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Cambridge University Press Environment and Society in Soviet Estonia 19601990
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EcologyPress Philosophy for a Time of Crisis
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Wild
Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary work, philosophers from different specialisms connect with the notion of the wild today and interrogate how it is mediated through the culture of the Anthropocene. They make use of empirical material like specific artworks, films and other cultural works related to the term wild' to consider the aesthetic experience of nature, focusing on the untamed, the boundless, the unwieldy, or the unpredictable; in other words, aspects of nature that are mediated by culture. This book maps out the wide range of ways in which we experience the wildness of nature aesthetically, relating both to immediate experience as well as to experience mediated through cultural expression. A variety of subjects are relevant in this context, including aesthetics, art history, theology, human geography, film studies, and architecture. A theme that is pursued throughout the book is the wild in connection with ecology and its experience of nature as both a constructive and destructive forcTrade ReviewThis engaging collection is an indispensable and delightful introduction to a topic as relevant as ever. Understanding how “wild" has been conceptualized will help us understand the contemporary human condition better, especially its deep entanglements with the more-than-human world. * Sanna Lehtinen, Research Fellow, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Finland *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Solveig Bøe, Hege Charlotte Faber and Eivind Kasa (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) 1. Environmental Aesthetics and Rewilding, Jonathan Prior (Cardiff University, UK) and Emily Brady (University of Edinburgh, UK) 2. “Wild Thing” – The Aesthetic Prospects of Wildness, Arto Haapala (University of Helsinki, Finland) 3. A Shelter in the Wilderness, Eivind Kasa (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) 4. Of Wolves and Walls: Architecture and the Wild, Andrew Ballantyne (Newcastle University, UK) 5. Wild Being. On Human Animality, Solveig Bøe (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) 6. Into the Wild: Aesthetics of the Monstrous, Brit Strandhagen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) 7. Compulsions of Wildness: On Grieg's Trolls in Lang's M, Magnar Breivik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) 8. The Kalevala and Finnish Rune Songs – Wild Impressions in the Music of Sibelius, Reidar Bakke (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) 9. Dangerous and Endangered Nature. Art as a Way of Seeing, Hege Charlotte Faber (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) 10. Wild Weather – Modes of Being at the Mercy, Sigurd Bergmann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) 11. Watery Wilds: Pond Swimming and Protest on Hampstead Heath, Jessica J. Lee (Independent Scholar, Germany) 12. The Fallow Land. A Farewell, Jan Brockmann (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa
Book SynopsisNeil J.W. Crawford is a Lecturer in International Politics and Public Policy at the University of Stirling, UK.Susan Nanduddu is the Executive Director of the African Centre for Trade and Development, Uganda.Katie McQuaid is an Associate Professor of Gender and Climate at the University of Leeds, UK.Elvin Nyukuri is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Governance and Policy at the University of Nairobi, Kenya.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Environmental Equity in China and Beyond
Book SynopsisMichael Nylan is Professor of the Early History of China at the University of California in Berkeley, USA. She is one of the world's most prolific specialists of research into the early Chinese dynasties. Her books include the classic The Five Confucian' Classics (2001), China's Early Empires (2010 with Michael Loewe) and more recently The Chinese Pleasure Book (2018) as well as the translation of Sunzi's The Art of War (2022). Nylan edits the ongoing series Classics of Chinese Thought.Thomas Hahn is a sinologist and cultural geographer, based in the US. Retired from Cornell and from occasional teaching at the University of California in Berkeley, he has over 40 years of fieldwork experience in China. His publications reflect research on Chinese gazetteers, the Grand Canal as a UNESCO World heritage Site; and religious communities, especially those based in China's rural and mountainous areas.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Peoples History of Environmentalism in the United States
Book SynopsisChad Montrie isProfessor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His most recent book is Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States (2008)Trade ReviewChad Montrie puts people back into nature in this compelling and powerfully argued portrait of the class dimensions of U.S. environmental history. Essential reading for all those interested in a bottom-up view of the environmental movement -- Karl Jacoby, Brown UniversityAn engaging, critical synthesis of 20 years of new scholarship in environmental and labor history, A People's History of Environmentalism tells a new story of the emergence and power of environmentalism as a movement forged by common people in defense of their lives and livelihoods. Countering previous arguments that environmentalism began in post-World War II middle-class suburbs, Montrie redefines environmentalism as a grass-roots, working class response to industrialization and urbanization dating from the early 19th century. From the start, this movement included workers' resistance to elite attempts to control nature both for profit and for upper-class leisure. Montrie narrates the growth of working-class environmentalism and its successes and failures from the textile mills of New England, to the Chicago streets around Hull House, to automobile plants of Michigan, to the coal mines of Appalachia, and to the agricultural fields of California, with other stops along the way. This detailed but accessible book offers a forceful new interpretation of American environmentalism and rewrites the narrative of the modern environmental movement to include the crucial role of working class men and women in the fight for a healthy environment -- Kathryn Morse, Middlebury CollegeChad Montrie's masterful book rightfully returns working peoples to the center of the story of American environmentalism. Deftly moving between time and place, Montrie's social and environmental history balances fascinating narratives with a broad overview of how the stories of millworkers, hunters, New Deal laborers, union activists, and farmworkers are intimately connected. A must-read for anyone interested in the roots of contemporary environmentalism -- Julie Sze, University of California at DavisTable of ContentsIntroduction - Shaking up what, when and why; 1. Puritan to Yankee redux: farming, fishing and our very own dark, satanic mills; 2. Why game wardens carry guns and interpretive rangers dress like soldiers: class conflict in forests and parks; 3. Missionaries find the urban jungle: sanitation and worker health and safety; 4. Green relief and recovery: by which working people and nature get a New Deal; 5. A popular crusade: organized labor takes the lead against pollution; 6. From 'no uvas' to 'no pcbs': inventing environmental justice; Conclusion - Rethinking environmentalism, past and present.
