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political philosophy. through Hobbesian, Kantian, and Hegelian political philosophy in turn. The use of each philosopher While this book makes for a dense reading, it begins is supported through reflections ... select chapters of it, would also be valuable for graduate seminars on political ecology, environmental politics, or eco philosophy. RefRencs c ited 2001 Globalization and the “spatial fix
dry up completely into hard-pacskyesdtem of social, political, economic, and ecological clay in the dry season, which lasts four tocfoimveponents. Water is not the answer to all of the months (Ford 1996
for local management input and channeling authority to outside experts. The paper explores an alternative cultural-historical approach that integrates historical and political ecological insights by
philosophy of a world becoming can inspire to answer some of the complex environmental questions asked today by enabling more flexible management regimes in the future. ... , actually perpetuating healthy and biota - conserved by the western world meetsgtuhlel population(sHunn 2003; Monteith 2007). Inuit philosophy of pinngortitaq? The latter study concluded that the techniques
tradition of political ecology, with an emphasis on “place, nature, and history”: “an ethnographic focus on one locality; a serious engagement with ecology; and a deeply historical approach” (p. 6). The ... author emphasizes that, while she strives to pay “equal attention to political economy and ecology,” her focus is on “policy processes and their role in landscape change” (p. 8). Reviewed by Prakash
they also depicted the new artist as someone capable of withstanding or even mastering these shocks and transforming them into instruments of political action. Appearing as they did in the newspaper
center is the story Gálvez weaves around the changing political and social life and inequalities around and within farming systems in Mexico. The global rise in status of Mexican food has allowed the ... the U.S., tracing the social and political life of foodways (Galt 2013) . The result is a book that draws on a variety of sources including ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and the U.S., policy papers
social, economic, political and environmental context to identify sources of community vulnerability. This research highlights the value of exploring local religious beliefs and practices when assessing ... community level adaptation political change, and shifts in global biophystiocarleduce the uncertainties of rainfall variability systems have affected expected climate risks, altaenrdedcontrol what is seen as
are to sort out the relative strengths and potential contributions of the several research traditions in human ecology (e.g., cultural ecology, historical ecology, political ecology, etc.). ... 2000) . The methods em- lectivism, qualitative analyses, and political, cultural ployed have likewise proliferated, and now include or interpretive emphases which sometimes take a game theory (Ruttan
impacts within issues that occur at multiple levels of analysis, such as global monetary policy, national energy development and tourism de-centralization, and the political economics of local communities. ... (that is, at the level of trade and consumption) economic and political relations between nations are increasingly framed by a sort of ‘cultural convergence’, where a set of values emerges across a range
complex informational needs critical to the political-economic evolution of the State. Specifically, technology, strategy, chain of command and battlefield tactics increasingly require improvements in ... improvements in information quantity, quality and analysis. Can a system designed for achieving and maintaining a long-term political consensus also make and carry out decisions inevitably marked by urgency
approaches that ignore the broader social and political scales of resource inequalities. We find that water provisioning often requires coordination of activities at broader sociospatial and sociopolitical ... unsustainable (Casey 2005). Why are communities in Honduras struggling to obtain safe and clean water? izing the sociospatial constructs that actors develop and deploy in different political and economic contexts
government collapsed at the end of the Great War, Berliners took notice of a placard asking “What is Dada? An art? A philosophy? A fire extinguisher? Or a state religion? Is Dada actually energy? or is it ... whimsical rogues’ gallery is one example; the political photomontages of John Heartfield are another, persisting beyond Dada as trenchant repudiation of the Third Reich. But before such a large target
delved into all manner of definitions — ideological, stylistic, formal—allowing for political and social contexts, as well as literary and philosophical considerations. Yet how Dada functioned as an art ... form, a modernist movement, or political manifestation, generally defines Dada in terms that seem to exist beyond Dada, rather than in terms of what is unique to it. Pondering the question with which
say that in our view the premises for revolution, on the cultural as well as the strictly political level, are not only ripe, they have begun to rot” (Debord and Wolman 14). 5 Debord’s definition of ... distributed at the Festum Fluxorum in Düsseldorf in February 1963. There he railed against “bourgeois sickness,” and called for a “flood and tide in art,” to be led by a cadre of “cultural, social and political
political realm, by writing to representatives or attending hearings (also called “activists”); and 4) those who act via demonstrations, civil disobedience, or “direct action” such as blocking logging ... 30 75 80 29 94 60 27 14 “I care about the environment.” or “I have stronger environmental values than some people I know.” “I don’t care about the environment.” (rare) “I don’t act in the political
philosophy b. Enlightenment c. Modernity d. Postmodernity 2. non-Western a. Eastern contributions b. ‘traditional’ societies B. Contributions and concepts from various disciplines 1. evolutionary epistemology ... . information theory 6. semiotics 7. linguistics 8. noösphere 9. utopias/dystopias and speculative fictions: the big picture 10. political economy a. fetishization of commodities and money b. economic
anthropologfiostrs finding common ground from which to unite can play a pivotal role. A few overarchinprgoponents of either the ecocentric philosophy or the themes dominate: human overpopulationa n,thropocentric ... philosophy. There has been a historic taking a practical and balanced approach dtiovide between these two schools of thought but the conservation, and extending conservation concemrnosdern capitalist economy
contemporary coastal issues in theThe book’s political emphasis provides a U.S., include the Florida Keys (a marine sanctuary experiencing pressure from recreational users)r,etfhreeshing angle from which to ... involvdeedv,einlopment’ philosophy borne out of the 1992 some form, in coastal management. ConsequentElya,rth Summit, the committee has developed “recthe book is applied in focus and directed
In Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades, anthropologist Laura Ogden traces the lives of poor, rural whites called gladesmen through the hidden cultural, political, and ... ecological history of the Florida Everglades. She invites the reader to imagine a world of mythological outlaws, giant reptiles, political intrigue, conservation, and rural life in order to reveal how