Sustaining The West

Author : Liza Piper,Lisa Szabo-Jones
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554589258

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Western Canada’s natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change. The complex nature of the problems being addressed calls for productive interdisciplinary solutions. In this book, arts and humanities scholars and literary and visual artists tackle these pressing environmental issues in provocative and transformative ways. Their commitment to environmental causes emerges through the fields of environmental history, environmental and ecocriticism, ecofeminism, ecoart, ecopoetry, and environmental journalism. This indispensable and timely resource constitutes a sustained cross-pollinating conversation across the environmental humanities about forms of representation and activism that enable ecological knowledge and ethical action on behalf of Western Canadian environments, yet have global reach. Among the developments in the contributors’ construction of environmental knowledge are a focus on the power of sentiment in linking people to the fate of nature, and the need to decolonize social and environmental relations and assumptions in the West.

Author : Liza Piper,Lisa Szabo-Jones
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554589241

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Sustaining the West by Liza Piper,Lisa Szabo-Jones Pdf

Western Canada’s natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most recently the negative effects of global climate change. The complex nature of the problems being addressed calls for productive interdisciplinary solutions. In this book, arts and humanities scholars and literary and visual artists tackle these pressing environmental issues in provocative and transformative ways. Their commitment to environmental causes emerges through the fields of environmental history, environmental and ecocriticism, ecofeminism, ecoart, ecopoetry, and environmental journalism. This indispensable and timely resource constitutes a sustained cross-pollinating conversation across the environmental humanities about forms of representation and activism that enable ecological knowledge and ethical action on behalf of Western Canadian environments, yet have global reach. Among the developments in the contributors’ construction of environmental knowledge are a focus on the power of sentiment in linking people to the fate of nature, and the need to decolonize social and environmental relations and assumptions in the West.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aspen
ISBN : UIUC:30112048244542

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Sustaining Aspen in Western Landscapes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1566 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN : WISC:89046335493

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Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Clapperton,Liza Piper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Environmental justice
ISBN : 1773850040

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Environmental Activism on the Ground by Jonathan Clapperton,Liza Piper Pdf

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 environmentalism in Canada, the United States, and beyond. This collection considers the different ways in which Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists have worked to achieve significant change. It examines attempts to resist exploitative and damaging resource developments, and the establishment of parks, heritage sites, and protected areas that recognize the indivisibility of cultural and natural resources. It pays special attention to the thriving environmentalism of the 1960s through the 1980s, an era which saw the rise of major organizations such as Greenpeace along with the flourishing of local and community-based environmental activism. Environmental Activism on the Ground emphasizes the effects of local and Indigenous activism, offering lessons and directions from the ground up. It demonstrates that the modern environmental movement has been as much a small-scale, ordinary activity as a large-scale, elite one.

Author : David M. Wrobel
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700618231

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Promised Lands by David M. Wrobel Pdf

Whether seen as a land of opportunity or as paradise lost, the American West took shape in the nation's imagination with the help of those who wrote about it; but two groups who did much to shape that perception are often overlooked today. Promoters trying to lure settlers and investors to the West insisted that the frontier had already been tamed-that the only frontiers remaining were those of opportunity. Through posters, pamphlets, newspaper articles, and other printed pieces, these boosters literally imagined places into existence by depicting backwater areas as settled, culturally developed regions where newcomers would find none of the hardships associated with frontier life. Quick on their heels, some of the West's original settlers had begun publishing their reminiscences in books and periodicals and banding together in pioneer societies to sustain their conception of frontier heritage. Their selective memory focused on the savage wilderness they had tamed, exaggerating the past every bit as much as promoters exaggerated the present. Although they are generally seen today as unscrupulous charlatans and tellers of tall tales, David Wrobel reveals that these promoters and reminiscers were more significant than their detractors have suggested. By exploring the vast literature produced by these individuals from the end of the Civil War through the 1920s, he clarifies the pivotal impact of their works on our vision of both the historic and mythic West. In examining their role in forging both sense of place within the West and the nation's sense of the West as a place, Wrobel shows that these works were vital to the process of identity formation among westerners themselves and to the construction of a "West" in the national imagination. Wrobel also sheds light on the often elitist, sometimes racist legacies of both groups through their characterizations of Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans. In the era Wrobel examines, promoters painted the future of each western place as if it were already present, while the old-timers preserved the past as if it were still present. But, as he also demonstrates, that West has not really changed much: promoters still tout its promise, while old-timers still try to preserve their selective memories. Even relatively recent western residents still tap into the region's mythic pioneer heritage as they form their attachments to place. Promised Lands shows us that the West may well move into the twenty-first century, but our images of it are forever rooted in the nineteenth.