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Les Veines qui Tuent Ondes nocives souterraines
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory
Book SynopsisDisciplines from literary studies to environmentalism have recently undergone a spectacular reorientation that has refocused entire fields, methodologies, and vocabularies on the world and its sister terms such as globe, planet, and earth. The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory examines what world means and what it accomplishes in different zones of academic study. The contributors raise questions such as: What happens when world is appended to a particular form of humanistic or scientific inquiry? How exactly does worlding bear on the theoretical operating system and the history of that field? What is the theory or theoretical model that allows world to function in a meaningful way in coordination with that knowledge domain? With contributions from 38 leading theorists from a vast range of fields, including queer studies, religion, and pop culture, this is the first large reference work to consider the profound effect, both within and outside the academy, of the worldinTrade ReviewUndoubtedly, this Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory is the most unusual English-language handbook I have encountered this year: original, inspiring, thought-provoking, and diversified. Because of its interdisciplinary — and even transdisciplinary — scope, the Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory is indispensable for research libraries and would serve as an eye-opener for open-minded scholars in an infinity of domains. It reaffirms the pertinence (or the urgency?) of doing theory in a globalized world. Reading this Handbook from one cover to another can be a rewarding experience, no matter in which academic filed you locate yourself. These contributors want to bring the reader beyond. * UCLA Electronic Green Journal *Written in conscious opposition to the priorities sustained by neoliberal globalism, the essays in The Bloomsbury Handbook of World Theory envision how a 'worlding' of academic fields as well as other discourses and professions can truly democratize and decolonize the domains of work, the arts, and education throughout the planet. These essays propose models rooted in both interdisciplinarity and individuality that can effectively resist the homogenization and top-down models universally dominant since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. * John Pizer, Professor of German, Louisiana State University, USA, and author of The Idea of World Literature: History and Pedagogical Practice *By now, the world has been approached from almost every angle. As long as one is not satisfied with easy universalism, this goal is already difficult to achieve at a discipline level. Yet, Di Leo, Moraru and their many contributors go far beyond that. They end up interweaving all of the specific readings to help us better understand what is really meant by worlding. The effort is immense; the result is extraordinary. * Bertrand Westphal, Professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, Université de Limoges, France, and author of The Plausible World *No better proof can be imagined that theory is alive and well than this visionary collection, which takes on the mystery of how thinking has changed, and will have to change further, in response to the challenge of the world scale. It treats what “the world” means not only to an extraordinary range of disciplines, ranging from the humanities to the natural sciences, but also in the professions and, perhaps most important, in zones of concern like sexuality and visual culture that are still seeking their optimum academic organization. The word “inter-disciplinary” is grossly inadequate to describe the intellectual ambition of this volume. Massive as it is, it is still more ambitious than its size indicates. The only thing standing in the way of calling it a landmark is its irresistible freshness. * Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, USA, and author of The Beneficiary *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA) Notes on Contributors Introduction: World Theory in the New Millennium Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) and Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA) Part 1: Arts and Humanities 1. Worlding History Fabio López-Lázaro (University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA) 2. Worlding Philosophy Brian O’Keeffe (Barnard College, USA) 3. Worlding Ethics Nigel Dower (University of Aberdeen, UK) 4. Worlding Art Nikos Papastergiadis (University of Melbourne, Australia) 5. Worlding Postmodernism Hans Bertens (Utrecht University, Netherlands) 6. Worlding Comparative Literature Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA) 7. Worlding Popular Culture Esther Peeren (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 8. Worlding Music John Mowitt (University of Leeds, UK) 9. Worlding Cinema Alex Taek-Gwang Lee (Kyung Hee University, Korea) 10. Worlding Theater Gina MacKenzie (Holy Family University, USA) 11. Worlding Religion Gerda Heck (American University of Cairo, Egypt) and Stephan Lanz (Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany) Part 2: Social and Behavioral Sciences 12. Worlding Sociology Veronika Wittmann (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) 13. Worlding Anthropology Nigel Rapport (University of St. Andrews, UK) 14. Worlding Economics Peter Hitchcock (City University of New York, USA) 15. Worlding Psychoanalysis Dany Nobus (Brunel University, UK) 16. Worlding Women Robin Goodman (Florida State University, USA) 17. Worlding Gender Vrushali Patil (Florida International University, USA) 18. Worlding Queer Sri Craven (Portland State University, USA) 19. Worlding Identity Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA) Part 3: The Professions 20. Worlding Higher Education Michael Thomas (Liverpool John Moore University, UK) 21. Worlding Public Policy Kenneth J. Saltman (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA) 22. Worlding International Education Lien Pham (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 23. Worlding International Relations Sophia McClennen (Penn State University, USA) 24. Worlding Media Studies Toby Miller (Loughborough University London, UK) and Jesús Arroyave (Universidad del Norte, Colombia) 25. Worlding Journalism Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova (University of Liverpool, UK) 26. Worlding Publishing Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA) 27. Worlding Architecture Richard Ingersoll (Politecnico de Milano, Italy) Part 4: Natural and Formal Sciences 28. Worlding Logic Paul Livingston (University of New Mexico, USA) 29. Worlding Spatiality Studies Robert T. Tally Jr. (Texas State University, USA) 30. Worlding Cybernetics Andrew Culp (California Institute for the Arts, USA) 31. Worlding Systems Theory Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech University, USA) 32. Worlding Biology Adam Nocek (Arizona State University, USA) 33. Worlding Environmental Studies Robert P. Marzec (Purdue University, USA) 34. Worlding Earth and Climate Studies Claire Colebrook (Penn State University, USA) Index
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Sanacion de los chakras y conciencia del karma
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science
Book SynopsisA socialist response to the looming ecological crisisAs the Anthropocene advances, people across the red-green political spectrum seek to understand and halt our deepening ecological crisis. Environmentalists, scientists, and eco-socialists share concerns about the misuse and overuse of natural resources, but often differ on explanations and solutions. Some blame environmental disasters on overpopulation. Others wonder if Darwin s evolutionary theories disprove Marx s revolutionary views, or if capitalist history contradicts Anthropocene science. Some ask if all this worry about climate change and the ecosystem might lead to a catastrophism that weakens efforts to heal the planet.Ian Angus responds to these concerns inA Redder Shade of Green, with a fresh, insightful clarity, bringing socialist values to science, and scientific rigor to socialism. He challenges not only mainstream green thought, but also radicals who misuse or misrepresent environmental science. Angus s argument that confronting environmental destruction requires both cutting-edge scientific research and a Marxist understanding of capitalism makes this book an essential resource in the fight to prevent environmental destruction in the 21st century."
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Gratifying Transitions
Book SynopsisSøren Harnow Klausen is professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Denmark.
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Bloomsbury Academic Storying Plant Communication
Book SynopsisMariko Oyama Thomas is Interdisciplinary Scholar and Teaching Faculty at Skagit Valley College, USA. She holds a PhD in Environmental Communication from the University of New Mexico and is also Co-Founder of the arts and ecology collaborative Submergence Collective.Melissa M. Parks is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and the Environmental Humanities Program at the University of Utah and Associate Director of the Taft-Nicholson Center for Environmental Humanities Education in Centennial Valley, Montana, USA.
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Bloomsbury Academic Environmental Communication and the Wild
Book SynopsisPhilip D. Duncan is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Eureka College. Derek Moscato is Professor of Journalism at Western Washington University.
