Inescapable Ecologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inescapable Ecologies write by Linda Nash. This book was released on 2007-01-05. Inescapable Ecologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem. With this book, Linda Nash gives us a wholly original and much longer history of "ecological" ideas of the body as that history unfolded in California’s Central Valley. Taking us from nineteenth-century fears of miasmas and faith in wilderness cures to the recent era of chemical pollution and cancer clusters, Nash charts how Americans have connected their diseases to race and place as well as dirt and germs. In this account, the rise of germ theory and the pushing aside of an earlier environmental approach to illness constituted not a clear triumph of modern biomedicine but rather a brief period of modern amnesia. As Nash shows us, place-based accounts of illness re-emerged in the postwar decades, galvanizing environmental protest against smog and toxic chemicals. Carefully researched and richly conceptual, Inescapable Ecologies brings critically important insights to the histories of environment, culture, and public health, while offering a provocative commentary on the human relationship to the larger world.
Inescapable Ecologies
Inescapable Ecologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inescapable Ecologies write by Linda Lorraine Nash. This book was released on 2006. Inescapable Ecologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Inescapable Ecologies
Inescapable Ecologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inescapable Ecologies write by Linda Nash. This book was released on 2006. Inescapable Ecologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher description
Territories of Difference
Territories of Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Territories of Difference write by Arturo Escobar. This book was released on 2008-11-26. Territories of Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN’s visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement’s struggles for autonomy, territory, justice, and cultural recognition. Yet he also does much more. Consistently emphasizing the value of local activist knowledge for both understanding and social action and drawing on multiple strands of critical scholarship, Escobar proposes new ways for scholars and activists to examine and apprehend the momentous, complex processes engulfing regions such as the Colombian Pacific today. Escobar illuminates many interrelated dynamics, including the Colombian government’s policies of development and pluralism that created conditions for the emergence of black and indigenous social movements and those movements’ efforts to steer the region in particular directions. He examines attempts by capitalists to appropriate the rainforest and extract resources, by developers to set the region on the path of modernist progress, and by biologists and others to defend this incredibly rich biodiversity “hot-spot” from the most predatory activities of capitalists and developers. He also looks at the attempts of academics, activists, and intellectuals to understand all of these complicated processes. Territories of Difference is Escobar’s effort to think with Afro-Colombian intellectual-activists who aim to move beyond the limits of Eurocentric paradigms as they confront the ravages of neoliberal globalization and seek to defend their place-based cultures and territories.
Managing the Unknown
Managing the Unknown - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Managing the Unknown write by Frank Uekötter. This book was released on 2014-03-01. Managing the Unknown available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Information is crucial when it comes to the management of resources. But what if knowledge is incomplete, or biased, or otherwise deficient? How did people define patterns of proper use in the absence of cognitive certainty? Discussing this challenge for a diverse set of resources from fish to rubber, these essays show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, environmental ignorance does not inevitably shrink with the march of scientific progress: these essays suggest more of a dialectical relationship between knowledge and ignorance that has different shapes and trajectories. With its combination of empirical case studies and theoretical reflection, the essays make a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on the production and resilience of ignorance. At the same time, this volume combines insights from different continents as well as the seas in between and thus sketches outlines of an emerging global resource history.
