Climate, Capitalism and Communities. An Anthropology of Environmental Overheating, Paperback - ***

An anthropological perspective on the devastating environmental consequences of global capital's growth imperative.

A major new intervention on the overarching challenges of modernity from one of the world's leading anthropologistsPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s):...

When capitalism doesn't fight climate change but rather tries to make a buck out of it The Great Adaptation tells the story of how scientists, gove...

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This invaluable text, written by one of the world's most influential black scholars, re-imagines the communal ideal from a broader perspective that...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdNumber of pages: 180Collection: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book SeriesPublicati...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 31 colour and 53 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 241 x 24C...

Presents a fresh theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among nonliterate peoples. The author u...

From the 2019/2020 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh In God's Image describes how centering our culture on the human and divine spiri...

Ritual is one of the most discussed cultural practices, yet its treatment in anthropological terms has been seriously limited, characterized by a h...

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This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects have appropriated the medieval past for their own en...

Reducere. Sylvia Hood Washington's Packing Them In provides strong and often startling evidence of the depths and complexities of environmental racism in Chi...

In Magic's Reason, Graham M. Jones tells the entwined stories of anthropology and entertainment magic. The two pursuits are not as separate as they...

Reducere. Frustrated by her students' performance, her relationships with them, and her own daughter's problems in school, Susan D. Blum, a professor of anth...

In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful...

This handbook examines human responses to climatic and environmental changes in the past, their impacts on disease patterns, nutritional status, mi...

Artistic residency has recently become popular and well-supported within Taiwan. This book explores the challenges that this form of art practice f...

Reducere. DescriptionAs the book's title suggests, this book uses anthropological methods and insights to study the practice of anthropology as an academic d...

In this brilliant reimagining of Marx's concept of forces of production, Graham shows that the power of fossil capital, not technological deficienc...

Reducere. This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): E. C. H. (Umea University, Sweden) KeskitaloIllustration(s): 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustra...

Reducere. Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining in...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 18 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 6 Tables, black and white; 21 Illu...

A comprehensive guide for surviving climate chaos for aid professionals and students, city mayors and government officials. It contributes to a glo...

It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts wit...

Reducere. Millions around the world are demanding action and actively seeking solutions to the unfolding climate crisis. The dialogue at the top is confined ...

Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hans-Hermann HoppeNew 2nd Edition w/ new Intro by Hans Hoppe Here is Hans Hoppe's first treatise in English - actually his ...

An examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change politics, and how this affects our ability to achieve equitable and sustainable ...

Despite growing discussions on the relationship between sustainability and finance, so far little attention has been given to the relation linking ...

Stuart Kirsch is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has consulted widely on environmental issues and land rights...

Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices a...

From St. Louis to New Orleans, from Baltimore to Oklahoma City, there are poor and minority neighborhoods so beset by pollution that just living in...

An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome - Lukas Thommen

Publisher: Resistance BooksIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 286Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 140 x 229 x 18Cover ty...

Naomi Klein's international bestseller This Changes Everything is a must-read on our future, one of the defining and most hopeful books of this era...

DescriptionClimate change continues to impact our health and safety, the economy, and natural systems. With climate-related protections and program...

A radical and original book showing how art can provide both practices of communing and a language of anti-capitalist critique.

Reducere. Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy - everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthrop...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat is healing justice? Who practices it? What does it look like? In this groundbreaking international comparative study on healing jus...

This book examines the issue of environmental justice across eleven short chapters, with the aim of creating a resilient society.Publisher: Taylor ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Aihwa OngIntroduction by: Carla FreemanIn the two decades since its original publication, Spirits of Resistance and Capital...

Reducere. DescriptionWestern Oregon's Willamette Basin, once a vast wilderness, became a thriving community almost overnight. When Oregon territory was opene...

Reducere. What if the harbinger of our greener future was a small power plant set in the middle of nowhere in West Texas? Longtime alternative energy executi...

DescriptionThe Ethics of Climate Change: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding arguably the gr...