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Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People

Kari Marie Norgaard

Author : Kari Marie Norgaard
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813584218

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Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People by Kari Marie Norgaard Pdf

Finalist for the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Since time before memory, large numbers of salmon have made their way up and down the Klamath River. Indigenous management enabled the ecological abundance that formed the basis of capitalist wealth across North America. These activities on the landscape continue today, although they are often the site of intense political struggle. Not only has the magnitude of Native American genocide been of remarkable little sociological focus, the fact that this genocide has been coupled with a reorganization of the natural world represents a substantial theoretical void. Whereas much attention has (rightfully) focused on the structuring of capitalism, racism and patriarchy, few sociologists have attended to the ongoing process of North American colonialism. Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People draws upon nearly two decades of examples and insight from Karuk experiences on the Klamath River to illustrate how the ecological dynamics of settler-colonialism are essential for theorizing gender, race and social power today.

Living in Denial

Kari Marie Norgaard

Author : Kari Marie Norgaard
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262294980

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An analysis of why people with knowledge about climate change often fail to translate that knowledge into action. Global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, yet public response in Western nations has been meager. Why have so few taken any action? In Living in Denial, sociologist Kari Norgaard searches for answers to this question, drawing on interviews and ethnographic data from her study of "Bygdaby," the fictional name of an actual rural community in western Norway, during the unusually warm winter of 2000-2001. In 2000-2001 the first snowfall came to Bygdaby two months later than usual; ice fishing was impossible; and the ski industry had to invest substantially in artificial snow-making. Stories in local and national newspapers linked the warm winter explicitly to global warming. Yet residents did not write letters to the editor, pressure politicians, or cut down on use of fossil fuels. Norgaard attributes this lack of response to the phenomenon of socially organized denial, by which information about climate science is known in the abstract but disconnected from political, social, and private life, and sees this as emblematic of how citizens of industrialized countries are responding to global warming. Norgaard finds that for the highly educated and politically savvy residents of Bygdaby, global warming was both common knowledge and unimaginable. Norgaard traces this denial through multiple levels, from emotions to cultural norms to political economy. Her report from Bygdaby, supplemented by comparisons throughout the book to the United States, tells a larger story behind our paralysis in the face of today's alarming predictions from climate scientists.

New Jersey's Environments

Neil M. Maher

Author : Neil M. Maher
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813539225

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New Jersey's Environments by Neil M. Maher Pdf

Americans often think of New Jersey as an environmental nightmare. As seen from its infamous turnpike, which is how many travelers experience the Garden State, it is difficult not to be troubled by the wealth of industrial plants, belching smokestacks, and hills upon hills of landfills. Yet those living and working in New Jersey often experience a very different environment. Despite its dense population and urban growth, two-thirds of the state remains covered in farmland and forest, and New Jersey has a larger percentage of land dedicated to state parks and forestland than the average for all states. It is this ecological paradox that makes New Jersey important for understanding the relationship between Americans and their natural world. In New Jersey’s Environments, historians, policy-makers, and earth scientists use a case study approach to uncover the causes and consequences of decisions regarding land use, resources, and conservation. Nine essays consider topics ranging from solid waste and wildlife management to the effects of sprawl on natural disaster preparedness. The state is astonishingly diverse and faces more than the usual competing interests from environmentalists, citizens, and businesses. This book documents the innovations and compromises created on behalf of and in response to growing environmental concerns in New Jersey, all of which set examples on the local level for nationwide and worldwide efforts that share the goal of protecting the natural world.

Boardwalk Empire and Philosophy

Richard Greene,Rachel Robison-Greene

Author : Richard Greene,Rachel Robison-Greene
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812698329

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Boardwalk Empire and Philosophy by Richard Greene,Rachel Robison-Greene Pdf

From Machiavellian city officials to big-time mobsters, corrupt beat cops, and overzealous G-men, Boardwalk Empire is replete with philosophically compelling characters who find themselves in philosophically interesting situations. This book is directed at thoughtful fans of the show. Here, readers discover parallels between the events in Boardwalk Empire and contemporary political events. Twenty philosophers address issues in political philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, feminism, and metaphysics. Is Nucky Thomson a Machiavellian prince or a Nietzschean superman? Is Jimmy's resentment towards Nucky justified, given that Jimmy would never have come into existence had his parents not met? What can be said about the ethics of lying in the seedy world of bootlegging? Agent Van Alden’s unique religious attitudes bring a warped sense of morality to the Boardwalk universe. One chapter brings to light the moral character of Van Alden’s God. Other chapters explores the roles that storytelling, deception, and gender play in the show.

Vanishing Bees

Sainath Suryanarayanan,Daniel Lee Kleinman

Author : Sainath Suryanarayanan,Daniel Lee Kleinman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813574615

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Vanishing Bees by Sainath Suryanarayanan,Daniel Lee Kleinman Pdf

In 2005, beekeepers in the United States began observing a mysterious and disturbing phenomenon: once-healthy colonies of bees were suddenly collapsing, leaving behind empty hives full of honey and pollen. Over the following decade, widespread honeybee deaths—some of which have come to be called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)—have continued to bedevil beekeepers and threaten the agricultural industries that rely on bees for pollination. Scientists continue to debate the causes of CCD, yet there is no clear consensus on how to best solve the problem. Vanishing Bees takes us inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the mystery of CCD, including beekeepers, entomologists, growers, agrichemical companies, and government regulators. Drawing from extensive interviews and first-hand observations, Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman examine how members of each group have acquired, disseminated, and evaluated knowledge about CCD. In addition, they explore the often-contentious interactions among different groups, detailing how they assert authority, gain trust, and build alliances. As it explores the contours of the CCD crisis, Vanishing Bees considers an equally urgent question: what happens when farmers, scientists, beekeepers, corporations, and federal agencies approach the problem from different vantage points and cannot see eye-to-eye? The answer may have profound consequences for every person who wants to keep fresh food on the table.

