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The Wolf
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 435

The Wolf

  • Categories: Art

Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Poem: Trophic Cascade by Camille T Dungy -- Foreword -- Part I. Imagining the Wolf -- 1 The Wolf in the Human Mind Across Space and Time -- 2 A History of Wolves and People in France -- 3 Wolves and Other Mammals Hunted in Medieval English Forests -- 4 'Uuluesheued!' The Historical Significance of the Wolf to Early Indo-Europeans -- 5 Wolves Behind Bars -- 6 Nazi Werewolves from Outer Space: Posthuman-Wolf-Multiplicities and their (Mis)appropriations -- 7 Never Mind the Girl -- What About the Wolf? -- 8 Whose Wol...

Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene

The term “Anthropocene”, the era of mankind, is increasingly being used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch. This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and place of animals in this epoch characterized by anthropogenic (human-made) environmental change. While some chapters describe our impact on the living conditions of animals, others question conventional ideas about human exceptionalism, and stress the complex cognitive and other abilities of animals. The Anthropocene idea forces us to rethink our relation to nature and to animals, and to critically reflect on our own role and place in the world, as a species. Nature is not what it was. Nor are the lives of animals as they used to be before mankind´s rise to global ecological prominence. Can we eventually learn to live with animals, rather than causing extinction and ecological mayhem?

Feral
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Feral

As an investigative journalist, Monbiot found a mission in his ecological boredom, that of learning what it might take to impose a greater state of harmony between himself and nature. He was not one to romanticize undisturbed, primal landscapes, but rather in his attempts to satisfy his cravings for a richer, more authentic life, he came stumbled into the world of restoration and rewilding. When these concepts were first introduced in 2011, very recently, they focused on releasing captive animals into the wild. Soon the definition expanded to describe the reintroduction of animal and plant species to habitats from which they had been excised. Some people began using it to mean the rehabilita...

Intellectual Shamans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383

Intellectual Shamans

Based on the lives of 28 well-known management academics, this book describes what it means to be an intellectual shaman.

Rights of Nature in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 349

Rights of Nature in Europe

  • Categories: Law

This book addresses the recognition of the Rights of Nature (RoN) in Europe, examining their conceptualisation and implementation. RoN refers to a diverse set of legal developments that seek to redefine Nature's status within the law, gradually emerging as a novel template for environmental protection. Countries like Ecuador and New Zealand, each with distinct histories and ways of dwelling in the world, have pioneered a new era in environmental governance by legally acknowledging rights or personhood for nature, ecosystems, and more-than-human populations. In recent years, Europe has witnessed growing interest in RoN, with academic, legislative, and political initiatives gaining momentum. A...

Tales of the Field
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Tales of the Field

Once upon a time ethnographers returning from the field simply sat down, shuffled their note cards, and wrote up their descriptions of the exotic and quaint customs they had observed. Today scholars in all disciplines are realizing how their research is presented is at least as important as what is presented. Questions of voice, style, and audience--the classic issues of rhetoric--have come to the forefront in academic circles. John Van Maanen, an experienced ethnographer of modern organizational structures, is one who believes that the real work begins when he returns to his office with cartons of notes and tapes. In Tales of the Field he offers readers a survey of the narrative conventions...

The Naked Blogger of Cairo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

The Naked Blogger of Cairo

A Times Higher Education Book of the Year Uprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and elsewhere, protesters flooded the streets and the media, voicing dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, videos, and satire that called for the overthrow of dictators and the regimes that sustained them. Investigating what drives people to risk everything to express themselves in rebellious art, The Naked Blogger of Cairo uncovers the creative insurgency at the heart of the Arab uprisings. “A deep dive into the cultural politics of the Arab uprisings...Kraidy’s sharp insights and rich descriptions ...

Australasian Nature Photography
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 113

Australasian Nature Photography

Showcases the best photographs of animals, plants and landscapes taken in Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea.

Jewish Apocalypticism in Late First Century Israel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 466

Jewish Apocalypticism in Late First Century Israel

The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch or Second Baruch is a Jewish work of the late first century C.E., written in Israel in the aftermath of the Jewish War against Rome. It is part of a larger body of post-70 C.E. Jewish literature. The authors of these works had a difficult charge. They needed to re/imagine Judaism and its central symbols, take count of a thriving Diaspora, and articulate how Jewish life was to be lived from then on, without the benefit of a temple. Written at a time of religious reconstruction and mental reorientation, Second Baruch occupies a unique place in the history of early Jewish thought. In this highly original work, the author of Second Baruch developed an apocalyptic ...

Strategies for Cultural Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Strategies for Cultural Change

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-02-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Paul Bate makes sense of a huge range of issues which must be considered in the struggle for change. He has developed a framework that will help students, researchers and practitioners alike to focus on a variety of conceptual and practical matters relating to business culture and cultural change. Strategies for Cultural Change represents one of the most ambitious attempts so far to provide a comprehensive approach to the design and implementation of a cultural change programme. One of five books nominated for the Management Consultancies Association 'Best Management Book of the Year' Prize 1994.