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Synopsis
Bron Raymond Taylor is Associate Professor of Religion and Social Ethics and Director of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He is the author of Affirmative Action at Work: Law, Politics, and Ethics and has published numerous articles about the religion, politics, and ethics of radical environmentalism.
Synopsis
Ecological resistance movements are proliferating around the world. Some are explicitly radical in their ideas and militant in their tactics while others have emerged from a variety of social movements that, in response to environmental deterioration, have taken up ecological sustainability as a central objective. This book brings together a team of international scholars to examine contemporary movements of ecological resistance. The first four sections focus on the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, and Europe, and the book concludes with a selection of articles that address the philosophical and moral issues these movements pose, assess trends found among them, and evaluate their impacts and prospects. Among the many contributors to the volume are Daniel Deudney, Robert Edwards, Heidi Hadsell, Sheldon Kamieniecki, Lois Lorentzen, David Rothenberg, Wolfgang Rudig, Jerry Stark, Paul Wapner, and Ben Wisner.]
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-405) and index.
Table of Contents
Earth first! and global narratives of popular ecological resistance -- With liberty and environmental justice for all: the emergence and challenge of grassroots environmentalism in the United States -- Bread and soil of our dreams: women the environment, and sustainable development--case studies from Central America -- Profits, parrots, peons: ethical perplexities in the Amazon -- International native resistance to the new resource wars -- Visitors to the commons: approaching Thailand's "environmental" struggles from a Western starting point -- Grassroots environmental resistance in India -- Popular environmentalists in the Philippines: people's claims to natural resources -- Grassroots resistance to dominant land-use patterns in Southern Africa -- Luta, livelihood, and lifeworld in contemporary Africa -- Have a friend for lunch: Norwegian radical ecology versus tradition -- Between moderation and marginalization: environmental radicalism in Britain -- Popular resistance and the emergence of radical environmentalism in Scotland -- Postmodern environmentalism: a critique of deep ecology -- In search of Gaian politics: Earth religion's challenge to modern Western civilization -- In defense of banner hangers: the dark green politics of Greenpeace -- The effectiveness of radical environmentalists -- Popular ecological resistance and radical environmentalism.