Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores reasons for continuing coal dependence, and this can be overcome. Documenting efforts to halt mining in India, Germany, and Australia, it provid…
"Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific source of greenhouse gas emissions. It documents efforts at halting coal production, foc…
The global contest over coal and development -- India : coercion, impunity and the fight for Adivasi rights in Chhattisgarh -- Australia : contesting coal capital on the Liverpool Plains -- Germany : globalizing the local to reach the national, protest against coal in the Lausit…
"Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific source of greenhouse gas emissions. It documents efforts at halting coal production, foc…
"Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, yet global coal production has almost doubled over the last 20 years. This book explores how the world can stop mining coal - the most prolific source of greenhouse gas emissions. It documents efforts at halting coal production, foc…
by Barbalet, Jack, Hochschild, Arlie Russell, Wouters, Cas, Goodman, James, Williams, Simon J., Illouz, Eva, Scheff, Thomas J., Wilf, Eitan, Becker, Patrick, Munoz, Beatriz, DEMERTZIS, NICOLAS, Döveling, Katrin, Flam, Helena, Kleres, Jochen, Kuzmics, Helmut
"The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies provides diverse and cutting-edge perspectives on this fast-changing field. For thirty years the world has been caught in a long global interregnum, plunging from one crisis to the next and witnessing the emergence of new,…
This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, defined as a contemporary form of capitalism, it describ…
Are political activists connected to the global justice movement simplistically opposed to neoliberal globalization? Is their political vision 'incoherent' and their policy proposals 'naive' and 'superficial' as is often claimed by the mainstream media? Drawing on dozens of inte…
Drawing on dozens of interviews and rich textual analyses involving nearly fifty global justice organizations linked to the World Social Forum, the authors of this study present a compelling case that the global justice movement has actually fashioned a new political ideology wi…
Drawing on dozens of interviews and rich textual analyses involving nearly fifty global justice organizations linked to the World Social Forum, the authors of this study present a compelling case that the global justice movement has actually fashioned a new political ideology wi…
Drawing on dozens of interviews and rich textual analyses involving nearly fifty global justice organizations linked to the World Social Forum, the authors of this study present a compelling case that the global justice movement has actually fashioned a new political ideology wi…
