The Politics of the Earth

DescriptionAn understanding of International Relations exclusively as a sphere plagued by countless known and unknown risks, looming disasters and ...

DescriptionNongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are ubiquitous in the Global South. Often international in origin, many attempt to assist local eff...

Traces the usufructuary ethos from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteenth-century poems of colonial com...

Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, ec...

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

This book foregrounds anticolonial theories of reading to reveal an alternative strain of anticolonialism committed not to the forms of authority t...

DescriptionViolent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines...

DescriptionThis book explores the tribal politics of the Awlad 'Ali Bedouin in the borderland of Egypt and Libya. These tribal politics are part of...

DescriptionIn 1995, the People's Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks...

A highly regarded academic and former policy analyst and consultant charts the forty-year history of neoliberalism, environmental governance, and r...

The articles in the volume contribute to a relatively new domain of scholarly research - the ecological anthropology, focusing especially on contem...

Referencing Deleuzian philosophy, Azumi Tamura provides a different epistemological and ontological approach to the Social Movement Studies. She in...

Reducere. "This collection provides a powerful and sophisticated analysis of how environmental movements influence politics in Asia, and how politics influen...

Written in both autoethnographical and narrative form, The Politics of Exile offers unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with re...

Provides a concise, thorough overview of the science, technology, economics, policy, and politics of climate change in a single volume. Ideal for u...

Based on extensive original research at the local level, this book explores the relationship between Russian Orthodoxy and politics in contemporary...

The surprise election of Hasan Rouhani in 2013 has refocused attention on the dynamics between Islam and democracy in Iran after the hiatus of the ...

Reducere. Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activis...

The Politics of the Earth is an innovative and highly respected introduction to environmental politics through a discourse-centred approach. From s...

Global Environmental Politics provides a comprehensive introduction to the key concepts, theories, methods, and debates in environmental politics. ...

The 21 chapters in this book analyze selected case studies of architectures and landscapes around the world, contextualizing them within economic g...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis IncIllustration(s): 29 Halftones, black and white; 2 Tables, black and white; 29 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber o...

Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of violence. Through...

Environmental Activism and the Media: The Politics of Protest is for those with an interest in cultural, social, and political studies; democratic ...

DescriptionShortly after the giant bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, student protestors called for the d...

Publisher: Indiana University PressIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 298Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 2...

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

Rich in case study insights, this book provides an overview of city-region building and considers how governance restructuring shapes political, ec...

In the face of a set of environmental crises, a growing number of environmental and community groups are focusing on more sustainable practices in ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote...

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and mus...

The politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state acted as a "neutral broker" rather than protecting t...

Reducere. In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the p...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Joshua Frens-StringIllustration(s): 14 b-w illustrations, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 322Publicati...

Reducere. The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a ...

When do local communities benefit from natural resource extraction? This book explores why mining companies distribute benefits of mineral extracti...

Reducere. DescriptionSituating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the...

This book is for researchers, students and those with an interest in organisation and management studies, environmental politics, and sustainabilit...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994.Publisher: Duke University PressAuthor(s): Mart...

This book explains why emerging economies have come to dominate global environmental politics and examines the implications for international coope...

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity...

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

Reducere. This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Elizabeth A. Fenn, and explanations of the book's influenc...

DescriptionJapan's U.S.-imposed postwar constitution renounced the use of offensive military force, but, as Sheila Smith shows, a nuclear North Kor...

DescriptionAs the situation in Israel/Palestine seems to become ever more intractable and protracted, the need for new ways of looking at recent de...

DescriptionIn 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives-who had won every pro...

This study analyses the politics of climate policy in a range of affluent democracies and at EU level in order to identify political strategies tha...

DescriptionThe vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Min Hee GoIllustration(s): 20 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

DescriptionDuring the early seventeenth century, Kisama emerged in West Central Africa (present-day Angola) as communities and an identity for thos...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons LtdAuthor(s): M CondeNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 16Cover type: Paperback / sof...

A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.

A powerful analysis of events that helped galvanise resistance across civil society. The 2017 publication of Betrayal of the Promise, the report th...

Reducere. National Jewish Book Awards WinnerIn 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army, was wrongfully convicted of being a spy for Germany...

Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of the idea of energy from the Industrial Revolution to the present, showing how it has informed fossil fuel ...

An ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New GuineaPublisher: Duke University...

China's 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imper...

William E. Connolly expands his influential work on democratic pluralism to confront the perils of climate change by calling on us to deepen our at...

DescriptionFrom the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of t...

* Natural disasters regularly reach a high degree of prominence in the media, but we rarely see the political aspects of the ways that disasters ar...

DescriptionHan-centrism, a virulent form of Chinese nationalism, asserts that the Han Chinese are superior to other peoples and have a legitimate r...

DescriptionAlthough the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imp...

DescriptionEvidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a se...

In The Security Archipelago, Paul Amar provides an alternative historical and theoretical framing of the refashioning of free-market states and the...

Under one cover, Frank Incropera provides a comprehensive, objective and critical assessment of all issues germane to the climate change debate: sc...

"A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it." Bill Clinton, 42nd Pre...

Reducere. Red-Green Revolution is an impassioned and informed confrontation with the planetary emergency brought about by accelerated ecological devastation ...

Reducere. In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway...