene: A Reorientation of Teaching and Learning in Digital Artistic/Scientific Practices Across the CurriculumChapter 19: Deep Listening by the Sojourners CollectiveChapter 20: Teaching Geography Education in the Anthropocene: Focusing on Settler Colonialism, Slow Violence, and Solidarity Building in New Brunswick through DIY Art ProductionChapter 21: Wasteland Climate Anxiety: Meaningful (Teacher) Education Children's Voices Calling Us to Action at the Edge of the Anthropocene GlossaryAuthor BiographiesIndex
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GMC Publications Earth-Saving Acts for Eco-Warriors
Book SynopsisEarth-Saving Acts for Eco-Warriors is an empowering guide to living more sustainably with practical advice for fighting climate change. The worlds climate is changing, and its affecting the planet. The destruction of natural habitats and the rise in pollution are just some of the issues faced today. If you are someone who cares for nature and is worried about the environment, you might be wondering what you can do to help. Filled with useful information, inspiring articles, and sustainable ideas and projects, this Eco handbook gives you a wide range of ways to make a positive contribution to your community and the wider world. Find out how to make a difference, learn valuable skills, meet like-minded people, and gain experiences to remember. Are you ready to be part of the action rather than watching from the sidelines? You have what it takes to be an eco-warrior! Being an eco-warrior can mean many things: that you care about the environment, love the creatures who share Earth with us, or appreciate nature's gifts. Maybe you want future generations to enjoy our planet's beauty and resources. Whatever your interpretation, this guide will help you live a green lifestyle, make environmentally responsible choices, and encourage others to join in too. Short essays offer advice on how to practice and advocate for sustainable living, with simple tips for enacting small changes that can make a big difference. Learn how to reduce your carbon footprint or switch to a plant-based diet, engage your community by throwing a swap party to save unwanted items from ending up in landfill, and maintain hope by developing strategies to soothe eco-anxiety. If you're looking to take action and spark change, this book gives you the tools to make a difference.
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University of Nevada Press The Powell Expedition: New Discoveries about John
Book SynopsisJohn Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adventures in American history, ranking with the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Apollo landings on the moon. For nearly twenty years Lago has researched the Powell expedition from new angles, traveled to thirteen states, and looked into archives and other sources no one else has searched. He has come up with many important new documents that change and expand our basic understanding of the expedition by looking into Powell's crewmembers, some of whom have been almost entirely ignored by Powell historians. Historians tended to assume that Powell was the whole story and that his crewmembers were irrelevant. More seriously, because several crew members made critical comments about Powell and his leadership, historians who admired Powell were eager to ignore and discredit them.Lago offers a feast of new and important material about the river trip, and it will significantly rewrite the story of Powell's famous expedition. This book is not only a major work on the Powell expedition, but on the history of American exploration of the West.Trade ReviewThe Powell Expedition is a thought-provoking, nuanced work that reads at times like a detective story, and it should offer much fodder for historians."" - The Wall Street Journal""Lago examines many theories about the fate of three members of Powell's expedition who left the river before the end of the journey and were never seen again. While the true fate of these explorers may never be known, there are enough leads in this account to entertain Colorado River rafters around campfires for years. Grand Canyon enthusiasts will find much to consider in this book."" - Library Journal""This is no straightforward river adventure, but rather a collection of multiple intriguing theories about various disputed facts, making for excellent campfire stories after a long day on the river."" - Publisher's Weekly""Lago is a storyteller, and his accessible, sprightly writing style makes what could be a mind-numbing collection of facts read like an adventure yarn."" - New York Journal of Books""Written in a refreshingly transparent first-person style, Lago demythologizes Powell, corrects past libels and properly puts the focus on his crew. This book will be of interest to historians and river rats alike."" - True West Magazine""Lago's latest book is the result of 20 years of research across 13 states, digging into the history of the expedition's individual crew members to tell a far more specific story that the broad tale of river running and canyon mapping."" - Grand Canyon News""Conjecture - (readily admitted) and tangential - wanderings pervade the text, resting comfortably alongside nuggets of deep research that rewrite important aspects of Powell's story and offer insight on Western exploration."" - Roundup Magazine""Don Lago's The Powell Expedition: New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell's 1869 River Journeytakes a new, fresh look at the 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers led by John Wesley Powell. He concentrates especially on the often-overlooked members of the crew, and the events that led to distrust, tension, and the eventual departure of three members of the party, as well as an in-depth look at the deaths of those three and the subsequent lives of most, if not all, of the men. The book is definitely a significant and novel contribution to the literature on Powell, and that's saying something. The sources Lago consulted are astounding, in a word."" - Roy Webb""Don Lago has spent over 20 years researching Powell's 1869 river expedition, ferreting out details nobody else has discovered, myth-busting, speculating, and clarifying the whys and wherefores of the trip. This book is a culmination of those details and speculation, with updates on his previous writings and adding a wealth of new material. Lago covers topics no other Powell biographer/author has addressed, or ones in this depth."" - Richard Quartaroli""In search of answers and explanations, he delves into details of chronologies, genealogies, and politics, but he keeps the stories alive by following out speculations and connections along unexpected trails of evidence... Offering many intriguing new ideas and directions for further research, Lago's The Powell Expedition will be of great interest to scholars of Powell's survey. For anyone with an interest in Colorado River history, Lago's book will be enjoyable reading."" - The Western Historical Quarterly
