{"title":"Ashley Dawson","description":"\u003cp\u003eAshley Dawson's work offers incisive explorations of environmental and social issues, blending critical analysis with a commitment to grassroots activism. Readers can expect powerful discussions on ecological justice, global inequality, and the role of popular movements in shaping environmental policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis books provide a thoughtful intersection of \u003cem\u003eScience \u0026amp; Nature\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e, making complex ideas accessible without losing their urgency. Dawson's writing invites readers to reconsider the power dynamics behind ecological challenges and to imagine new pathways for collective action.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"environmentalism-from-below-by-ashley-dawson-9781642599701","title":"Environmentalism from Below","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnvironmentalism from Below\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation in the Global South. These communities — among the most vulnerable to but also least responsible for the climate crisis — have long been at the forefront of the fight to protect imperilled worlds. Today, as the world's forests burn and our oceans acidify, grassroots movements are tenaciously defending the environmental commons and forging just and sustainable ways of living on Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eScholar and activist Ashley Dawson constructs a gripping narrative of these movements of climate insurgents, from international solidarity organisations like La Via Campesina and Shack Dwellers International to local struggles in South Africa, Colombia, India, Nigeria, and beyond. Taking up the four critical challenges we face in a warming world — food, urban sustainability, energy transition, and conservation — Dawson shows how the unruly power of environmentalism from below is charting an alternative path forward. From challenging industrial agriculture through fights for food sovereignty and agroecology to resisting extractivism using mass nonviolent protest and sabotage, this movement is transformative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn urgent, essential intervention, \u003ci\u003eEnvironmentalism from Below\u003c\/i\u003e offers a hopeful alternative to the gridlock of UN-based climate negotiations and the narrow nationalism of some Green New Deal efforts. As Dawson reminds us, the fight against ecocide is already being waged worldwide. Building on longstanding traditions of anticolonial struggle, environmentalism from below is a model for a people's movement for climate justice — one that demands solidarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854495633644,"sku":"9781642599701","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/bcde462505776bd82ec949acf7038624.jpg?v=1759269554"},{"product_id":"peoples-power-by-ashley-dawson-9781682192979","title":"People's Power","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe science is conclusive: to avoid irreversible climate collapse, the burning of all fossil fuels will have to end in the next decade.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this concise and highly readable intervention, Ashley Dawson sets out what is required to make this momentous shift. Simply replacing coal-fired power plants with for-profit solar energy farms will only maintain the toxic illusion that it is possible to sustain relentlessly expanding energy consumption. We can no longer think of energy as a commodity. Instead, we must see it as part of the global commons, a vital element in the great stock of air, water, plants, and cultural forms like language and art that are the inheritance of humanity as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeople's Power\u003c\/em\u003e provides a persuasive critique of a market-led transition to renewable energy. It surveys the early development of the electric grid in the United States, telling the story of battles for public control over power during the Great Depression. 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