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  • Anthropological Optimism

    Engaging the Power of What Could Go Right

    Edited by Anna J. Willow ...
    This book theorizes the roles of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out to explore optimism’s origins and implications, its conceptual and practical value, and its capacity to contribute to contemporary anthropological aims. In an era of extensive ecological disruption and social distress, this volume contemplates how an optimistic anthropology can ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Activism

    New Contexts, New Conversations

    Edited by Anna J Willow, Kelly A Yotebieng ...
    This book offers a comprehensive and current look at the complex relationship between anthropology and activism. Activism has become a vibrant research topic within anthropology. Many scholars now embrace their own roles as engaged social actors, which has compelled reflexive attention to the anthropology/activism intersection and its implications. With contributions by emerging scholars as well ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Strong Hearts, Native Lands

    The Cultural and Political Landscape of Anishinaabe Anti-Clearcutting Activism

    by Anna J. Willow ...
    Series series SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building
    Uplifting account of the struggle between the Grassy Narrows First Nation and the Canadian logging industry.In December 2002 members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation blocked a logging road to impede the movement of timber industry trucks and equipment within their 2,500-square-mile traditional territory. The Grassy Narrows blockade went on to become the longest-standing protest of its type in ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Understanding ExtrACTIVISM

    Culture and Power in Natural Resource Disputes

    by Anna J. Willow ...
    Understanding ExtrACTIVISM surveys how contemporary resource extractive industry works and considers the responses it inspires in local citizens and activists. Chapters cover a range of extractive industries operating around the world, including logging, hydroelectric dams, mining, and oil and natural gas extraction. Taking an activist anthropological stance, Anna Willow examines how culture and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    A Time for Atonement

    by Dr. Jean Lafrance ...
    Aboriginal families and communities are losing their children to child welfare systems at an alarming rate. Such children have very poor futures to look forward to; rejection, abuse and belonging to nowhere are too often the fate of children in care. Academic failure, poor self-esteem and loss of identity accompany them, often right into life on the streets, experiencing lateral violence, ... Read more

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  • Understanding Sustainable Development

    by John Blewitt ...
    A truly comprehensive introduction to the topic, Understanding Sustainable Development is designed to give students on a wide range of courses an appreciation of the key concepts and theories of sustainable development.Fully updated, the third edition includes detailed coverage of the Sustainable Development Goals and their impact on global development. Major challenges and topics are explored ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Sacred Civics

    Building Seven Generation Cities

    Edited by Jayne Engle, Julian Agyeman, Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook ...
    Series series Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
    Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature.The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a ... Read more

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  • Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves

    Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and other Catastrophes

    by Jeff Sebo ...
    In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals contributes to pandemics, climate change, and other global threats which, in turn, contribute to biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and nonhuman suffering. Jeff Sebo argues that humans have a moral responsibility to ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics

    by Allen Thompson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rates. Despite a long history of environmental intervention, never before has the collective impact of human behaviors threatened all of the major bio-systems on the planet. Decisions we make today will have significant consequences for the basic conditions ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change

    Human Virtues of the Future

    Edited by Allen Thompson, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer ...
    An analytically precise and theoretically probing exploration of the challenge to our values and virtues posed by climate change.Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark scenarios of environmental catastrophe and purportedly pragmatic ideas about adaptation. This book takes a different perspective, exploring the idea that the challenge of adapting to global climate change ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Climate Change isn't Everything

    Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism

    by Mike Hulme ...
    The changing climate poses serious dangers to human and non-human life alike, though perhaps the most urgent danger is one we hear very little about: the rise of climatism. Too many social, political and ecological problems facing the world today – from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the management of wildfires – quickly become climatized, explained with reference to ‘a change in the climate’. ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Environmental Anthropology Today

    Edited by Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet ...
    Today, we face some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history. Understanding the damage being done and the varied ethics and efforts contributing to its repair is of vital importance. This volume poses the question: What can increasing the emphasis on the environment in environmental anthropology, along with the science of its problems and the theoretical and methodological tools ... Read more

    $69.99 USD