New Perspectives on Environmental Justice PDF Download

Author: Rachel Stein
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813534275
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Women make up the vast majority of activists and organizers of grassroots movements fighting against environmental ills that threaten poor and people of color communities. [This] collection of essays ... pays tribute to the ... contributions women have made in these endeavors. The writers offer varied examples of environmental justice issues such as children's environmental-health campaigns, cancer research, AIDS/HIV activism, the Environmental Genome Project, and popular culture, among many others. Each one focuses on gender and sexuality as crucial factors in women's or gay men's activism and applies environmental justice principles to related struggles for sexual justice. Drawing on a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, the contributors offer multiple vantage points on gender, sexuality, and activism.-Back cover.

Author: Nancy Lee Peluso
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801487118
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Do environmental problems and processes produce violence? Current U.S. policy about environmental conflict and scholarly work on environmental security assume direct causal links between population growth, resource scarcity, and violence. This belief, a staple of governmental decision-making during both Clinton administrations and widely held in the environmental security field, depends on particular assumptions about the nature of the state, the role of population growth, and the causes of environmental degradation.The conventional understanding of environmental security, and its assumptions about the relation between violence and the environment, are challenged and refuted in Violent Environments. Chapters by geographers, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists include accounts of ethnic war in Indonesia, petro-violence in Nigeria and Ecuador, wildlife conservation in Tanzania, and "friendly fire" at Russia's nuclear weapons sites. Violent Environments portrays violence as a site-specific phenomenon rooted in local histories and societies, yet connected to larger processes of material transformation and power relations. The authors argue that specific resource environments, including tropical forests and oil reserves, and environmental processes (such as deforestation, conservation, or resource abundance) are constituted by and in part constitute the political economy of access to and control over resources. Violent Environments demands new approaches to an international set of complex problems, powerfully arguing for deeper, more ethnographically informed analyses of the circumstances and processes that cause violence.

Author: Florence Farr
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781497945746
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1896 Edition.

Author: Walter Lippmann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947844568
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Walter Lippmann wrote his "Public Opinion" at a time when something like the 'mass media' was coming into existence. Prior to the age of electronic communication, the only mechanism for reaching large numbers of individuals was the newspapers. In World War I, he saw how opportunistic nations used the newspapers to serve their often nefarious aims. Lippmann, however, believed that in the hands of super-intelligent, disinterested, omni-benevelont 'experts, ' the 'mass media' could bring about world peace. The school system, the advent of radio, and of course, the television, were arriving or coming along shortly. Each allowed a small group of people the ability to manage a much larger group, inspiring optimism among liberals and progressives that with the right forumula, the horrors seen in World War I would never occur again. Lippmann wrote "Public Opinion" in 1922, shortly after World War I. In 1924, a certain Adolf Hitler would be spending time in jail. If this merited any mention in any newspaper, it is doubtful that no expert paid it any mind. 1939 was, after all, a long way off.

Author: Derek Gregory
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135929068
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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"Violent Geographies is essential to understanding how the politics of fear, terror, and violence in being largely hidden geographically can only be exposed in like manner. The 'War on Terror' finally receives the coolly critical analysis its ritual invocation has long required." —John Agnew, Professor of Geography, UCLA "Urgent, passionate and deeply humane, Violent Geographies is uncomfortable but utterly compelling reading. An essential guide to a world splintered and wounded by fear and aggression—this is geography at its most politically engaged, historically sensitive, and intellectually brave." —Ben Highmore, University of Sussex "This is what a ‘public geography’ should be all about: acute analysis of momentous issues of our time in an accessible language. Gregory and Pred have assembled a peerless group of critical geographers whose essays alter conventional understandings of terror, violence, and fear. No mere gazetteer, Violent Geographies shows how place, space and landscape are central components of the real and imagined practices that constitute organised violence past and present. If you thought terror, violence, and fear were the professional preserve of security analysts and foreign affairs experts this book will force you to think again." —Noel Castree, School of Environment and Development, Manchester University "A studied, passionate and moving examination of the way in which the violent logics of the ‘War on Terror’ have so quickly shuttered and reorganized the spaces of this planet on its different scales. From the book emerges a critical new cartography that clearly charts an archipelago of a large multiplicity of ‘wild’ and ‘tamed’ places as well as ‘black holes’ within and between which we all struggle to live." —Eyal Weizman, Director, Goldsmiths College Centre for Research Architecture

Author: Mario Peresson T.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 100

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Author: Nicolás Murillo Faucher
Publisher: Universidad Externado
ISBN: 9587729064
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 538

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Tener una metodología adecuada es un paso vital para poder ser un gran profesional q un gran investigador; dos formas de trabajar que tienen en común la búsqueda de la excelencia y de resultados positivos. Si se piensa, además, es' de gran ayuda para formar mejores seres humanos; ¡gente con alma!Por esta razón, el área de metodología y análisis de coyuntura de la Facultad de Finanzas, Gobierno y Relaciones. Internacionales de la Universidad Externado de Colombia, tomó la iniciativa de construir un manual que apoye la formación de mentes críticas capaces de "entender el mundo para actuar en él". Para lograr este objetivo, se contó, además, con los apoyos de los investigadores del Centro de Investigaciones. y Proyectos Especiales (CIPE) e investigadores acreditados de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Si se tiene en cuenta que la metodología es una idea y una lógica de construcción del conocimiento que reúne muchos métodos, nos propusimos aterrizar esta idea y convertirla en una herramienta práctica para cualquiera que quisiera fortalecer sus competencias básicas en un espacio a la vez académico y profesionalizante. En síntesis, esta es una propuesta académica que pretende apoyar los procesos de formación personal, académica y profesional: ¡buen provecho!