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Academica Press Ecofeminism and Indian Women Writing in English
Book SynopsisThe theory and praxis of ecofeminism has barely been investigated in an Indian context.Ecofeminism is an inclusive theory and provides an intersectional study of feminism, ecocriticism, and literature. Ecofeminism and Indian Women Writing in English unearths the sensibility of Indian women writings through the lens of ecofeminism. This book gives all the required details about ecofeminism, major movements and ecofeminist theories, in both the Indian as well as Western perspectives. It will help the readers understand the discourse of ecofeminism. The reader will get a thorough understanding on how to critically examine an ecofeminist element in a particular text. The book's main objective is to re(store) the cultural heritage of India against its colonial history that had mis(interpreted) the environmental ethics of Indian philosophy, affinity of women with nature and animals. The so-called developmental models of post-modern era will be beneficial only when they will focus on mutual sustainability of man and nature.
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Academica Press Hemingway and Ecocriticism
Book SynopsisHemingway and Ecocriticism focuses on the famous author's short stories from ecocritical perspectives, which are concerned with the relationship between humans and the landscape and plead for a better understanding of nature. Of Hemingway's first 49 short stories, 22 exhibit ecological concerns in some form or other. They reveal great damage caused to nature and human beings alike. G. Srilatha holds that while Hemingway was an unabashed hunter, fisher, and sportsman, he was also a conservationist and conveyed this attitude in most of his stories. Many show that human and biological environments are mutually interdependent. Despite ecological devastation, Hemingway's protagonists turn to nature to escape from the trauma of war and to seek solace.
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Warcry Communications The Militant Vegan: The Book - Complete Collection, 1993-1995: (Animal Liberation Zine Collection)
Book SynopsisTogether in one professionally-bound book, for the first time.The Militant Vegan was a low-production-value, limited-circulation, photocopied publication that ran from 1993 to 1995, and never enjoyed a wide audience. This is the complete collection of the animal liberation zine covering direct action, animal rights activism, and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF).To understand The Militant Vegan is to understand the historical context from which it arose: By 1993, the Animal Liberation Front had carried out its most strategic campaign to date, targeting weak points in the fur industry in a multi-state liberation and arson spree called Operation Bite Back. The media was all but silent. There was no internet, so activists outside the small media markets where these raids happened were unaware this campaign was underway, and many of the raids weren’t reported by the media at all. The Animal Liberation Front (again, pre-internet) had little-to-no platforms to which they could disseminate their communiques, rally the movement to join them in taking action, or let the world know of their victories.It was from this void The Militant Vegan emerged. To quote issue #1, “The Militant Vegan is being released because there has been a media blackout on direct action on behalf of enslaved animals.”Before the internet, animal liberation news could only be spread through photocopied documents like The Militant Vegan, distributed person-to-person, and seen by few.While dominated by re-purposed material (such as ALF primers and newspaper clippings), there is also notable content, ALF history, and other direct-action themed rarities contained in these pages. Some of it never to be found elsewhere.The Militant Vegan published some of the first publicized fur farm addresses - several of which would go on to be raided by activists. A communiqué for the Malecky Mink Farm arson (also part of Operation Bite Back) is a rare piece of ALF history. And even the grainy newspaper article reprints can’t be downplayed, in a time when to not live in an area where an ALF action had occurred was to never know it happened at all - were it not for The Militant Vegan.In the mid-1990s, reading The Militant Vegan was like a window to a secret history you watched unfold in its pages.
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Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development Eco Bible: Volume 1: An Ecological Commentary on Genesis and Exodus
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press On Active Grounds: Agency and Time in the Environmental Humanities
Book SynopsisOn Active Grounds considers the themes of agency and time through the burgeoning, interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. Fourteen essays and a photo album cover topics such as environmental practices and history, temporal literacy, graphic novels, ecocinema, ecomusicology, animal studies, Indigeneity, wolf reintroduction, environmental history, green conservatism, and social-ecological systems change. The book also speaks to the growing concern regarding environmental issues in the aftermath of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) and the election of Donald Trump in the United States. This collection is organized as a written and visual appeal to issues such as time (how much is left?) and agency (who is active? what can be done? what does and does not work?). It describes problems and suggests solutions. On Active Grounds is unique in its explicit and twinned emphasis on time and agency in the context of the Environmental Humanities and a requisite interdisciplinarity.Trade Review"On Active Grounds: Agency and Time in the Environmental Humanities" is a timely, thought-provoking, and seminal work of scholarship that is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library collections. -- Michael J. Carson -- Midwest Book Review, 20190601Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Images Acknowledgements Introduction: Ecocritical Agency in Time | Mario Trono and Robert Boschman I. Eco-Temporal Literacies 1 "The clock's wound up": Critical Reading Practices in the Time of Social Acceleration and Ecological Collapse | Paul Huebener 2 A Better Distribution Deal: Ecocinematic Viewing and Montagist Reply | Mario Trono 3 Allô, ici la terre: Agency in Ecological Music Composition, Performance, and Listening | Sabine Feisst 4 The Environmental Vampire: Terror, Time, and Territory after 9/11 | Robert Boschman II. Timelines and Indigeneity 5 "We are key players...": Creating Indigenous Engagement and Community Control at Blackfoot Heritage Sites in Time | Geneviève Susemihl 6 Mapping the Mining Legacy of Navajo Nation | Lea Rekow Photo Essay Agency and Time on Active Grounds: A Memoir of Bruno Latour and Gaïa Global Circus | Robert Boschman III. Animal Agents and Human-Nonhuman Interactions 7 The Gaze of Predators, Fleshly Worlds, and the Redefinition of the Human | Karla Armbruster 8 Anim-oils: Wild Animals in Petro-Cultural Landscapes | Pamela Banting 9 Reacting to Wolves: The Historical Construction of Identity and Value | Morgan Zedalis and Sean Gould IV. Systems Change in Time 10 Declarations of Interdependence: Unexpected Human-Animal Conflict and Bhutanese Nonlinear Policy | Randy Schroeder and Kent Schroeder 11 Effective Environmental Action in Canada: The German Energiewende as a Model of Public Agency | Mishka Lysack 12 Culture as Vector: (Re)Locating Agency in Social-Ecological Systems Change | Nancy Doubleday Contributors Karla Armbruster, Webster University, Louis, MO Pamela Banting, University of Calgary, AB Robert Boschman, Mount Royal University in Calgary, AB Nancy C. Doubleday, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Sabine Feisst, Arizona State University Sean Gould, Idaho Paul Huebener, Athabasca University, AB Mishka Lysack, University of Calgary, AB Lea Rekow, Green My Favela, Rio de Janeiro Kent Schroeder, Humber College, Toronto, ON Randy Schroeder, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB Geneviève Susemihl, University of Kiel, Germany Mario Trono, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB Morgan Zedalis, McCall, Idaho
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Posthuman International Relations: Complexity, Ecologism and Global Politics