A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path

Gregory Forth

Author : Gregory Forth
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228000044

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A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path by Gregory Forth Pdf

The Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores refer to someone who begins something but is regularly distracted by other matters as "a dog pissing at the edge of a path." In this first comprehensive study of animal metaphors in a non-Western society, Gregory Forth focuses on how the Nage understand metaphor and use their knowledge of animals to shape specific expressions. Based on extensive field research, A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path explores the meaning and use of over 560 animal metaphors employed by the Nage. Investigating how closely their indigenous concept of pata péle corresponds to the Greek-derived English concept of metaphor, Forth demonstrates that the Nage people understand these figures of speech in the same way as Westerners – namely as conventional ways of speaking about people and objects, not expressions of an essential identity between their animal vehicles and human referents. Theoretically engaging with anthropology's recent ontological turn, the book considers whether metaphors reveal significant differences in conceptions of human-animal relations, the human-animal contrast, and human understanding of other humans in different parts of the world. An incredible catalogue of animal-based linguistic art and Nage verbal conventions, A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path illuminates essential features of metaphorical thought everywhere.

Media, Culture And The Environment

Alison Anderson

Author : Alison Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317756552

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Media, Culture And The Environment by Alison Anderson Pdf

This book is intended for final year undergraduates and postgraduates in cultural and media studies, as well as postgraduate and academic researchers. Courses on culture and the media within sociology, environmental studies, human geography and politics.

Nature and Culture in the Andes

Daniel W. Gade

Author : Daniel W. Gade
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0299161242

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Nature and Culture in the Andes by Daniel W. Gade Pdf

This text reveals the intimate and unexpected relationships of plants, animals and people in western South America. Daniel Gade encourages the reader to look beyond the obvious to see the true complexity of ecological relationships.

The Haida Gwaii Lesson

Mark Dowie

Author : Mark Dowie
Publisher : Inkshares
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781942645566

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The Haida Gwaii Lesson by Mark Dowie Pdf

In The Haida Gwaii Lesson, former University of California journalism professor and Mother Jones editor Mark Dowie shares the story of the Haida people, relating their struggle for sovereignty and title over their ancient homeland as a strategic playbook for other indigenous peoples. For over 10,000 years, the Haida people thrived on a rugged and fecund archipelago south of Alaska, which they called Haida Gwaii. Nicknamed "the Galapagos of the North," the islands are blessed with a diversity of species unmatched in the northern hemisphere. As western Canada was settled by Europeans, the pressure on natural resources spread with the growing population and its demand for fur, fish, minerals and lumber. Industries found their way to the coastal islands, where they ignored native tribes and commenced what has become one the Pacific coast's most monstrous natural resource extraction campaigns. After almost a century of non-stop exploitation, the Haida people said "enough" and began to resist. Their audacious four-decade struggle involving the courts, human blockades, public testimony and the media became a living object lesson for communities in the same situation the world over.

Nature's Experts

Stephen Bocking

Author : Stephen Bocking
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0813533988

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Nature's Experts by Stephen Bocking Pdf

Annotation Explores the contributions and challenges presented when scientific authority enters the realm of environmental affairs. Practical examples and case studies illustrate that science must be relevant, credible, and democratic.

Water Wisdom

Alon Tal,Alfred Abed Rabbo

Author : Alon Tal,Alfred Abed Rabbo
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813547701

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Water Wisdom by Alon Tal,Alfred Abed Rabbo Pdf

"This comprehensive, informed, and balanced volume provides invaluable insights into the roots of the water management challenges in the Middle East and charts a course for resolving this pressing issue."--James D. Wolfensohn, former Quartet Special Envoy for Gaza.

Speaking of Animals

Robert Palmatier

Author : Robert Palmatier
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000047814193

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Speaking of Animals by Robert Palmatier Pdf

First dictionary of animal metaphors to be organized by metaphor rather than animal--comprehensive coverage, referenced.

Symbolic Caxton

William Kuskin

Author : William Kuskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Design
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124054094

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Symbolic Caxton by William Kuskin Pdf

In this fascinating read, William Kuskin argues that the development of print production is part of a larger social network involving the political, economic, and literary systems that produce the intangible constellations of identity and authority.

The Bears of Brooks Falls: Wildlife and Survival on Alaska's Brooks River

Michael Fitz

Author : Michael Fitz
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781682685112

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The Bears of Brooks Falls: Wildlife and Survival on Alaska's Brooks River by Michael Fitz Pdf

A natural history and celebration of the famous bears and salmon of Brooks River. On the Alaska Peninsula, where exceptional landscapes are commonplace, a small river attracts attention far beyond its scale. Each year, from summer to early fall, brown bears and salmon gather at Brooks River to create one of North America’s greatest wildlife spectacles. As the salmon leap from the cascade, dozens of bears are there to catch them (with as many as forty-three bears sighted in a single day), and thousands of people come to watch in person or on the National Park Service’s popular Brooks Falls Bearcam. The Bears of Brooks Falls tells the story of this region and the bears that made it famous in three parts. The first forms an ecological history of the region, from its dormancy 30,000 years ago to the volcanic events that transformed it into the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. The central and longest section is a deep dive into the lives of the wildlife along the Brooks River, especially the bears and salmon. Readers will learn about the bears’ winter hibernation, mating season, hunting rituals, migration patterns, and their relationship with Alaska’s changing environment. Finally, the book explores the human impact, both positive and negative, on this special region and its wild population.