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Toxic
Over the past decade, people have learned about oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon through toxic tours in which a guide brings participants – students, lawyers, environmental activists, journalists, and foreign tourists – to visit contaminated sites. These toxic tours combine personal experience and local knowledge to convince visitors of the immediacy of environmental issues. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, Toxic takes the reader on a visual toxic tour through the Amazon. Following the story of three fictional participants, this graphic novel paints a visceral picture of the waste pits, gas flares, and precarious lives of people in this region. The book challenges the reader to consider what it means to live in a place and historical moment where victims of industrial toxicants are continually required to prove that harm has occurred. Toxic is a vivid reflection on the role of pollutants in our everyday lives, ultimately asking readers to reflect on how we are each implicated in the production, consumption, and exposure of pollution both in the Amazon and at home.
Reckoning with Harm
"The book aims to clarify what it means to be harmed by the petroleum extraction industry and how residents of Amazonia have in fact been harmed. The author critiques legalistic, technocratic definitions of harm, which are routinely used to deny accountability for widespread industry-driven damage and examines the contingencies involved in building an evidentiary base that takes into consideration not only legal documents, scientific studies, and soil samples but also the feel of crude between the fingers, family stories of miscarriages and polluted streams, "toxic tours" arranged for tourists, and political campaigns to call for corporate accountability"--
The Metamorphosis of the Amazon
Offers new perspectives on the history of oil extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon through the experiences of oil workers.
A Brief History of Genetics
Biological inheritance, the passage of key characteristics down the generations, has always held mankind’s fascination. It is fundamental to the breeding of plants and animals with desirable traits. Genetics, the scientific study of inheritance, can be traced back to a particular set of simple but ground-breaking studies carried out 170 years ago. The awareness that numerous diseases are inherited gives this subject considerable medical importance. The progressive advances in genetics now bring us to the point where we have unravelled the entire human genome, and that of many other species. We can intervene very precisely with the genetic make-up of our agricultural crops and animals, and even ourselves. Genetics now enables us to understand cancer and develop novel protein medicines. It has also provided us with DNA fingerprinting for the solving of serious crime. This book explains for a lay readership how, where and when this powerful science emerged.
Violencia, apoyo a las víctimas y reconstrucción social
Estudio comparativo. Experiencias internacionales: Chile, Argentina, Guatemala, Sudáfrica, Irlanda del Norte; La extensión de la violencia política; Estimación de los efectos psicológicos; Impacto de la violencia.
Shell Shocked
What is it that leaves us shell shocked in the face of the massacres carried out in New York on 9/11 or in Paris on 13 November 2015? How are we to explain the intensity of the reaction to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo? Answering these questions involves trying to understand what a society goes through when it is subjected to the ordeal of terrorist attacks. And it impels us to try to explain why millions of people feel so concerned and shaken by them, even when they do not have a direct connection with any of the victims. In Shell Shocked, sociologist Gérôme Truc sheds new light on these events, returning to the ways in which ordinary individuals lived through and responded to the attacks ...
Discursive Remembering
This book aims at building a bridge between the social and political aspects of remembering and the cognitive and discourse processes driving such activities. By analyzing these cognitive and discursive processes, Bietti explores practices of individual and collective remembering in institutional and private settings in relation to periods of political violence in Argentina. This books begins to fill the conceptual gap between cognitive oriented approaches to remembering that draw conclusions about how memory functions in the mind without a detailed discourse analysis of the communicative interaction in which this process unfolds, and the discourse and pragmatic oriented approaches that are ...
Cómo afrontar una catástrofe
Esta obra agrupa un conjunto de trabajos inéditos, de carácter aplicado y un enfoque psicosocial, orientados tanto a la intervención post catástrofes como a la prevención de los problemas psicosociales asociados. Abordan temas como la formación profesional, las formas de organización social para enfrentar las catástrofes, las conductas sociales desvaídas, los efectos en la identidad social, y la percepción del riesgo, entre otros. Son 8 capítulos, y una introducción teórico-conceptual, en los que participan 30 autores de 8 países diferentes (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, España, Francia y Portugal), el 86% de ellos postgraduados (máster y doctores), que se desempeñan en universidades iberoamericanas, centros de salud y otras instituciones.