Book SynopsisIn this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in thinking about complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the study of international relations. As a discipline, IR is wedded to the enlightenment project of overcoming the 'hazards' of nature, and thus remains constrained by its blinkered 'human-centred' approach. Furthermore, as a means of predicting major global-political events and trends, it has failed consistently. Instead, the authors argue, it is essential we develop a much more nuanced and sophisticated analysis of global political systems, taking into account broader environmental circumstances, as well as social relations, economic practices and formations of political power. Essentially, the book reveals how the study of international politics is transformed by the understanding that we have never been exclusively human. An original work that is sure to provoke heated debate within the discipline, Posthuman International Relations combines insights from complexity theory and ecological thinking to provide a radical new agenda for a progressive, twenty-first century, International Relations.Trade ReviewMaterialism is making a long overdue comeback in International Relations. This impressive volume will make an important contribution to that. Drawing on developments within complexity theory Cudworth and Hobden have done IR a valuable service in resituating the human in its overdetermined complex socio-material environment. This book will surely be at the forefront of a new materialism in IR. * Colin Wight, Professor, Government and International Relations, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney *This book undertakes an ambitious (yet, peaceful) revolt against the anthropocentric paradigms of IR. Bringing together complexity thinking and posthumanist philosophy, Cudworth and Hobden make a radical assault on the common wisdoms of the study of world politics. They do not merely rethink IR, they reinvent it. This reinvention is complete in the sense that it not only profoundly disrupts the dominant anthropocentric narratives, but also offers new tools for grasping the complex connections and linkages in the international system. Indeed, if IR is to offer any viable responses to current global problems, it needs to realise that humans are 'of', not just 'on', Planet Earth. In this exceptional book, Cudworth and Hobden show how this can be done. * Emilian Kavalski, University of Western Sydney *This is an exceptionally useful dissection of the interplays between complexity, the 'environment' and international politics. Scholars and practitioners in many disciplines/areas will find this illuminating and trenchant. * John Urry, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University *Table of Contents1. Introducing Complexity and Posthumanism to International Politics 2. Complexity Theory in the Study of the Social World 3. Complex International Systems 4. Emergent Features in International Systems 5. Complex Ecologism 6. The Politics of Posthumanism 7. For a Posthuman International Relations Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Human Rights and the Environment: Conflicts and
Book SynopsisThe impact of environmental damage on human rights - civil, political or welfare and labour rights - is becoming ever-more widely appreciated and has direct bearing on the behaviour of companies and their norms of conduct. In this volume, contributors draw on the tools and insights of a range of disciplines, including law, anthropology, economics, geography and social science, to analyze the issues and show how new standards that protect rights and liberties can be established.Trade Review'A timely text... A well constructed and composed contribution to the negative forces present in the environmental / ethical debate.' Progress in Development Studies 'This is a well constructed and composed contribution to the negative forces present in the environmental/ethical debate...provides a useful contribution to the debate about environment...this is a useful volume, and I would welcome it on my bookshelf.' Alexander Lynch , Progress in Development Studies.Table of ContentsPreface * Introduction: Conflicts, Ethics and Globalization * Part I: Integrating Human Rights and Environmental Ethics � The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in International Law * Global Reach: Human Rights and Environment in the Framework of Corporate Accountability * Part II: Conflicts Over Mineral and Oil Development - Mining in Suriname: Multinationals, the State and the Maroon Community of Nieuw Koffiekamp * Environment, Human Rights and Mining Conflicts in Ghana * Conflicts Over Transnational Oil and Gas Development off Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East: A David and Goliath Tale * Part III: Conflicts Over Development Strategies - Environmental and Human Rights Impacts of Trade Liberalization: A Case Study in Batam Island, Indonesia * Global Norms, Local compliance and the Human Rights-Environment Nexus: A Case Study of the Nam Theun II Dam In Laos * The Darien Region Between Colombia and Panama: Gap or Seal * Environment, Development and Human rights in China: A Case Study of Foreign Waste Dumping * Part IV: Conflicts Over Land Rights in China: A Case Study of Foreign Waste Dumping * Part IV: Conflicts Over Land Rights - Environment and Land in Bushbuckridge, South Africa * Ecological Roots of Conflict in Eastern and Central Africa: Towards a Regional Ombudsman * Part V: Conclusion - Promoting Environmental Human Rights Through Innovations in Mediation * Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From Me to We: The Five Transformational Commitments Required to Rescue the Planet, Your Organization, and Your Life
Book SynopsisIn From Me to We: The Five Transformational Commitments Required to Rescue the Planet, Your Organization, and Your Life, systems change expert Bob Doppelt reveals that most people today live a dream world, controlled by false perceptions and beliefs. The most deeply held illusion is that all organisms on Earth, including each of us, exist as independent entities. At the most fundamental level, the change needed to overcome our misperceptions is a shift from focusing only on "me" – our personal needs and wants – to also prioritizing the broader "we": the many ecological and social relationships each of us are part of, those that make life possible and worthwhile. Research shows that by using the techniques described in this book this shift is possible – and not that difficult to achieve. From Me to We offers five transformational "commitments" that can help you change your perspective and engage in activities that will help resolve today's environmental and social problems. Not coincidentally, making these commitments can improve the quality of your life as well. Bob Doppelt's latest book is a wake-up call to the creed of individualism. He calls for recognition of the laws of interdependence, cause and effect, moral justice, trusteeship, and free will. The book will be essential to all of those interested in how we can create and stimulate a sea change in how to enable the necessary behavioral change we need to deal with the myriad environmental and social pressures consuming the planet.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. "Me" to "We" throughout history2. The first commitment: See the systems you are part of3. The second commitment: Be accountable for all the consequences of your actions4. The third commitment: Abide by society's most deeply held universal principles of morality and justice5. The fourth commitment: Acknowledge your trustee obligations and take responsibility for the continuation of all life6. The fifth commitment: Choose your own destiny7. Conclusion: It is up to you
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Cranmore Publications What Does it Mean to be 'Green'?: Sustainability, Respect & Spirituality
Book SynopsisMost people believe that they know what it means to be ''green''. But do they? This book explores what it means to live a ''green'' life for an individual human, and what it means for the human species to be a ''green'' species. The conclusion is a provocative one - that at the level of an individual human being ''green'' is about the possession of a particular attitude to life and the universe, whilst at the level of the human species being ''green'' is about the sustainability of the biosphere. This may sound like an obvious conclusion to reach, but it entails that high levels of human resource use and the development of increasingly complex human technologies are ''green'' actions which are necessary for sustainability. So, if you believe that being ''green'' is about minimising human impacts/minimising human resource use then prepare to have your beliefs challenged.
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Galileo Publishers The Lost Words
Book SynopsisThe game is won by placing your Spell cards over your beautifullyillustrated Nature cards before your opponent.Yourquest will be blocked by special action cards that whip completed sets awayfrom you and allow you to sneak cards from your opponent's hand!
