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Brazil in the Anthropocene
This book examines Brazil's position in the global ecological crisis and how social, political, ethical, scientific and economic issues affect its environmental performance.
Information, Power, and Politics
With the spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) comes the potential both for new social and economic equalities and new forms of inequalities. Information, Power, and Politics: Technological and Institutional Mediations demonstrates that ICTs can act as an impetus for democratizing information and knowledge, while at the same time new institutional frameworks can limit one's use of and access to strategic information and knowledge. The volume's contributors address ways to strengthen and affirm the socially marginalized as well as suggest how best to incorporate (semi)peripheral countries and regions into the international system. Information, Power, and Politics offers a refreshing and timely perspective on the ever-evolving relationship between information, knowledge, and communication.
Ecoart in Action
"Compiled from 67 members of the Ecoart Network, a group of more than 200 internationally established practitioners, Ecoart in Action stands as a field guide that offers practical solutions to critical environmental challenges. Organized into three sections-Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations-each contribution provides models for ecoart practice that are adaptable for use within a variety of classrooms, communities, and contexts"--
The Nutmeg's Curse
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conq...
White Skin, Black Fuel
In recent years, the far right has done everything in its power to accelerate the heating: an American president who believes it is a hoax has removed limits on fossil fuel production. The Brazilian president has opened the Amazon and watched it burn. In Europe, parties denying the crisis and insisting on maximum combustion have stormed into office, from Sweden to Spain. On the brink of breakdown, the forces most aggressively promoting business-as-usual have surged - always in defense of white privilege, against supposed threats from non-white others. Where have they come from? The first study of the far right in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, and reveals its deep historical roots. Fossil-fueled technologies were born steeped in racism. None loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. As such forces rise to the surface, some profess to have the solution - closing borders to save the climate. Epic and riveting, White Skin, Black Fuel traces a future of political fronts that can only heat up.
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.
Sweet Fuel
Early sugar and ethanol policy, 1933-1959 -- Sugar, ethanol, and development, 1959-1975 -- Proálcool, 1975-1985 -- Lakes of sacrifice: ethanol and water pollution -- Proálcool, caneworkers, and the guariba strikes of 1984 -- Proálcool reimagined, 1985-2003.
La maledizione della noce moscata
Nell’aprile del 1621 a Selamon, un villaggio nell’arcipelago delle Banda, una spruzzata di minuscole isole perse tra l’Oceano Indiano e il Pacifico, un banale incidente – una lampada schiantatasi al suolo nella bale-bale, la sala riunioni requisita per sé e per i suoi da Martijn Sonck, funzionario olandese della Compagnia delle Indie orientali – innescò uno dei crimini piú efferati che la storia del colonialismo ricordi. Sonck aveva ricevuto l’ordine di distruggere il villaggio ed eliminare i suoi abitanti. Aveva, però, i nervi a fior di pelle poiché aveva percepito nell’apparente acquiescenza dei nativi un rabbioso fermento. Quando la lampada cadde, il suo nervosismo si m...
A Maldição da Noz-Moscada
Um livro polémico, uma crítica à cosmovisão do Ocidente por um dos mais conceituados romancistas da atualidade. Decorria o ano de 1621. A simples queda de um objeto, uma candeia, é o pretexto para o comandante das tropas holandesas aquarteladas numa das ilhas Banda, no território das Molucas, dar início ao massacre de toda a população local. Poucos habitantes sobreviveriam, e a sua língua e cultura perder-se-iam para sempre. A eliminação do povo Banda é um dos grandes genocídios esquecidos pela História. O motivo: o controlo por parte da Venerável Companhia das Índias Orientais do rentável comércio milenar da noz-moscada, uma especiaria muito apreciada na Europa pelos seus...
De vloek van de nootmuskaat
De nootmuskaat als een parabel voor onze milieucrisis en onthult hoe de uitputting van de aarde begon in de tijd van de VOC. Met speciaal voorwoord voor Nederlandse editie Wat heeft de strijd om het monopolie op de handel in de muskaatnoot te maken met de hedendaagse klimaatverandering? Amitav Ghosh’ boek leidt onze hedendaagse planetaire crisis terug naar de ontdekking van de Nieuwe Wereld en de zeeroute naar de Indische Oceaan. Centraal staat de nu alomtegenwoordige nootmuskaat. In de handen van Ghosh wordt het verhaal van de nootmuskaat een parabel voor onze milieucrisis, die onthult hoe onze welvaart altijd afhankelijk is geweest van aardse materialen zoals specerijen, thee, suikerriet...
