Nature Protests: The End of Ecology in Slovakia, Edward K. Snajdr
Автор: Morton Timothy Название: Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World ISBN: 0816689237 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816689231 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 4354.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls "hyperobjects"-entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place. Morton explains what hyperobjects are and their impact on how we think, how we coexist, and how we experience our politics, ethics, and art.
Автор: Edward K. Snajdr Название: Nature Protests: The End of Ecology in Slovakia ISBN: 029598855X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295988559 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 15101.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, policy makers, and environmental practitioners to understand the dynamic relationship between environmental movements and the state. In communist Eastern Europe, environmental activism fueled the rise of democratic movements and the overthrow of totalitarianism. Yet, as this study of environmentalism in Slovakia shows, concern for the environment declined during the post-communist period, an ironic victim of its own earlier success.
Through ethnographic interviews and archival materials, Edward Snajdr explains why Slovakia's ecology movement, so strong under socialism, fell apart so rapidly despite the persistence of serious environmental problems in the region. Synthesizing theory in anthropology and political ecology, he suggests that the fate of environmentalism in Slovakia marks the beginning of a global post-ecological age, where nature is culturally maginalized in new ways.
In addition to its significance for policy makers, this book will be a valuable resource for anthropologists, sociologists, political ecologists, and scholars of East European and post-Soviet studies.
Описание: Examines the domestic and international use of phenoxy herbicides by the United States in the mid-twentieth century.In The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests, Amy M. Hay profiles the attitudes, understandings, and motivations of grassroots activists who rose to fight the use of phenoxy herbicides, or Agent Orange chemicals as they are commonly known, in various aspects of American life during the post-WWII era. Hay focuses her analysis on citizen responses to illuminate how regulatory policies were understood, challenged, and negotiated, contributing to a growing body of research on chemical regulatory policies, risk society, and hazardous chemicals. This volume uncovers new understandings about the authority of the state and its obligation to society, the role of scientific authority and expertise, and the protests made by various groups of citizens.First introduced in 1946, phenoxy herbicides mimic hormones in broadleaf plants, causing them to “grow to death” while grass, grains, and other monocots remain unaffected. By the 1950s, millions of pounds of these chemicals were produced annually for use in brush control, weed eradication, forest management, and other agricultural applications. Pockets of skepticism and resistance began to appear by the late 1950s, and the trend intensified after 1962 when Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring directed mainstream attention to the harm modern chemicals were causing in the natural world. It wasn’t until the Vietnam War, however, when nearly 19 million gallons of Agent Orange and related herbicides were sprayed to clear the canopy and destroy crops in Southeast Asia, that the long-term damage associated with this group of chemicals began to attract widespread attention and alarm.Using a wide array of sources and an interdisciplinary approach, Hay contributes to the robust fields of chemical toxicity, regulation, environmental management, and public health. This study of the scientists, health and environmental activists, and veterans who fought US chemical regulatory policies and practices reveals the mechanisms, obligations, and constraints of state and scientific authority in mid-twentieth-century America. Hay also shows how these disparate and mostly forgotten citizen groups challenged the political consensus and contested government and industry narratives of chemical safety.
Автор: Alexander Feh?r Название: Vegetation History and Cultural Landscapes ISBN: 3319868217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319868219 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: This book focuses on the vegetation history of the cultural landscape in southwestern Slovakia, which was established and adopted by mankind and has since constantly evolved in response to ongoing changes (in environmental conditions, biodiversity, land use, etc.). The book analyses four dominant ecosystems typical for the cultural landscape and affected by humans: woodlands, wetlands, grasslands and agricultural land. Each ecosystem is discussed in separate chapters. The chapters include (a) basic information, general aspects, development processes, trends and interpretations, (b) a published or non-published case study based on the author’s own research, and (c) an extensive bibliography. A set of maps on the vegetation history and indices of geographical names and plants names serve to round out the coverage. The work provides an essential point of departure for describing the typical regional characteristics of the cultural landscape, with an eye to its future preservation.
Автор: Christopher Hart, Darren Kelsey Название: Discourses of Disorder: Riots, Strikes and Protests in the Media ISBN: 1474435440 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474435444 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3642.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Drawing on insights from linguistics, multimodality and media studies, this book explores the ideological dimensions of media representation and its function in discursively constructing public understandings of, and attitudes toward, civil disorder.
Автор: Castro Varela Maria Do Mar, Ulker Bariş Название: Doing Tolerance: Democracy, Citizenship and Social Protests ISBN: 3847420240 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783847420248 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 6207.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tolerance and urban in- and exclusion, participatory citizenship and the production of social space - taking urban protests on gentrification and urban restructuring in Berlin and Istanbul as points of departure, the authors discuss different forms of protest movements and struggles.
Автор: Lamond Ian R., Spracklen Karl Название: Protests as Events: Politics, Activism and Leisure ISBN: 1783480769 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783480760 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 20345.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Protests as Events: Politics, Activism and Leisure is an edited collection that explores activism as a leisure activity and protests as events.
Автор: Lamond Ian R., Spracklen Karl Название: Protests as Events: Politics, Activism and Leisure ISBN: 1783480777 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783480777 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 6683.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Protests as Events: Politics, Activism and Leisure is an edited collection that explores activism as a leisure activity and protests as events.
Автор: Flesher Fominaya Cristina Название: Social Movements and Globalization ISBN: 0230360874 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230360877 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 5170.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A cutting-edge and original analysis of contemporary social movements in a globalized world, providing a clear and comprehensive grounding in social movement and globalization theory and drawing on a range of case studies and examples from around the world, from Anonymous and 15-M/Indignados to the Zapatistas.
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