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Sul Books Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush
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Prime Seven Media A Sustainable Future
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WWW.Ebookesoterique.com La Radiesthesie Sensorielle: Explication scientifique de Radiesthesie Sensorielle
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The Poetry Lighthouse Only one Earth
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Springer The Third Law of Evolution and The Future of Life
Book SynopsisPart I INTRODUCING DUAL CLOSURE AND THE OPERATOR THEORY.- Chapter 1 Three dimensions for levels of organisation.- Chapter 2 The theorem of dual closure and how it leads to the operator hierarchy.- Chapter 3 Dual closures that cause physical operators.- Chapter 4 Dual closures that cause biological operators.- Chapter 5 Periodicity in the operator hierarchy.- Chapter 6 Elementary particles as the basis for the operator hierarchy.- Chapter 7 A top-level systemic naming of the organisation of nature.- Chapter 8 Renovating theory about levels of organisation.- Chapter 9 O-theory in the context of scientific activity.- Part II EVOLUTION EXTENDED.- Chapter 10 Defining the organism.- Chapter 11 Evolution and the emergence of complex organisms.- Chapter 12 Can the pattern of evolution be applied to non-biological things?.- Chapter 13 Predicting biological evolution.- Chapter 14 The most probable next step in the operator hierarchy.- Chapter 15 Predicting operators of the far future.- Chapter 16 Theoretical development of the term evolution.- Part III SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL APPLICATIONS.- Chapter 17 A new approach to defining life.- Chapter 18 A fresh look at major evolutionary transitions.- Chapter 19 The fractal structure of knowledge.- Chapter 20 The time ribbon of the operator hierarchy.- Chapter 21 Thermodynamics and evolution.- Afterword.- Bios.- Publications about the O-theory.- Glossary inspired by the OT.- Index.- References.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Call of the EcoWeird in Fiction Films and Games
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Fungal Fictions: New Weird Materialism and Mycelial Biohorror.- Chapter 3: Departing the Place Once Familiar: Lovecraft's Eco-Weird Thought.- Chapter 4: The Weird as Crisis Genre: Tipping Points, Ontological Reorientation, and the Desert Tide in Algernon Blackwood's Sand (1912).- Chapter 5: Weird Ecology and the Deconstruction of the Globe.- Chapter 6: Hermeneutics and the Eco-Weird.- Chapter 7: (Eco)-Weirding Folk Horror in Alex Garland's Men.- Chapter 8: Staying with the Weird: Apophatic Wonder and Cosmographic Exploration in Eco-Weird Games.- Chapter 9: Tabletop Eco-Weird: Gameplay Experience and Ecological Ethics.- Chapter 10: Forms and Themes of the Eco-Weird: Experimentation and Play in a Warming World.
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Palgrave Macmillan Our Inevitable Third Spinoza Controversy
Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. The Spinoza Controversy: Jacobi’s claims about the irredeemable price of romanticism and their neglected significance for environmental questions.- 3. The Spinoza Controversy Redux: Inter-war Germany’s self-consciously “religious” thinking about nature and the dispute over its boundaries.- 4. Interlude, I: The rise of modern physics and cosmology out of the same inter-war culture.- 5. Interlude, II: The post-War global destruction of the living world by humans and the use of the sciences to try to convey the resulting crisis and need for change.- 6. A Spinoza Controversy for our Time: Ecological nihilism, the limits of science, and the contemporary void of experience without meaning.- 7. Conclusion.
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Springer VS Alles ist Ökologie
Book SynopsisVorwort.- Zufall und Determinismus.- Abiotik, Biotik und Ressource.- Ist die Natur gut oder böse?.- Global Change.- Die Tragödie der Allmende und warum es keinen echten Altruismus geben kann.- Populationen und Demographie, Rente, Jobs, Migration, Asyl, Wachstum.- r und K Strategen und Störung – alles ist Lobbyismus – selbst der Wunsch nach Sicherheit und Frieden.– Kin selection – Sind wir alle Rassisten? Die dunkle Seite der Kooperation.- Abschluss und Ausblick.
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Brill Teaching Environmental Ethics
Book SynopsisThis collection explores a wide variety of questions, both of a theoretical and a practical nature, raised by teaching environmental ethics. The essays consider general issues, such as the place of environmental advocacy in the environmental ethics classroom; using outdoor environments to prompt reflection on environmental ethics; and handling student responses, such as pessimism that may emerge from teaching environmental ethics. The essays also consider practical issues, including successfully teaching environmental ethics to students without a background in philosophy; promoting the development of interdisciplinarity; useful ways to structure syllabi; and teaching and learning techniques. This book will be particularly useful to anyone teaching environmental ethics or environmental studies, or interested in the theoretical issues that teaching environmental ethics raises.
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Brill Spaces in-between: Cultural and Political Perspectives on Environmental Discourse
Book SynopsisSpaces in-between goes beyond the emphasis on externalities signalled by the term ‘environment’ to address the isolation of modern technological culture from nature. Solutions require more than an awareness of ‘natural surroundings’ and human destructiveness. We think in terms of the re-conceptualization, re-design and re-negotiation of space. The book is concerned with social practices, belief systems, urban designs, the organization and representation of landscapes and modes of living. These aspects of ‘spatiality’ suggest how to conceive and practice the intermingling of nature and culture and how to develop public commitment to such practices. In the process we show how concern for the environment as an aspect of space helps us to reconceive and reinterpret what it means to be human.Table of ContentsIntroduction Reconsidering Environment: Spatial Contexts and the Development of the Environmental Humanities, Mark Luccarelli and Sigurd Bergmann I: Lived Spaces & Political Contexts Strindberg’s Modern Ecological Subject: “Swedish Nature” Viewed From a Train, Linda Haverty Rugg The Romance of Reinhabitation: Jack London and Knut Hamsun, Peter Mortensen A Cosmopolitan Sense of Place, Carmen Flys Junquera Hannah Arendt on Transcendence in the Public Sphere, Firmin DeBrabander “City Creeks: Lessons in Sustainable Environmental Discourse from a Florida Boom Town”, Thomas Hallock Allotment and Community Gardens: Commons in German Cities, Werner Bigell II: Reconceiving Environmental Space Natural or Political Public Space? Spaces of Interpretation, Environmentalism, and the Sacred Depth, Forrest Clingerman Reconstituting the geographical place: the design of public spaces of exception in the contemporary city, Rodrigo Coelho Living in Bubbles: Peter Sloterdijk’s Spherology and the Environmental Humanities, Hannes Bergthaller Conclusion Medieval Green Cities: Third Space and the Challenge of History, Mark Luccarelli Contributors Index
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Brill Contesting Environmental Imaginaries: Nature and Counternature in a Time of Global Change
