The Pursuit Of Ecotopia

Author : E. N. Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780313381317

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The world environmental and social justice crises brought on by our high-throughput global economy can be ameliorated only if we adapt the pragmatic ethics of social cohesion in traditional societies to the modern world. Traditional societies have much to teach the modern world about conservation and environmental management. The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World argues that the root of our environmental crisis is that we have not devised modern ways to induce people with diverse interests to think and act cooperatively to secure shared interests. We take a short-term, narrow view of resource management and ethical conduct instead of a long-term, global view of "ecotopia"—a conception in which the destructive corollaries of consumerism are curbed by emotionally grounded policies and ethics of sustainability, social justice, and stewardship. In this controversial and brilliantly written book, author E. N. Anderson maintains that the world can escape impending ecological disaster only by embracing a political and ethical transformation that will imbue modern societies with the same shared sense of emotional rationality practiced by traditional cultures. He draws lessons from ecologically successful traditional societies—and also draws cautionary tales from traditional societies that have responded maladaptively to disruption and failed ecologically as a result.

Author : E. N. Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9798216134534

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The world environmental and social justice crises brought on by our high-throughput global economy can be ameliorated only if we adapt the pragmatic ethics of social cohesion in traditional societies to the modern world. Traditional societies have much to teach the modern world about conservation and environmental management. The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World argues that the root of our environmental crisis is that we have not devised modern ways to induce people with diverse interests to think and act cooperatively to secure shared interests. We take a short-term, narrow view of resource management and ethical conduct instead of a long-term, global view of "ecotopia"—a conception in which the destructive corollaries of consumerism are curbed by emotionally grounded policies and ethics of sustainability, social justice, and stewardship. In this controversial and brilliantly written book, author E. N. Anderson maintains that the world can escape impending ecological disaster only by embracing a political and ethical transformation that will imbue modern societies with the same shared sense of emotional rationality practiced by traditional cultures. He draws lessons from ecologically successful traditional societies—and also draws cautionary tales from traditional societies that have responded maladaptively to disruption and failed ecologically as a result.

Author : Joshua Lockyer,James R. Veteto
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780857458803

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Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia by Joshua Lockyer,James R. Veteto Pdf

In order to move global society towards a sustainable “ecotopia,” solutions must be engaged in specific places and communities, and the authors here argue for re-orienting environmental anthropology from a problem-oriented towards a solutions-focused endeavor. Using case studies from around the world, the contributors—scholar-activists and activist-practitioners— examine the interrelationships between three prominent environmental social movements: bioregionalism, a worldview and political ecology that grounds environmental action and experience; permaculture, a design science for putting the bioregional vision into action; and ecovillages, the ever-dynamic settings for creating sustainable local cultures.

Author : Ernest Callenbach
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307574565

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Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach Pdf

A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet . . . and our future. Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a “stable-state” ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, this isolated, mysterious nation is welcoming its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston. Skeptical yet curious about this green new world, Weston is determined to report his findings objectively. But from the start, he’s alternately impressed and unsettled by the laws governing Ecotopia’s earth-friendly agenda: energy-efficient “mini-cities” to eliminate urban sprawl, zero-tolerance pollution control, tree worship, ritual war games, and a woman-dominated government that has instituted such peaceful revolutions as the twenty-hour workweek and employee ownership of farms and businesses. His old beliefs challenged, his cynicism replaced by hope, Weston meets a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman and undertakes a relationship whose intensity will lead him to a critical choice between two worlds.

Author : Nik Janos,Corina McKendry
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295749372

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Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice by Nik Janos,Corina McKendry Pdf

In Portland’s harbor, environmental justice groups challenge the EPA for a more thorough cleanup of the Willamette River. Near Olympia, the Puyallup assert their tribal sovereignty and treaty rights to fish. Seattle housing activists demand that Amazon pay to address the affordability crisis it helped create. Urban Cascadia, the infrastructure, social networks, built environments, and non-human animals and plants that are interconnected in the increasingly urbanized bioregion that surrounds Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, enjoys a reputation for progressive ambitions and forward-thinking green urbanism. Yet legacies of settler colonialism and environmental inequalities contradict these ambitions, even as people strive to achieve those progressive ideals. In this edited volume, historians, geographers, urbanists, and other scholars critically examine these contradictions to better understand the capitalist urbanization of nature, the creation of social and environmental inequalities, and the movements to fight for social and environmental justice. Neither a story of green disillusion nor one of green boosterism, Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice reveals how the region can address broader issues of environmental justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and the politics of environmental change.

Author : Nathanaël Wallenhorst,Renaud Hétier,Jean-Philippe Pierron,Christoph Wulf
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031400216

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Political Education in the Anthropocene by Nathanaël Wallenhorst,Renaud Hétier,Jean-Philippe Pierron,Christoph Wulf Pdf

This book articulates an educational theory as well as a political theory of the Anthropocene. Divided into three sections it addresses educational anthropology, cultures and institutions, and educational recommendations in the Anthropocene. Topics covered in the volume measure the impact of the idea of the Anthropocene on the type of anthropology that underlies education and on a phenomenology of relationship. It links the notion of the Anthropocene with cultures and institutions so as not to 'smooth out' or erase the latter. Finally, it presents proposals and recommendations for educational practices. The work advocates rethinking education as an essential component in ensuring the sustainability of human life in society - by proposing to go beyond the approach of education for sustainable development or environmental education. The work also brings together empirical contributions in which proposals are elaborated for programs, pedagogical devices and experiments relating to the preparation of the future in the field of education. This volume is of interest to researchers of the Anthropocene.

