Decolonizing Extinction
Title | Decolonizing Extinction PDF eBook |
Author | Juno Salazar Parreñas |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2018-08-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0822371944 |
In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human worlds at orangutan rehabilitation centers on Borneo. Parreñas tells the interweaving stories of wildlife workers and the centers' endangered animals while demonstrating the inseparability of risk and futurity from orangutan care. Drawing on anthropology, primatology, Southeast Asian history, gender studies, queer theory, and science and technology studies, Parreñas suggests that examining workers’ care for these semi-wild apes can serve as a basis for cultivating mutual but unequal vulnerability in an era of annihilation. Only by considering rehabilitation from perspectives thus far ignored, Parreñas contends, could conservation biology turn away from ultimately violent investments in population growth and embrace a feminist sense of welfare, even if it means experiencing loss and pain.
The Red Deal
Title | The Red Deal PDF eBook |
Author | The Red Nation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Climate change mitigation |
ISBN | 9781942173434 |
Introduction --Part 1.Divest : End the occupation --Part 2.Heal our bodies : Reinvest in our common humanity --Part 3 .Heal our planet: Reinvest in our common future --Our words are powerful, our knowledge is inevitable.
Against Extinction
Title | Against Extinction PDF eBook |
Author | William Mark Adams |
Publisher | Earthscan |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1849770417 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Extinction
Title | Extinction PDF eBook |
Author | Ashley Dawson |
Publisher | OR Books |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2016-08-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1682190412 |
Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely. Then human beings arrived. Devouring their way down the food chain as they spread across the planet, they began a process of voracious extinction that has continued to the present. Headlines today are made by the existential threat confronting remaining large animals such as rhinos and pandas. But the devastation summoned by humans extends to humbler realms of creatures including beetles, bats and butterflies. Researchers generally agree that the current extinction rate is nothing short of catastrophic. Currently the earth is losing about a hundred species every day. This relentless extinction, Ashley Dawson contends in a primer that combines vast scope with elegant precision, is the product of a global attack on the commons, the great trove of air, water, plants and creatures, as well as collectively created cultural forms such as language, that have been regarded traditionally as the inheritance of humanity as a whole. This attack has its genesis in the need for capital to expand relentlessly into all spheres of life. Extinction, Dawson argues, cannot be understood in isolation from a critique of our economic system. To achieve this we need to transgress the boundaries between science, environmentalism and radical politics. Extinction: A Radical History performs this task with both brio and brilliance.
From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion
Title | From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin J. Richardson |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2020-12-25 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1800881096 |
Across the world, millions of people are taking to the streets demanding urgent action on climate breakdown and other environmental emergencies. Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future and Climate Strikes are part of a new lexicon of environmental protest advocating civil disobedience to leverage change. This groundbreaking book – also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment – critically unveils the legal and political context of this new wave of eco-activisms. It illustrates how the practise of dissent builds on a long tradition of grassroots activism, such as the Anti-Nuclear movement, but brings into focus new participants, such as school children, and new distinctive aesthetic tactics, such as the mass ‘die-ins’ and ‘discobedience’ theatrics in public spaces.
Decolonizing Dialectics
Title | Decolonizing Dialectics PDF eBook |
Author | Geo Maher |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2017-01-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 082237370X |
Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy, however, as anticolonial thinkers have resisted the historical determinism, teleology, Eurocentrism, and singular emphasis that some Marxisms place on class identity at the expense of race, nation, and popular identity. In recent decades, the conflict between dialectics and postcolonial theory has only deepened. In Decolonizing Dialectics Geo Maher breaks this impasse by bringing the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a dialectics suited to the struggle against the legacies of colonialism and slavery. This is a decolonized dialectics premised on constant struggle in which progress must be fought for and where the struggles of the wretched of the earth themselves provide the only guarantee of historical motion.
Decolonizing "prehistory"
Title | Decolonizing "prehistory" PDF eBook |
Author | Gesa Mackenthun |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780816542291 |
Decolonizing "Prehistory"critically examines and challenges the paradoxical role that modern historical-archaeological scholarship plays in adding legitimacy to, but also delegitimizing, contemporary colonialist practices. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume empowers Indigenous voices and offers a nuanced understanding of the American deep past.