Book SynopsisContesting Environmental Imaginaries foregrounds a question central to humanistic environmental studies: How is nature to be perceived and understood in a time of global environmental crisis? A challenge was issued to imagine counter natures, past or present, casting nature as a normative concept into productive relief. One ambition was to highlight shifting perspectives on nature and the environment that may help account for the rise of the environmental humanities; another was to invite challenges to orthodoxies, including those that animate this burgeoning field. Contributions emerged from the study areas of Environmental History, Ecocriticism, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Media Studies, and the History of Ideas. This volume draws together the fruits of this thought experiment.Table of ContentsIntroduction Steven Hartman: Naturalizing Culture and Countering Nature in Discourses of the Environment Part 1: Re-contextualizing Nature Klaus Benesch: Day and Night: Topography and Renewal in Thoreau’s Walden and Douglass’s Narrative Tatiani G. Rapatzikou: James Schuyler’s Flower Poems and the Urban Pastoral Aesthetic Øyunn Hestetun: Palimpsest of Subjugation: Inscriptions of Domination on the Land and the Human Body in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres Mark Luccarelli: Reframing American Naturism? Space, History and the Rise of Environmental Discourse Part 2: Challenging Nature and Envisioning Counternatures Lawrence Buell: Uses and Abuses of Environmental Memory Ursula K. Heise: Environment, Technology and Modernity in Contemporary Japanese Animation Torben Huus Larsen: A Harmony of Murder: Transatlantic Visions of Wilderness in Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man Marcus Nordlund: Literary Appreciation: A Biocultural View Part 3: Applying Counternatures Henrik Otterberg: Dark Darwin: (D)evolutionary Theory and the Logic of Vampirism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Torsten Pettersson: Why Should We Respect Nature? An Appropriation of Nietzsche Karen Lykke Syse: Histories and Ideologies of Nature in Argyll Adriana Méndez Rodenas: “Picturing Eden”: Contesting Fredrika Bremer’s Tropics Håkan Sandgren: Life Under Water: Narratives of Deep Sea Counternatures David E. Nye: Superfund Sites as Anti-Landscapes Index
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Brill The Global and the Local: An Environmental Ethics Casebook
Book SynopsisIn The Global and the Local: An Environmental Ethics Casebook, Dale Murray presents fifty-one actual, unique, and compelling case studies. The book covers a wide variety of environmental topics from those as global as overfishing, climate change, ocean acidification, and e-waste, to those topics as local as whether we should place salt on the driveway during winter, construct rain gardens, or believe we have a duty to hunt. The book also features an easy to read, yet rigorous introductory section exposing readers to ethical theories and approaches to environmental ethics. By interweaving these theoretical considerations into long and short case studies, Murray illuminates a comprehensive range of the most pressing environmental issues facing our biosphere both today and in the future.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1 – Theory and Applied Theory Chapter 1 – General Moral Theories Utilitarianism Kantian Deontology Virtue Ethics Value Chapter 2 – Applications and Approaches to Environmental Ethics Applied Ethics Anthropocentric Environmental Ethics Biocentrism vs. Ecocentrism Deep Ecology Social Ecology Ecofeminism Leopold’s Land Ethic Extensions of Utilitarianism Extensions of Deontology Extensions of Virtue Ethics Part 2 – The Cases Chapter 3 – What is Natural? Does it Matter? Chapter 4 – Business Vs. Environmental Protection Chapter 5 – The Environment, Global Challenges, and Global Economies Chapter 6 – The Greening of Institutions Chapter 7 – Recreation and Environmental Ethics Chapter 8 – Environmental Reform and Unintended Consequences Chapter 9 – Relations between Human and Non-Human Animals Chapter 10 – Think Globally, Act Locally Chapter 11 – Are These Really Environmental Problems? Bibliography Index
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Brill Framing the Environmental Humanities
Book SynopsisThe concept of framing has long intrigued and troubled scholars in fields including philosophy, rhetoric, media studies and literary criticism. But framing also has rich implications for environmental debate, urging us to reconsider how we understand the relationship between humans and their ecological environment, culture and nature. The contributors to this wide-ranging volume use the concept of framing to engage with key questions in environmental literature, history, politics, film, TV, and pedagogy. In so doing, they show that framing can serve as a valuable analytical tool connecting different academic discourses within the emergent interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. No less importantly, they demonstrate how increased awareness of framing strategies and framing effects can help us move society in a more sustainable direction.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Framing Nature Hannes Bergthaller and Peter Mortensen Part 1: Literary Frames 2 Framing in Literary Energy Narratives Axel Goodbody 3 Narrating in Fluid Frames: Overcoming Anthropocentrism in Zora Neale Hurston’s Early Short Fiction on Rivers Matthias Klestil 4 320 Million Years, a Century, a Quarter of a Mile, a Couple of Paces: Framing the ‘Good Step’ in Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran Pippa Marland Part 2: History, Politics, and National Frames 5 Ghosts, Power, and the Natures of Nature: Reconstructing the World of Jón Guðmundsson the Learned Viðar Hreinsson 6 Reframing Sacred Natural Sites as National Monuments in Estonia: Shifts in Nature-Culture Interactions Ott Heinapuu 7 Animals in Norwegian Political Party Programs: A Critical Reading Morten Tønnessen 8 Chemical Unknowns: Preliminary Outline for an Environmental History of Fear Michael Egan 9 Czeching American Nature Images in the Work of Robinson Jeffers and John Steinbeck Petr Kopecký Part 3: Framing Nature on Screen 10 Black-and-White Telecasting? Water Pollution on Finnish and Estonian Television during the Cold War Ottoaleksi Tähkäpää and Simo Laakkonen 11 Who’s Framing Whom? Surrealism and Science in the Documentaries of Jean Painlevé Kathryn St. Ours 12 Cognitivist Film Theory and the Bioculturalist Turn in Eco-Film Studies David Ingram Part 4: Teaching Frames 13 Framing the Alien, Teaching District 9 Roman Bartosch 14 The Nature Study Idea: Framing Nature for Children in Early Twentieth Century Schools Dorothy Kass 15 Matter, Meaning, and the Classroom: A Case-Study Isabel Hoving 16 Postscript: Framing the Environmental Humanities Hannes Bergthaller and Peter Mortensen
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Brill Forest Family: Australian Culture, Art, and Trees
Book SynopsisForest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary periods. The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculpture representing ancient Australian forests. Forest Family centers on the relationship between old-growth nature and human culture through the narrative strand of the Giblett family of Western Australia and the forests in which they settled during the nineteenth century. The volume will be of interest to general readers of environmental history, as well as scholars in critical plant studies and the environmental humanities.Trade Review"This work also makes a worthy contribution to post-dualistic theories of how human histories arise in and out of complex transhuman negotiations." (Peer Reviewer)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Contributors 1 Introducing Forest Family John C. Ryan and Rod Giblett Part 1: Old-Growth Nature and Culture 2 From Understory to Overstory: Critical Studies of Old-Growth Trees and Forests John C. Ryan 3 Forest Giants: Locating Southwest Australian Old-Growth Country John C. Ryan 4 Family Trees: Jarrah, Karri, and the Gibletts of the Balbarrup-Dingup Area Rod Giblett 5 Built in the Forest: A Hamlet History of Giblett Cultural Heritage Rod Giblett Photographic Essay: Let No Man Put Asunder Juha Tolonen Part 2: Old-Growth Arts and Activism 6 From Burls to Blockades: Artistic Interpretations of Karri Trees and Forests John C. Ryan 7 Sing the Karri, Sculpt the Jarrah: Sustaining Old-Growth Forest Through the Arts Robin Ryan 8 Old-Growth Activism: The Giblett Forest Rescue of 1994 and 1997 Nandi Chinna
