Environmental Activism
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This ppt deals with environmental activism & environmental terrorism, both how it is controlled and what effect it may have on legislation.
City-based citizenship (city-zenship) and its ecological ramifications increasingly inform people’s social and political lives, rendering the link between ecological citizenship and political city-zenship a topical subject for analysis.... more
Activism and advocacy have drawn academic interest as alternative ways of achieving collective ends outside established political institutions. However, there has been very little theoretical attention aimed at the interconnections... more
Exploration for copper intensified in the Junín area with the arrival of Bishimetals in the early 1990s. Junín is a community located in Intag, a 1,500 km 2 expanse of cloud forests and farms in northwestern Ecuador (Cotacachi County,... more
This paper uses systems thinking to explore the palm oil industry, particularly oil palm cultivation in Indonesia. Palm oil is a major commodity in global trade, but oil palm cultivation results in catastrophic environmental destruction.... more
The Introduction to this book is available here: https://www.academia.edu/34095644/Introduction_to_Materiality_and_the_Study_of_Religion_The_Body_of_St_Cuthbert.pdf Material culture has emerged in recent decades as a significant... more
Social movement theorists have often posited that religion and political activism are inherently opposed – that religion cannot liberate people from situations of social or political discontent in the same manner as activism. Through a... more
This documentary film on climate change takes hold despite the narrator and viewer.
Patagonia's 2014 documentary DamNation marks a compelling and unconventional milestone in the evolution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as public relations practice. The company drew from commercial acumen but also grassroots... more
This article examines how folk dance is deployed as an innovative tool of urban and rural contemporary protests in Turkey. It specifically focuses on horon, a popular folk dance genre characterised by the eastern Black Sea region and... more
The widespread use of social media has impacted various facets of life. While environmental groups once relied on local campaigns and traditional media to broadcast their messages, now social media has become a vehicle for their... more
"What Susan taught me through her words in Rural Hours is that intimacy is wasted if just felt interpersonally. She helped me realize that nature and the physical landscape can teach humans valuable truths about living in a community—if... more
In this text, I briefly analyse the ways in which environmental activism is being criminalised and treated as terrorism. I will illustrate the text with instances of such treatment from Romania, Italy, France, Greece, the UK and the US.... more
The 20th century ended with a “bang” in Puerto Rico, producing one of the most powerful and decisive massive demonstrations that the young 21st century first saw. Broadly, this paper will focus on the meaning and repercussions of the... more
"Questo saggio esamina gli effetti del disastro di Seveso attraverso lo sguardo di una grande ambientalista e femminista italiana: Laura Conti. Nel far ciò, mi muovo all’interno di due cornici metodologico-concettuali: il femminismo... more
Starting in April 2016, thousands of people, led by Standing Rock Sioux Tribal members, gathered at camps to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)—creating the #NoDAPL movement. I am concerned with how critics of... more
Based on nine years of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth ethnographic study of a transnational environmentalist federation and of activists themselves. The book presents an account of the daily life and the ethical... more
This article outlines and interrogates the neglected settler-colonial discourse of White Appalachians, in particular their construction of a White indigeneity. In order to justify occupation and reconcile themselves to the wider... more
Paganism, like every religion, is a complex mixture of concepts that can be used to either rationalize environmental neglect or encourage ecological harmony. Rather than characterizing Paganism, or any other religion, as “green” or “not... more
I have been working on a lesson plan designed to get young people excited about the ocean, excited about science and technology, excited about music, excited about literature, excited about Afrofuturism, and excited about environmental... more
Unitarian-Universalism and Mormonism differ in myriad ways. Mormonism obviously has much further to go toward embracing an ecological paradigm. There are some untapped resources in Mormonism which could be used to facilitate this shift,... more
Permaculture presents a powerful critique of the neo-liberal world order, and its techniques may support self-sufficiency and practical sovereignty. Nevertheless, two factors limit its radical potential: its practical flexibility, and the... more
Resource and environmental management generally entail an attempt by governing authorities to dominate, reroute, and tame the natural flows of water, the growth of forests, manage the populations of non-human bodies, and control nature... more
Although this book is about the newly emerging academic field of environmental communication, it is also about voice and practical activism. I contend that a deeply pragmatic form of environmental communication has the potential to... more
The ecological emergency can be described as a combination of four categories: climate change, degradation of biodiversity, increasing pollution and scarcity of natural resources. As a consequence of the industrial revolution, these... more
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Tanja Kohvakka, THE ROLE OF HISTORY TEACHERS IN QUESTIONING THE DOMINANT WAY OF HISTORY TEACHING IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA 2. Ángela Campos Fernandez, BREAD AND ROSES: THE ROLE OF ART IN POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES,... more
"Many people know about climate change, but few act to lessen their carbon footprint. In fact, the information we think we know about climate change and carbon footprints probably isn’t entirely accurate simply because we likely haven’t... more
From 1840 to the present, this critical analysis covers Maori land marches, Manapori Dam protest, logging protests, anti-nuclear activism (including the Rainbow Warrior), pesticide and herbicide (Agent Orange) protests, State asset... more
As wondrous lands are represented as “wastelands” to make way for urban and industrial development in Hawaiʻi, kūpuna or elders and cultural practitioners are currently building a movement across the islands to mobilize moʻolelo (stories... more
Julia Shaw (2016) Religion, ‘nature’ and environmental ethics in ancient India: archaeologies of human:non-human suffering and well-being in early Buddhist and Hindu contexts, World Archaeology, 48:4, 517-543... more