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Life and Death Matters
Human Rights, Environment, and Social Justice, Second Edition
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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
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).
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