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Brill Land Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the
Book SynopsisLand Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern Era positions the long Renaissance and eighteenth century as being vital for understanding how many of the concerns present in contemporary debates on climate change and sustainability originated in earlier centuries. Traversing three physical and intellectual domains, Land Air Sea consists of case studies examining how questions of environmentalism were formulated in early modern architecture and the built environment. Addressing emergent technologies, indigenous cultural beliefs, natural philosophy, and political statecraft, this book aims to recast our modernist conceptions of what buildings are by uncovering early modern epistemologies that redefined human impact on the habitable world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on the Editors Notes on Contributors Introduction: Climatic Effects—Environmental Genealogies before Contemporary Crisis Jennifer Ferng and Lauren Jacobi Part 1: Land 1 Land, War, and Castles: The Management of Landed Wealth Katie Jakobiec 2 The Paradoxical Colosseum: A Mesocosm for Early Modern Rome Kristi Cheramie and Robert John Clines 3 Flood Mitigation, Territory, and Time: Girolamo di Pace da Prato in Early Ducal Florence Caroline E. Murphy Part 2: Air 4 Sleeping under the Hazardous Dome of the Sky An Intertextual Study of Representation of Corporeality in Seventeenth Century Architecture and Poetry of Safavid Isfahan Mahroo Moosavi 5 Forced Air: Artificial Power and Environmental Control in Eighteenth-Century Britain Aleksandr Bierig 6 Cosmogenic Histories: Aboriginal Observations on Catastrophe and Climate Jennifer Ferng Part 3: Sea 7 Left on Shore: Iron and Fish in the North Atlantic Christy Anderson 8 Sea Levelling: Britain’s Early Modern Port Infrastructure as Environmental Context William M. Taylor Bibliography Index
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Brill Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities
Book SynopsisImaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities highlights the role literature and visual arts play in fostering sustainability. It weaves together contributions by international scholars, practitioners and environmental activists whose insights are brought together to illustrate how creative imaginations can inspire change. One of the most outstanding characteristic of this volume is its interdisciplinarity and its varied methods of inquiry. The field of environmental humanities is discussed together with ideas such as the role of the public intellectual and el buen vivir. Examples of ecofiction from the UK, the US and Spain are analysed while artistic practices aimed at raising awareness of the effects of the Anthropocene are presented as imaginative ways of reacting against climate change and rampant capitalism.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities Diana Villanueva-Romero, Lorraine Kerslake and Carmen Flys-Junquera PART 1: Humanists in Conversation 1 Environmental Humanities and the Public Intellectual Scott Slovic 2 Humanities in Transition in the European Context Interview with Christof Mauch Diana Villanueva-Romero 3 “El Buen Vivir” is Harmony with the Earth Interview with Rafael Chanchari Pizuri Juan Carlos Galeano PART 2: Interpreting Eco-Visions 4 Environmental Imagination and Wonder in Beatrix Potter Lorraine Kerslake 5 Foregrounding Ecosystems: Thinking with the Work of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison Chris Fremantle and Anne Douglas 6 New Worlds Beyond Reality: Imagined Futures in Laura Gallego’s Las hijas de Tara Irene Sanz-Alonso 7 Simon Ortiz’s Narrative and Joy Harjo’s Poems: Towards Regenerative Societies and New Worlds Imelda Martín-Junquera 8 When Mater Takes a Position Post-Anthropocentric Landscapes in Contemporary Art Bárbara Fluxá Álvarez-Miranda PART 3: Inspiring Change 9 Sense of Place as an Enhancer of Empathy and Ecological Consciousness in the Baix Llobregat Carma Casulá 10 Building Stories to Change the World: Interview with Starhawk Carmen Flys-Junquera and Beatriz Lindo-Mañas 11 Eco-Interactions: Art and Community Elena Sánchez-Vizcaíno and Lucía Loren Atienza Epilogue: Chickens like Celebrities: A Short Story José Manuel Marrero-Henríquez Index
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Brill Animals Matter: Resistance and Transformation in Animal Commodification
Book SynopsisIn this book, we reclaim the term “resistance” by exploring how animals can “resist” their commodification through blocking and allowing human intervention in their lives. In the cases explored in this volume, animals lead humans to rethink their relationship to animals by either blocking and/or allowing human commodification. In some cases, this results in greater control exercised on the animals, while in others, animals’ resistance also poses a series of complex moral questions to human commodifiers, sometimes to the point of transforming humans into active members of resistance movements on behalf of animals.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Julien Dugnoille 1 “If They Could Talk It Would Be Perfect” Visibility of Individual Wild Animals in French Circus Spectacle Elizabeth Vander Meer 2 The Silence and the Fury Addressing Animal Resistance and Agency through the History of Human-Animal Relationships Violette Pouillard 3 The Mejiro Bird Between Commodity, Conservation, and Companion Charlotte Linton 4 Grounding Intimacies Human-Bovid Coexistence and Community Development in Hong Kong Daisy Bisenieks 5 Growing Profitable Deer Livestock and the Individual in Deer Farming Christopher Ward 6 Speaking about Farming Embodied Deliberation and Resistance of Cows and Farmers in the Netherlands Eva Meijer 7 Pièce de Resistance Sartrean Existentialism in Small-Scale Farming Julien Dugnoille Conclusion Reclaiming Resistance Elizabeth Vander Meer Index
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Brill Current Challenges of Environmental Philosophy
Book SynopsisIt is extremely difficult to seek new paths in the twilight of our former idols, ideals and visions of a happy and successful life. The authors of the book invite the reader to embark on this journey in a free-spirited manner and to look at the challenges posed by the new climate regime from different perspectives. Whether one accepts the concept of the Anthropocene as a starting point, or rather as an opportunity for constructive criticism, readers will be fully engaged by thinking through historical-philosophical, scientific, political, social, as well as educational problems.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Richard Stahel and Eva Dedecková 1 Some Dilemmas of Environmental Philosophy: from the Anthropocene to the Anthropo-Scene Leslie Sklair 2 Ecological Civilization as a Philosophical and Political Concept Richard Stahel 3 Common Ownership or Global Commons? Reassessing Risse’s Common Ownership of the Earth Thesis in Light of Climate Crisis Petra Gümplová 4 The Cold War on Global Heating Bretislav Horyna 5 Are We Risking Too Much the Sustainability of the Anthropocene Technosphere? João Ribeiro Mendes 6 The Potential of Environmental Citizenship in Facing Environmental Challenges and the Limits of Individual Environmental Responsibility Anna Mravcová 7 Changing the Philosophy of Education According to Nietzsche and Fink Eva Dedecková Index