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Experimenting on a Small Planet: A History of
Book SynopsisThis book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate. Bill Hay takes you on a journey to understand how the climate system works. He explores how humans are unintentionally conducting a grand uncontrolled experiment which is leading to unanticipated changes. We follow the twisting path of seemingly unrelated discoveries in physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and even mathematics to learn how they led to our present knowledge of how our planet works. He explains why the weather is becoming increasingly chaotic as our planet warms at a rate far faster than at any time in its geologic past. He speculates on possible future outcomes, and suggests that nature itself may make some unexpected course corrections. Although the book is written for the layman with little knowledge of science or mathematics, it includes information from many diverse fields to provide even those actively working in the field of climatology with a broader view of this developing drama. Experimenting on a Small Planet is a must read for anyone having more than a casual interest in global warming and climate change - one of the most important and challenging issues of our time. This new edition includes actual data from climate science into 2021. Numerous Powerpoint slides can be downloaded to allow lecturers and teachers to more effectively use the book as a basis for climate change education.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Discovering Climate.- Chapter 3. The Language of Science.- Chapter 4. Applying Mathematics to Problems.- Chapter 5. Geologic Time.- Chapter 6. Putting Numbers on Geologic Ages.- Chapter 7. Documenting Past Climate Change.- Chapter 8. The Nature of Energy Received From the Sun – The Analogies with Water Waves and Sound.- Chapter 9. The Nature of Energy Received From the Sun---Figuring Out What Light Really Is.- Chapter 10. Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum.- Chapter 11. The Origins of Climate Science---The Idea Of Energy Balance.- Chapter 12. The Climate System.- Chapter 13. What’s At The Bottom of Alice’s Rabbit Hole.- Chapter 14. Energy from the Sun---Long-Term Variations.- Chapter 15. Solar Variability and Cosmic Rays.- Chapter 16. Albedo.- Chapter 17. Air.- Chapter 18. HOH---The Keystone Of Earth’s Climate.- Chapter 19. The Atmosphere.- Chapter 20. Oxygen and Ozone---Products and Protectors of Life.- Chapter 21. Water Vapor---The Major Greenhouse Gas.- Chapter 22. Carbon Dioxide.- Chapter 23. Other Greenhouse Gases.- Chapter 24. The Earth Is a Sphere and Rotates.- Chapter 25. The Coriolis Effect.- Chapter 26. The Circulation of Earth’s Atmosphere.- Chapter 27. The Circulation of Earth’s Oceans.- Chapter 28. The Biological Interactions.- Chapter 29. Sea Level.- Chapter 30. Global Climate Change---The Geologically Immediate Past.- Chapter 31. Human Impacts on the Environment and Climate.- Chapter 32. Predictions of the Future of Humanity.- Chapter 33. Is there an Analog for the Future Climate.- Chapter 34. The Instrumental Temperature Record.- Chapter 35. The Changing Climate of the Polar Regions.- Chapter 36. Global, Regional and Local Effects of Our Changing Climate.- Chapter 37. Final Thoughts.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Introduction to Python in Earth Science Data
Book SynopsisThis textbook introduces the use of Python programming for exploring and modelling data in the field of Earth Sciences. It drives the reader from his very first steps with Python, like setting up the environment and starting writing the first lines of codes, to proficient use in visualizing, analyzing, and modelling data in the field of Earth Science. Each chapter contains explicative examples of code, and each script is commented in detail. The book is minded for very beginners in Python programming, and it can be used in teaching courses at master or PhD levels. Also, Early careers and experienced researchers who would like to start learning Python programming for the solution of geological problems will benefit the reading of the book.Table of ContentsPart I Python for Geologists, a kick-off; 1. Setting Up Your Python Environment, Easily; 2. Python Essentials for a Geologist; 3. Start Solving Geological Problems Using Python; Part II Describing Geological Data; 4. Graphical Visualization of a Geological Dataset; 5. Descriptive Statistics; Part III Integrals and Differential Equations in Geology; 6. Numerical Integration; 7. Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE); 8. Partial Differential Equations (PDE); Part IV Probability Density Functions and Error Analysis; 9. Probability Density Functions and their Use in Geology; 10. Error Analysis; Part V Robust Statistics and Machine Learning; 11. Introduction to Robust Statistics; 12. Machine Learning;
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Secret Life of Chemicals
Book SynopsisThis book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health. The author is a medical scientist, with training in the law. The book documents current understanding about pesticides in food, the plastics revolution, toxic metals, air, water and electronic waste pollutants, chemical exposure in the workplace, radiation pollutants, chemical exposure and hearing loss, how our bodies deal with chemicals, genetic variability and the risk of disease, the effect of chemicals on genes, mitochondria and the immune system and what we can do about it all. Industrialisation has resulted in many thousands of chemicals, which are being continuously developed and often escaping from where they are used into our human environment, without us really knowing enough about them. In high dosages or with continuous small dosage, the evidence suggests, that many of them could interfere with human health and some of them are known to be doing so. But for the vast majority, we are left wondering whether some could be responsible for some diseases the causes of which are inadequately understood. Every chapter is thoroughly reinforced with several pages of references from the peer-reviewed literature.Table of ContentsPreface: Julian Cribb, FRSA FTSE Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2: Pesticides in our food Chapter 3. The plastics revolution Chapter 4. Toxic metals Chapter 5. The Indestructibles Chapter 6. Air pollutants Chapter 7. Chemicals from paper manufacture and use Chapter 8. Chemical exposure in the workplace Chapter 9. Fluorocarbons Chapter 10: Radiation Chapter 11. How do our bodies deal with chemicals? Chapter 12: Genetic variability and the risk of disease – the advantages and disadvantages of being different Chapter 13. Environmental chemicals and our genes Chapter 14. Environmental chemicals and mitochondria Chapter 15. Environmental chemicals and our immune system Chapter 16: Just because the amounts are small, does it mean they are safe? Chapter 17. What can we do for a better future?
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