{"product_id":"land-water-air-and-freedom-9781035312764","title":"Land Water Air and Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘In what may serve as a capstone to his distinguished career, Joan Martínez-Alier gives us both a monument to environmental justice scholarship and a practical guide to roughly 500 environmental justice campaigns over the last two centuries. \u003c\/i\u003eLand, Water, Air and Freedom\u003ci\u003e makes a strong case that one of the characteristics of our age is a worldwide environmental justice movement. It is gathering pace, but often in the shadows and out of plain sight, because it is most vigorous on the remote commodity frontiers of the industrial economy – where oil drilling, copper mining, or timber felling take place. This book makes clear both the most fundamental feature of the industrial economy – entropy – and the determination of grandmothers, sharecroppers, housewives, fisherfolk, mineworkers, and many others, to resist. It belongs on the shelf of everyone concerned with environmental justice, environmental politics, environmental sociology, environmental history, or the state of their planet.’\u003c\/i\u003e -- J.R. McNeill, Georgetown University, US\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘With \u003c\/i\u003eLand, Water, Air and Freedom\u003ci\u003e Joan Martínez-Alier, one of the pioneers of ecological economics and political ecology, emerges with his team as the premier cartographer of environmental conflicts worldwide. This highly accomplished book is many things at once: a vivid account of a lifetime’s intellectual and political journey, a monumental compendium of ecological struggles, and an inspiring ontological reframing of the economy beyond growth, based on the pluriverse of modes of life and languages of valuation embodied in the incredible global ferment of popular praxes against industrial extraction. Other worlds and futures are possible – indeed, they are underway. This book is bound to become an indispensable resource for those committed to the profound socioecological transitions demanded from our troubling time.’\u003c\/i\u003e -- Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, US\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘This book is the last door of a trilogy, as the author states, that opens a passage from the nearest to the remotest ecologies of the world transformed into commodity frontiers. It forcefully proves that environmental justice movements are at the same time movements for life and freedom. Joan Martínez-Alier's activism and solidarity-based work in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is to a large extent comparable to what Marx achieved in the second half of the 19th century. Both trace the transformations unfolded by the commodity form: Marx's trilogy built a socio-historical critique of political economy, revealed class conflict as a social distribution and valuation conflict, and recognized the class struggle for social justice. Martínez-Alier's trilogy has built an ecological critique of economics, revealed ecological distribution and valuation conflicts, and recognized the world-movements for environmental justice.’\u003c\/i\u003e -- Zehra Tasdemir Yasin, University of Ankara, Turkey\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Twenty years after the publication of the now classic \u003c\/i\u003eThe Environmentalism of the Poor\u003ci\u003e, Joan Martínez-Alier, the most outstanding environmental justice scholar of our time has gifted humanity with a new book: \u003c\/i\u003eLand, Water, Air and Freedom - The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice\u003ci\u003e. With emphasis on the political force that aspires to bring social justice through environmental struggles, this tour de force is a product of many decades of Joan's deep commitment to environmental justice through the scholar-activist method of work.’\u003c\/i\u003e -- Saturnino M. Borras Jr., International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Netherlands\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘\u003c\/i\u003eLand, Water, Air and Freedom is a tour de force\u003ci\u003e, deftly weaving together insights from decades of research on ecological distribution conflicts and the global environmental justice movement. Spanning an impressive range of regions and issues, Professor Martínez-Alier's inspiring research sheds light on the complex power relations and socio-ecological processes surrounding environmental justice struggles. This vital book challenges dominant economic paradigms, identifies alternative pathways toward wellbeing, sustainability, and justice, and offers important tools for activism.’\u003c\/i\u003e -- Alice Mah, University of Glasgow, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Drawing on a treasure trove of cases from the acclaimed EJ Atlas, renowned ecological economist Joan Marti´nez-Alier has produced a breathtaking study of ecological distribution conflicts around the world. This book will fundamentally transform our thinking and actions concerning environmental justice in the 21st century.’\u003c\/i\u003e -- David N. Pellow, University of California, Santa Barbara, US\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Preface  1 Introduction: comparative political ecology – the EJAtlas, geographical and thematic perspectives  2 Japan: toxic archipelago  3 The Philippines: extractivism and violence  4 Women environmental defenders killed around the world  5 Taiwan’s environmental movement  6 China: political ecology with Chinese characteristics – limits to eco-compensation (with Dr Juan Liu)  7 The Arctic, a growing commodity extraction frontier, with Ksenija Hanaček  8 India: Odisha, one of the states which are victims of “extractivism”  9 India: Kerala and Tamil Nadu  10 The world anti-nuclear movement since the 1970s  11 Biodiversity conservation: “militarized conservation” vs “convivial conservation”  12 East Africa: Kenya and Tanzania, wildlife and human livelihoods  13 South East Africa: Madagascar and Mozambique; transnationals and BINGOs  14 Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea: “we thought it was oil but it was blood”  15 Sand mining for metallic minerals: a new commodity frontier, with Arpita Bisht  16 Blockadia and climate justice: LFFU movements  17 The Andean countries and Southern Cone  18 Mesoamerica and the Caribbean: from Zacatecas to Neo Zapatismo  19 Brazil and the Guianas: iron ores, tailings dams and land conflicts  20 Working-class environmentalism  21 Agrarian justice and human ecology  22 Religious groups as environmental activists  23 The Iberian Peninsula: transboundary conflicts  24 The United States: the cradle of environmental justice against environmental racism  25 Indigenous revival and resistance around the world  26 Preciosities vs bulk commodities in ecologically unequal trade  27 Corporate social irresponsibility and systematic lack of environmental liability  28 Environmental activism, uncertain risks and post-normal science  29 Population and resources: feminism and neo-Malthusianism, with Eduard Masjuan  30 Conclusion: is there a global environmental justice movement?  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