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  • Removing Mountains

    Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields

    de Rebecca R. Scott ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    A coal mining technique practiced in southern West Virginia known as mountaintop removal is drastically altering the terrain of the Appalachian Mountains. Peaks are flattened and valleys are filled as the coal industry levels thousands of acres of forest to access the coal, in the process turning the forest into scrubby shrublands and poisoning the water. This is dangerous and environmentally ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Black Faces, White Spaces

    Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors

    de Carolyn Finney ...
    Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans. Bridging the fields of environmental ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    de Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of ... Leer más

    $28.09 USD

  • Ethnicity, Inc.

    de John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in ... Leer más

    $20.89 USD

  • Abolition Geography

    Essays Towards Liberation

    de Ruth Wilson Gilmore ...
    THE POLITICS OF ABOLITION: The first-ever collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography, police brutality, and mass incarceration.“. . . . filled with sharp intelligence and even wit . . . Gilmore forces us to think of race, class, prisons, and the world in entirely new ways.” —NPRGathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s work from over three ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Extreme Cities

    The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

    de Ashley Dawson ...
    A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisisHow will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Break Through

    Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists

    de Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus ...
    Two of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” reject the status quo of liberal politics and offer a bold vision for addressing climate change.Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a firestorm of controversy with their self-published essay “The Death of Environmentalism,” which argued that the existing model of environmentalism cannot adequately address global warming and that a new ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Rehearsals for Living

    de Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    Series Libro 3 - Abolitionist Papers
    Amid the overlapping crises of a pandemic, ecological disaster, and global capitalism, two leading Black and Indigenous feminist theorists ask one another: what do liberated lands, minds, and bodies look like? These letters are part debate, part dialogue, and part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp thinkers, sending notes to each other during a stormy present. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Exit Zero

    Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago

    de Christine J. Walley ...
    Winner of CLR James Book Prize from the Working Class Studies Association and 2nd Place for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing.In 1980, Christine J. Walley's world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the ensuing years, ninety thousand other area residents would also lose their jobs in the mills—just one example of ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Cultivating Food Justice

    Race, Class, and Sustainability

    Edición de Alison Hope Alkon, Julian Agyeman ...
    Series series Food, Health, and the Environment
    Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on local family farms. But many ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Why We Left the Left

    Personal Stories by Leftists/Liberals Who Evolved to Embrace Libertarianism

    de Tom Garrison ...
    One political question intrigues almost everyone who studies, participates, or is interested in politics: “Why do people identify with a certain ideology and/or political party?” Numerous scholarly and popular books examine political ideology/party identification and why certain ideologies attract certain individuals. This book examines that question in two separate, yet joined phases. Why do ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • White Bound

    Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race

    de Matthew Hughey ...
    Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning. Too frequently, debates are framed as clear points of opposition—us versus them. And when considering white racial identity, a split between progressive movements and a neoconservative backlash is all too frequently assumed. Taken at face value, it would seem that whites are splintering into antagonistic ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD