Life and Death Matters

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Human Rights, Environment, and Social Justice, Second Edition

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Life and Death Matters is a seminal text that centres on the frontline experiences of environmental crises, introducing innovative frameworks for understanding the emergence of such crises and the various responses they provoke. This fully updated second edition expands on its pioneering analysis, addressing the shifting landscape of social and environmental systems in the context of post-9/11 security concerns, the realities of global warming and resource scarcity, and the reconfiguration of global power. It also confronts the grave issues of ecocide, ethnocide, and genocide as daily occurrences.

This edition offers a thorough reassessment of scholarship and grassroots activism, making it an indispensable resource for comprehending contemporary environmental and political challenges.
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This book is essential for students, scholars, and policy makers interested in environmental crises, political realignments, and social activism. It is particularly suited for those engaged in politics and current affairs, environmental studies, and security studies within evolving global contexts.

Intends to re-assess the state of scholarship and grassroots activism in a new century when social and environmental systems are being reconceptualised within a post-9/11 biosecurity framework, when global warming and resource scarcity are not fears but realities, and when ecocide, ethnocide, and genocide are daily tragedies.

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The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralising the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding how crises emerge and how different groups of actors respond to them.

This second edition, fully updated with both expanded and new chapters, once again provides a benchmark for the field and opens important pathways for further research.

Authors reassess the state of scholarship and grassroots activism in a new century when social and environmental systems are being reconceptualised within post-9/11 security and biosecurity frameworks, when global warming and resource scarcity are not fears but realities, when global power and politics are being realigned, and when ecocide, ethnocide, and genocide are daily tragedies.

This bold new edition of Life and Death Matters will be a widely used textbook and essential reading for students, scholars, and policy makers.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781598743395

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 January 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Edition: 2nd edition

Contributors:

Edited by Barbara Rose Johnston

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 487

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs

About the Author

Barbara Rose Johnston is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Political Ecology and winner of the Lourdes Arizpe Award for her outstanding contributions in the application of anthropology to environmental issues and discourse. Some of her many important publications are Who Pays the Price?: The Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis (1994); Life and Death Matters: Human Rights and the Environment at the End of the Millennium (1997; 2nd ed forthcoming 2008); Disappearing Peoples: Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia (2007); and The Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report (forthcoming 2008). Holly M. Barker is the former senior advisor to the Republic of the Marshall Islands Ambassador to the United States, and now teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. She is author of Bravo for the Marshallese: Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World (Wadsworth 2004).