"Combines rigorous analysis and deft storytelling of the struggle to define the contours of the Wilderness Act when the Kennecott Copper Corporation announced its plan to develop an open-pit mine in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area"
"Combines rigorous analysis and deft storytelling of the struggle to define the contours of the Wilderness Act when the Kennecott Copper Corporation announced its plan to develop an open-pit mine in the Glacier Peak Wilderness Area"--
An Open Pit Visible from the Moon tells the story of this historic struggle to define the contours of the Wilderness Act--its possibilities and limits. Combining rigorous analysis and deft storytelling, Adam M. Sowards re-creates the contest between Kennecott and its shareholder…
Anthropos and the material
by Harvey, Penelope, Krohn-Hansen, Christian, Nustad, Knut G.
Anthropos and the material
The destructive effects of modern industrial societies have shaped the planet in such profound ways that many argue for the existence of a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. This claim brings into relief a set of challenges that have deep implications for how relation…
Anthropos and the material
The destructive effects of modern industrial societies have shaped the planet in such profound ways that many argue for the existence of a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. This claim brings into relief a set of challenges that have deep implications for how relation…
Anthropos and the material
Anthropos and the material
The destructive effects of modern industrial societies have shaped the planet in such profound ways that many argue for the existence of a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. This claim brings into relief a set of challenges that have deep implications for how relation…
Anthropos and the material
Presenting ethnographic case studies from across the globe, the contributors to Anthropos and the Material question and complicate long-held understandings of the divide between humans and things by examining encounters between the human and the nonhuman in numerous social, cult…
"Since the early 2000s, authoritarianism has risen as an increasingly powerful global phenomenon. This shift has not only social and political implications, but environmental implications too: authoritarian leaders seek to recast the relationship between society and the governme…
Reforestation of waste lands and "environmental statehood" in nineteenth century Prussia / Jawad Daheur -- Red and green all over: counterinsurgency and conservation in the jungles of Cold War Guatemala / Tony Andersson -- Hydroelectric dams and the rise of environmentalism unde…
Since the early 2000s, authoritarianism has risen as an increasingly powerful global phenomenon. This shift has not only social and political implications, but also environmental implications: authoritarian leaders seek to recast the relationship between society and the governme…
"Since the early 2000s, authoritarianism has risen as an increasingly powerful global phenomenon. This shift has not only social and political implications, but environmental implications too: authoritarian leaders seek to recast the relationship between society and the governme…
"Since the early 2000s, authoritarianism has risen as an increasingly powerful global phenomenon. This shift has not only social and political implications, but environmental implications too: authoritarian leaders seek to recast the relationship between society and the governme…
"At the beginning of the 21st century, both the crisis of liberal democracy, as visible in the rise of far-right actors in Europe and the alt-right phenomenon in the United States, and environmental crises, from declining biodiversity to climate change, are increasingly in the p…