Author : Winin Pereira,Jeremy Seabrook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134062461

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Asking the Earth by Winin Pereira,Jeremy Seabrook Pdf

The need to produce food without the destructive chemical horrors of much modern farming, for an intelligent use of dwindling natural resources and for humane forms of production is universal, the practice is limited. This book is an account of one, large, instance of success in practice. Twenty-five years ago, Winin Pereira, a nuclear physicist abandoned academia to start a co-operative farm at Alonde in a tribal area north of Bombay. The group experienced, and finally discarded, all the false hopes and promises of Western originated forms of development: ploughs that ploughed too deep, irrigation systems that lowered water tables, fertilizers and pesticides which managed the earth and became so expensive that poorer farmers were dispossessed. Instead they learnt from the adivasai, or tribal people, who have nurtured or been nurtured by foresets for millennia, ways of applying popular knowledge to contemporary problems. This book is a combination of Pereira's record of achievement of sustainable livelihoods and an account of the farm and its effect on the India around it by a leading British journalist. Originally published in 1991

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060119190

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West's Pacific Digest, Beginning 367 P.2d by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael A Malec
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136823312

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Social Roles Of Sport In Carib by Michael A Malec Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Mormons
ISBN : WISC:89067426379

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Saints Herald by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrey Makarychev,Alexandra Yatsyk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315457321

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Vocabularies of International Relations After the Crisis in Ukraine by Andrey Makarychev,Alexandra Yatsyk Pdf

The conflict in Ukraine and Russia's annexation of Crimea has undoubtedly been a pivotal moment for policy makers and military planners in Europe and beyond. Many analysts see an unexpected character in the conflict and expect negative reverberations and a long-lasting period of turbulence and uncertainty, the de-legitimation of international institutions and a declining role for global norms and rules. Did these events bring substantial correctives and modifications to the extant conceptualization of International Relations? Does the conflict significantly alter previous assumptions and foster a new academic vocabulary, or, does it confirm the validity of well-established schools of thought in international relations? Has the crisis in Ukraine confirmed the vitality and academic vigour of conventional concepts? These questions are the starting points for this book covering conceptualisations from rationalist to reflectivist, and from quantitative to qualitative. Most contributors agree that many of the old concepts, such as multi-polarity, spheres of influence, sovereignty, or even containment, are still cognitively valid, yet believe the eruption of the crisis means that they are now used in different contexts and thus infused with different meanings. It is these multiple, conceptual languages that the volume puts at the centre of its analysis. This text will be of great interest to students and scholars studying international relations, politics, and Russian and Ukrainian studies.

Author : William Riebsame Travis
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781597266147

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New Geographies of the American West by William Riebsame Travis Pdf

Reconciling explosive growth with often majestic landscape defines New Geographies of the American West. Geographer William Travis examines contemporary land use changes and development patterns from the Mississippi to the Pacific, and assesses the ecological and social outcomes of Western development. Unlike previous "boom" periods dependent on oil or gold, the modern population explosion in the West reflects a sustained passion for living in this specific landscape. But the encroaching exurbs, ranchettes, and ski resorts are slicing away at the very environment that Westerners cherish. Efforts to manage growth in the West are usually stymied at the state and local levels. Is it possible to improve development patterns within the West's traditional anti-planning, pro-growth milieu, or is a new model needed? Can the region develop sustainably, protecting and managing its defining wildness, while benefiting from it, too? Travis takes up the challenge , suggesting that functional and attractive settlement can be embedded in preserved lands, working landscapes, and healthy ecologies.

Author : Dorothy Christian,Rita Wong
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781771122153

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downstream by Dorothy Christian,Rita Wong Pdf

downstream: reimagining water brings together artists, writers, scientists, scholars, environmentalists, and activists who understand that our shared human need for clean water is crucial to building peace and good relationships with one another and the planet. This book explores the key roles that culture, arts, and the humanities play in supporting healthy water-based ecology and provides local, global, and Indigenous perspectives on water that help to guide our societies in a time of global warming. The contributions range from practical to visionary, and each of the four sections closes with a poem to encourage personal freedom along with collective care. This book contributes to the formation of an intergenerational, culturally inclusive, participatory water ethic. Such an ethic arises from intellectual courage, spiritual responsibilities, practical knowledge, and deep appreciation for human dependence on water for a meaningful quality of life. Downstream illuminates how water teaches us interdependence with other humans and living creatures, both near and far.

Author : Phil Henry
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472512550

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Adaptation and Developments in Western Buddhism by Phil Henry Pdf

Benchmark analysis of the extent of shifting contemporaryengagement and practice of UK Buddhist communities, which challenges thestereotype of other-worldly Buddhist asceticism.

Author : Adrian J. Ivakhiv
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781554589067

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Ecologies of the Moving Image by Adrian J. Ivakhiv Pdf

This book presents an ecophilosophy of cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to the lived ecologies – material, social, and perceptual relations – within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. If cinema takes us on mental and emotional journeys, the author argues that those journeys that have reshaped our understanding of ourselves, life, and the Earth and universe. A range of styles are examined, from ethnographic and wildlife documentaries, westerns and road movies, sci-fi blockbusters and eco-disaster films to the experimental and art films of Tarkovsky, Herzog, Malick, and Brakhage, to YouTube’s expanding audio-visual universe.