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Brill Being Algae: Transformations in Water, Plants
Book SynopsisWater plants of all sizes, from the 60-meter long Pacific Ocean giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) to the micro ur-plant blue-green algae, deserve attention from critical plant studies. This is the first book in environmental humanities to approach algae, swimming across the sciences, humanities, and arts, to embody the mixed nature and collaborative identity of algae. Ranging from Medieval Islamic texts describing algae and their use, Japanese and Nordic cultural practices based in seaweed and algae, and confronting the instrumentalization of seaweed to mitigate cow methane release and the hype of algal photobioreactors, amongst many other standpoints, this volume comprehensively addresses the ancestors of terrestrial plants through appreciating their unique aquatic medium.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Algal mor(t)ality 1 There’s Something in the Water: Algae, Eliminativism, and Our Moral Obligation to Biological Beings M. Polo Camacho and Andrew Lopez 2 Seeking an Algal Perspective: Exploring “Harmful” Algae through an Interview with Nodularia spumigena Jesse D. Peterson 3 Contemplating Life, Death and Time Together with Diatoms Nina Lykke 4 Communicating Algae Polycultures: Photobioreactors, the Phycosphere and Its Living Waters Yogi Hendlin, Johanna Weggelaar, Natalia Derossi and Sergio Mugnai 5 Algae in the Human World: Beauty and Taste Come First Ole G. Mouritsen and J. Lucas Pérez-Lloréns 6 An Investigation of Algae’s Applications, Inspired by Indigenous and Vernacular Craft Traditions Kathryn Larsen 7 Uses of and Considerations on Algae in Medieval Islamic Geography Mustafa Yavuz 8 Microalgae and Human Affairs: Massive Increase in Knowledge Drives Changes in Perceptions of Good and Bad Blooms Gustaaf Hallegraeff 9 Becoming Marimo: The Curious Case of a Charismatic Algae and Imagined Indigeneity Jon L. Pitt 10 “A Seaweed Goes to War”: Agar as a Thermal Medium in C.K. Tseng’s research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1943–1946) Melody Jue 11 Augmented Polycultures: Scaling up Algal Ecosystems and Design of a Biofouling Aesthetic Brenda Parker and Marcos Cruz 12 Phytofictions and Phytofication Julia Lohmann 13 Seaweed as the Denizens of the New Commons in the Anthropocene Soo Jung Ryu and Cintia Organo Quintana Being Algae ~ Coda Index
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Wageningen Academic Publishers Social learning towards a sustainable world: Principles, perspectives, and praxis
Book Synopsis"This comprehensive volume - containing 27 chapters and contributions from six continents - presents and discusses key principles, perspectives, and practices of social learning in the context of sustainability. Social learning is explored from a range of fields challenged by sustainability including: organizational learning, environmental management and corporate social responsibility; multi-stakeholder governance; education, learning and educational psychology; multiple land-use and integrated rural development; and consumerism and critical consumer education. An entire section of the book is devoted to a number of reflective case studies of people, organizations and communities using forms of social learning in moving towards sustainability. 'This book brings together a range of ideas, stories, and discussions about purposeful learning in communities aimed at creating a world that is more sustainable than the one currently in prospect. ...The book is designed to expand the network of conversations through which our society can confront various perspectives, discover emerging patterns, and apply learning to a variety of emotional and social contexts.' From the Foreword by Fritjof Capra, co-founder of the Center of Ecoliteracy. 'Joining what is so clear and refreshing in this book with the larger movements toward a critically democratic and activist education that is worthy of its name, is but one step in the struggle for sustainability. But it is an essential step if we are to use the insights that are included in this book.' From the Afterword by Michael Apple, author of 'Educating the ""Right"" Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality'."Trade Review"This book brings together a range of ideas, stories, and discussions about purposeful learning in communities aimed at creating a world that is more sustainable than the one currently in prospect....The book is designed to expand the network of conversations through which our society can confront various perspectives, discover emerging patterns, and apply learning to a variety of emotional and social contexts." From the Foreword by Fritjof Capra, co-founder of the Center of Ecoliteracy. "Joining what is so clear and refreshing in this book with the larger movements toward a critically democratic and activist education that is worthy of its name, is but one step in the struggle for sustainability. But it is an essential step if we are to use the insights that are included in this book." From the Afterword by Michael Apple, author of 'Educating the "Right" Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality'."
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Hodder & Stoughton Green is the New Black
Book SynopsisFully updated for the paperback edition - this is the must-have accessory for the ethical fashionista!Trade ReviewA must-read. * Vogue *Tamsin's book is less about conscience-pricking, and more about saving the world with style. * Vanity Fair *A fashion must-have for those keen to be green. * Daily Telegraph *This is an excellent gift for anyone interested in going green in the chicest possible way. * Independent *A must-read book. * Daily Mail *Indispensable advice. * Natural Health and Beauty *The beauty of this book is that it weaves green principles and fashion tips together in a lively, accessible way. * Cat Walk Queen *An effortless read ... that motivates and inspires. * Plenty Magazine *Stylish eco-warriors should read Green is the New Black. * ES Magazine *A new green hero. * Sunday Times Style Magazine *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ecological Relations
Book SynopsisInternational relations (IR) traditionally theorises the social relationships between different peoples. In so doing, it ignores the ecological bases to life - the ground upon which we walk, the all-encompassing bind of nature. In the current climate of environmental degradation, international relations as a theory must in turn be altered. By broadening the term ''relations'' to include this ecological framework, international relations can be approached from a changed perspective. In this book, Susan Board uses a Foucauldian model of power to expand the boundaries of international relations. She argues that ''relations'' can include other people or animals, and are not exclusively between states. Such a perspective acts to denaturalise the marginalization of women, animals and indigenous peoples and hence expand the constrained discipline of IR. By rethinking international relations to put ecological foundations first, we are pushed to think and act with consideration of the longTable of Contents1. The Exclusivity of International Relations 2. Understanding of an Ecological Perspective 3. System Building and 'Game Openings': Seeking an Inclusive Attitude for Excluded Ecological Relations 4. Ecological Relations: the Case of Women 5. Ecological Relations: the Case of Non-Human Animals 6. Ecological Relations: the Case of Indigenous Peoples
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Theology and Ecology Across the Disciplines On Care for Our Common Home Religion and the University
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