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Joan Martínez-Alier - Land, Water, Air and Freedom, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Land, Water, Air and Freedom

The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice

Av Joan Martínez-Alier

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Beskrivning
This ground-breaking book makes visible the global counter-movement for environmental justice, combining ecological economics and political ecology. Using 500 in-depth empirical analyses from the Atlas of Environmental Justice, Martínez-Alier analyses the commonalities shared by environmental defenders and offenders respectively. Each narrative emphasizes the diverse vocabularies, iconographies, and valuation languages of poor and Indigenous activists without losing sight of the global scale of climate action and biodiversity loss. Revealing the circularity gap at the centre of the industrial economy, the book focuses on the frontiers of commodity extraction and waste disposal. Alongside exploring protagonists and geographies of resistance, chapters delve into corporate irresponsibility, unequal trade, and feminist neo-Malthusianism. Although grassroots movements for socio-economic sustainability are deeply diverse, there are global patterns of action and empowerment. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of environmental social sciences and humanities, anthropology, geography, international relations, and ecology. It will also help activists engaged in the movements for environmental justice.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-12-22
  • Mått: 169 x 244 x undefined mm
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Förlag: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781035312764
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Joan Martínez-Alier, Professor of Economics and Economic History, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, recipient of the Balzan Prize in 2020 and the Holberg Prize in 2023

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‘Land, Water, Air and Freedom by Joan Martínez-Alier covers global, comparative political ecology and delves into the intricate web of environmental justice movements unfolding across the globe. As a distinguished Professor of Economics and Economic History and author of a plethora of texts on topics such as social metabolism, environmentalism, environmental justice, environmental conflicts, and movements, Martínez-Alier brings a wealth of expertise to the table. In this book, he challenges the notion that the environmental struggle is the reserve of the white, middle-class of core countries and shows a growing number of environmental movements initiated by poor and indigenous peoples. [...] The one aspect of the book I cannot emphasise enough is how all-encompassing, in terms of geography and themes, the book really is. It is indeed a comprehensive global review of environmental activism. If we add the fact that both the book and the EJAtlas are completely free, I see no reason not to recommend both wholeheartedly.’

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