Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Contributor(s): Author: Rob NixonThe violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of...

Impoverishment and Asylum argues that a shift has taken place in recent decades towards construing asylum as primarily a political and/or humanitar...

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Over the last two decades environmental issues have become important in public and business policy. This book asks why firms sometimes voluntarily ...

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Reducere. Independent Publisher Book AwardsWe don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumpti...

For nearly a century, the worldwide anthroposophical movement has been a catalyst for environmental activism, helping to bring to life many modern ...

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Drawing on scholarly and media sources, this book presents a common-sense analysis of environmental science, debunking eco-apocalyptic thinking alo...

Reducere. Every day, in newspapers and on television, we read and hear about the ongoing destruction of the environment: the greenhouse effect, ozone layer d...

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How should we share the truth about the environmental crisis? At a moment when even the most basic facts about ecology and the climate face contest...

Reducere. In this thoughtful and highly readable book, No l Sturgeon illustrates the myriad and insidious ways in which American popular culture depicts soci...

Reducere. On March 24, 1980, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated as he celebrated mass in El Salvador. As the Catholic Church prepares to declare Romero...

Reducere. Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor, Paperback

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The Prince and the Poor Boy - Mark Twain

Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and de...

Explores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and increasingly dots the peripherie...

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Reducere. From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants' War (1524-25) that shows striking parallels to cl...

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American environmentalism historically has been associated with the interests of white elites. By examining negotiations of racial and ethnic ident...

The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects, Green Imperialism highlig...

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Reducere. Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence, " this critical edition presents readers ...

A new form of investigative practice that uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction.

Reducere. Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence, " this critical edition presents readers ...

Reducere. We have been shockingly bad at using our Bibles and our brains when it comes to conservation and the environment. Unhinged environmentalism is not ...

Reducere. Besides offering a necessary crash course on the history of the Knights Templar, this book highlights one of the most important documents from the ...

A short, brutal tale by the author of The Order of The Day: the story of a moment in Europe's history when the poor rose up and banded together beh...

DescriptionHow did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play i...

This book provides a detailed account of the lives of the poor in Cameroon, particularly their use of social networks to meet everyday needs.Publis...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Kai BosworthIllustration(s): 9 b&w illustrationsNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimens...

All-day slow cooker recipes for classic home cooking on the busiest days This slow cooker cookbook is the ultimate solution for hands-off slow cook...

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Reducere. AIDS and cancer are neither random nor infectious diseases. Both are characterized by a proton deficit and a reversal of the chimeric/energetic coo...

Reducere. Francis of Assisi, one of the most famous and beloved saints, comes to life for young people in this addition to The Life of a Saint series. With v...

Few of us have what it takes to go 'all the way' on the green scale. This title sets out your choices on a scale from 'completely green' to 'not ev...

A leading biblical scholar places charity back at the heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition, arguing for its biblical roots It has long been ackno...

Reducere. An examination of the relationship between art and cybernetics and their intersections, with works that use the powerlessness of art. Cybernetics o...

The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but t...

Reducere. This book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusion...

Learn how simple it is to cook tasty and healthy meals using only a slow cooker and around half an hour of your free time. Spare no more, prepare y...