Author : Ernest Callenbach
Publisher : Heyday
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015059216732

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Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach Pdf

Classic novel portraying a humane and joyous sustainable state in America.

Author : Melinda Bollar Wagner
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813197746

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Power and Place by Melinda Bollar Wagner Pdf

Rural life and culture hold a practical and symbolic importance in American society. A central tenet of the survival of our cherished values—and of ourselves as a species—is the stewardship of cultural diversity and the places that foster it, like rural America. These may be the places that teach us to use land to make a living and to make a life, to forge and carry on our identities, and to feel history. They may yield a harvest of policies for managing an environmental balancing act that will preserve essential resources for America's children's children. Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture War over Land examines the ongoing culture wars that pit conservation against economic progress. For author Melinda Bollar Wagner, what began as a study of Appalachia's long-standing and continuing status as an energy sacrifice zone evolved into a twenty-four-year research project that sheds new light on the physical and emotional parameters of cultural attachment to land. Drawing on interviews with more than 220 residents from ten communities in five Appalachian counties, Power and Place gives voice to rural citizens whose place at the table is far from assured with regard to critical energy, environmental, and infrastructure decisions.

Author : Ernest Callenbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8876158065

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Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach Pdf

Author : Helen Kopnina,Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136658556

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Environmental Anthropology Today by Helen Kopnina,Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet Pdf

Today, we face some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history. Understanding the damage being done and the varied ethics and efforts contributing to its repair is of vital importance. This volume poses the question: What can increasing the emphasis on the environment in environmental anthropology, along with the science of its problems and the theoretical and methodological tools of anthropological practice, do to aid conservation efforts, policy initiatives, and our overall understanding of how to survive as citizens of the planet? Environmental Anthropology Today combines a range of new ethnographic work with chapters exploring key theoretical and methodological issues, and draws on disciplines such as sociology and environmental science as well as anthropology to illuminate those issues. The case studies include work on North America, Europe, India, Africa, Asia, and South America, offering the reader a stimulating and thoughtful survey of the work currently being conducted in the field.

Author : Jenny Banh,Haiming Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429938894

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American Chinese Restaurants by Jenny Banh,Haiming Liu Pdf

With case studies from the USA, Canada, Chile, and other countries in Latin America, American Chinese Restaurants examines the lived experiences of what it is like to work in a Chinese restaurant. The book provides ethnographic insights on small family businesses, struggling immigrant parents, and kids working, living, and growing up in an American Chinese restaurant. This is the first book based on personal histories to document and analyze the American Chinese restaurant world. New narratives by various international and American contributors have presented Chinese restaurants as dynamic agencies that raise questions on identity, ethnicity, transnationalism, industrialization, (post)modernity, assimilation, public and civic spheres, and socioeconomic differences. American Chinese Restaurants will be of interest to general readers, scholars, and college students from undergraduate to graduate level, who wish to know Chinese restaurant life and understand the relationship between food and society.

Author : Paul Freedman,Joyce E. Chaplin,Ken Albala
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520283589

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Food in Time and Place by Paul Freedman,Joyce E. Chaplin,Ken Albala Pdf

Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foundational part of social and cultural histories. Such topics as famines, food supply, nutrition, and public health are addressed by historians specializing in every era and every nation. Food in Time and Place delivers an unprecedented review of the state of historical research on food, endorsed by the American Historical Association, providing readers with a geographically, chronologically, and topically broad understanding of food cultures—from ancient Mediterranean and medieval societies to France and its domination of haute cuisine. Teachers, students, and scholars in food history will appreciate coverage of different thematic concerns, such as transfers of crops, conquest, colonization, immigration, and modern forms of globalization.

Author : Helen Kopnina,Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135044138

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Environmental Anthropology by Helen Kopnina,Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet Pdf

This volume presents new theoretical approaches, methodologies, subject pools, and topics in the field of environmental anthropology. Environmental anthropologists are increasingly focusing on self-reflection - not just on themselves and their impacts on environmental research, but also on the reflexive qualities of their subjects, and the extent to which these individuals are questioning their own environmental behavior. Here, contributors confront the very notion of "natural resources" in granting non-human species their subjectivity and arguing for deeper understanding of "nature," and "wilderness" beyond the label of "ecosystem services." By engaging in interdisciplinary efforts, these anthropologists present new ways for their colleagues, subjects, peers and communities to understand the causes of, and alternatives to environmental destruction. This book demonstrates that environmental anthropology has moved beyond the construction of rural, small group theory, entering into a mode of solution-based methodologies and interdisciplinary theories for understanding human-environmental interactions. It is focused on post-rural existence, health and environmental risk assessment, on the realm of alternative actions, and emphasizes the necessary steps towards preventing environmental crisis.

Author : E. N. Anderson,Barbara A. Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666918717

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Sustaining Social Conflict by E. N. Anderson,Barbara A. Anderson Pdf

This book examines the roots of hatred, genocide, and mass murder in psychology, history, politics, and economics, including the funding of destructive political campaigns. It provides solutions grounded in moral philosophy as well as possible legal measures.

Author : E N Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781315432489

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Caring for Place by E N Anderson Pdf

How can cultural forms motivate people to care about their environment? While important scientific data about ecosystems is mushrooming, E. N. Anderson argues in this powerful new book that putting effective conservation into practice depends primarily on social solidarity and emotional factors. Marshaling decades of research on cultures across several continents, he shows how societies have been more or less successful in sustainably managing their environments based on collective engagements such as religion, art, song, myth, and story. This provocative and deeply felt book by a leading writer and scholar in human ecology and anthropology will be read and debated widely for years to come.