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Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment
The Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment provides an in-depth and accessible analysis and theorization of environmental issues in the region. It will help readers make connections between Latin American and other regions’ perspectives, experiences, and environmental concerns. Latin America has seen an acceleration of environmental degradation due to the expansion of resource extraction and urban areas. This Handbook addresses Latin America not only as an object of study, but also as a region with a long and profound history of critical thinking on these themes. Furthermore, the Handbook departs from most treatments on the topic by studying the environment as a social iss...
Landscapes of Inequity
The natural wealth of the Amazon and Andes has long attracted fortune seekers, from explorers, farmers, and gold panners to multimillion-dollar mining, oil and gas, and timber operations. Modern demands for commodities have given rise to new development schemes, including hydroelectric dams, open cast mines, and industrial agricultural operations. The history of human habitation in this region is intimately tied to its rich biodiversity, and the Amazon basin is home to scores of indigenous groups, many of whom have populations so small that their cultural and physical survival is endangered. Landscapes of Inequity explores the debate over rights to and use of resources and addresses fundamen...
African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization
Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film. Volume Three of this landmark series on African cinema spans the past century and is devoted to the documentation of decoloniality in cultural policy in both Africa and the Black diaspora worldwide. A compendium of formal resolutions, declarations, manifestos, and programmatic statements, it chronologically maps the long history and trajectories of cultural policy in Africa and the Black Atlantic. Beginning with the 1920 declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, which anticipates cinema as we know it today, and the formal oppositional assertions—aspirational and practical. The first part of this work references formal statements that pertain directly to cultural policy and cinematic formations in Africa, while the next part addresses the Black diaspora. Each entry is chronologically ordered to account for when the statement was created, followed by where and in what context it was enunciated.
Lutar com a floresta
O interior do Brasil tem sido objeto da cobiça de colonialistas internos e externos desde a Conquista. Ainda hoje, grileiros continuam a roubar terras na Amazônia, substituindo a floresta por gado e soja para exportação. Mas os povos indígenas e os posseiros resistem. E uma forma de resistência tem sido o combate à produção destrutiva por meio da instalação de reservas agroextrativistas, que reproduzem a vida através da extração duradoura da borracha ou da castanha-do-brasil, entre outras dádivas da natureza. Desde Chico Mendes, assassinado em 1988, há muitos exemplos de resistência popular contra a depredação da Amazônia. Maria e José Cláudio defenderam a floresta até a morte com verdadeira ousadia, sem ganância e com um altruísmo apaixonado pelos outros seres vivos. Este livro narra os fatos e explica os valores sociais e ecológicos em jogo no assassinato do casal — mais um dos muitos atentados que vitimam os verdadeiros ambientalistas: pobres, subalternos, indígenas, a vanguarda da preservação, os quais o trabalho de Felipe Milanez eleva a símbolo e exemplo. — Joan Martínez-Alier
People of the Rainforest
In 1945, three young brothers joined and eventually led Brazil's first government-sponsored expedition into its Amazonian rainforests. After more expeditions into unknown terrain, they became South America's most famous explorers, spending the rest of their lives with the resilient tribal communities they found there. People of the Rainforest recounts the Villas Boas brothers' four thrilling and dangerous 'first contacts' with isolated indigenous people, and their lifelong mission to learn about their societies and, above all, help them adapt to modern Brazil without losing their cultural heritage, identity and pride. Author and explorer John Hemming vividly traces the unique adventures of these extraordinary brothers, who used their fame to change attitudes to native peoples and to help protect the world's surviving tropical rainforests, under threat again today.
Fighting the tide
This text forms part of a long-term project undertaken by Dejusticia as part of its international work. The project revolves around the Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates that Dejusticia organizes each year to foster connections among and train a new generation of action researchers. The workshop helps participants develop action-research tools, understood as the combination of rigorous research and practical experience in social justice causes. For ten days, Dejusticia brings approximately fifteen participants and ten expert instructors to Colombia for a series of practical and interactive sessions on research, narrative writing, multimedia communication, and s...
The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Labour Studies
In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises. They provide an invaluable overview of a fast-growing research field that bridges the social and natural sciences. Chapters provide detailed perspectives of environmental labour studies, environmental struggles of workers, indigenous peoples, farmers and commoners in the Global South and North. The relations within and between organisations that hinder or promote environmental strategies are analysed, including the relations between workers and environmental organisations, NGOs, feminist and community movements.
Memórias sertanistas
Surgido no bojo do encontro Memórias Sertanistas: Cem anos de indigenismo no Brasil, realizado em 2010, no Teatro Sesc Anchieta, este livro narra as experiências dos principais sertanistas brasileiros. Oriundos de diferentes regiões do país, eles vivenciaram um importante período da história nacional, marcado pela expansão econômica para o oeste e pelo processo de criação de meios para proteger os povos indígenas. Sem os sertanistas os confrontos com a sociedade ocidental que ocorreram no último século teriam sido ainda mais atrozes. Na linha de frente desses conflitos, cabia a eles a difícil tarefa de proteger os índios do próprio Estado para o qual trabalhavam e da mesma sociedade que representavam. O livro conta com depoimentos de Afonso Alves da Cruz, Altair Algayer, Fiorello Parise, Jair Condor, José Carlos Meirelles, José Porfírio, Marcelo dos Santos, Odenir Pinto, Sydney Possuelo, Wellington Figueiredo, além dos representantes indígenas Afukaka Kuikuro e Paulo Supretaprã Xavante e o ensaio da antropóloga Betty Mindlin.
Indigenous Churches
This book raises the question of what an Indigenous church is and how its members define their ties of affiliation or separation. Establishing a pioneering dialogue between Amazonian and Gran Chaco studies on Indigenous Christianity, the contributions address historical processes, cosmological conceptions, ritual practices, leadership dynamics, and material formations involved in the creation and diversification of Indigenous churches. Instead of focusing on the study of missionary ideologies and praxis, the book explores Indigenous peoples' interpretations of Christianity and the institutional arrangements they make to create, expand, or dismantle their churches. In doing so, the volume offers a South American contribution to the theoretical project of the anthropology of Christianity, especially as it relates to the issue of denominationalism and inter-denominational relations.
Land, Water, Air and Freedom
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This ground-breaking book makes visible the global counter-movement for environmental justice, combining ecological economics and political ecology. Using 500 in-depth empirical analyses from the Atlas of Environmental Justice, Martínez-Alier analyses the commonalities shared by environmental defenders and offenders respectively.
