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  • 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

  • Environmental Activism on the Ground

    Small Green and Indigenous Organizing

    by Jessica DeWitt, Sterling Evans, Zoltan Grossman, Mark Leeming, Mark McLaughlin, John Welch, Anna Willow, Frank Zelko ...
    Series Book 9 - Canadian History and Environment
    Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. It illuminates the questions that are central to the ongoing evolution of the environmental movement while reappraising the history and character of late twentieth and early twenty-first ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Next World Conversations

    Reclaiming the Future, One Community at a Time

    by Anna Willow, Terry Hermsen ...
    Next World Conversations is inspired by a simple truth: Times of crisis catalyze visions of better worlds. Temporarily overshadowing the larger and longer-term catastrophes of climate change, ecological decline, and social injustice, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered dramatic transformations in how we work, learn, and interact. Even as loud voices demanded a return to business as usual, many of us ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Post-Carbon Futures

    Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies

    Edited by Anna Willow, Bürge Abiral ...
    Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies explores the multitude of possibilities for conceiving and creating fulfilling post-carbon ways of life.Offering diverse perspectives and abundant empirical examples, this robust volume sheds new light on how complex ecological, economic, and political factors contour processes of conscious cultural change. The ... Read more

    $64.99 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

  • 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

  • ExtrACTION

    Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures

    Edited by Kirk Jalbert, Anna Willow, David Casagrande, Stephanie Paladino ...
    This timely volume examines resistance to natural resource extraction from a critical ethnographic perspective. Using a range of case studies from North, Central and South America, Australia, and Central Asia, the contributors explore how and why resistance movements seek to change extraction policies, evaluating their similarities, differences, successes and failures. A range of ongoing debates ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    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

  • Living Well Now and in the Future

    Why Sustainability Matters

    by Randall Curren, Ellen Metzger ...
    A philosopher and a scientist propose that sustainability can be understood as living well together without diminishing opportunity to live well in the future.Most people acknowledge the profound importance of sustainability, but few can define it. We are ethically bound to live sustainably for the sake of future generations, but what does that mean? In this book Randall Curren, a philosopher, and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Conceptual Innovation in Environmental Policy

    Edited by James Meadowcroft, Daniel J. Fiorino ...
    Series series American and Comparative Environmental Policy
    Concepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of eleven influential concepts ranging from “environment” to “sustainable consumption.”Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning and debate and serve as building blocks for more elaborate arguments. This book traces the links between ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • New Earth Politics

    Essays from the Anthropocene

    Edited by Simon Nicholson, Sikina Jinnah ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    Prominent scholars and practitioners consider the role of global environmental politics in the face of increasing environmental stress.Humanity's collective impact on the Earth is vast. The rate and scale of human-driven environmental destruction is quickly outstripping our political and social capacities for managing it. We are in effect creating an Earth 2.0 on which the human signature is ... Read more

    $18.99 USD