Exxon and the Crandon Mine Controversy
Exxon and the Crandon Mine Controversy

Author: Michael O'Brien

Publisher: Badger Books Inc.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 193254237X

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This is a true story of how groups of people organized to preserve the environment and defeated gigantic mining companies. Native Americans, sports people, environmental groups, lake and property owners and ordinary citizens prevented a copper and zinc mine that threatened the environment.

Life and Death Matters
Life and Death Matters

Author: Barbara Rose Johnston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-03

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 131542536X

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The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding how crises emerge and how different groups of actors respond to them. This second edition, fully updated with both expanded and new chapters, once again provides a benchmark for the field and opens important pathways for further research. Authors reassess the state of scholarship and grassroots activism in a new century when social and environmental systems are being reconceptualised within post-9/11 security and biosecurity frameworks, when global warming and resource scarcity are not fears but realities, when global power and politics are being realigned, and when ecocide, ethnocide, and genocide are daily tragedies. This bold new edition of Life and Death Matters will be a widely used textbook and essential reading for students, scholars, and policy makers.

Reclaiming the Environmental Debate
Reclaiming the Environmental Debate

Author: Richard Hofrichter

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780262581820

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Reflecting a diversity of voices and critical perspectives, the essays in this book range from critiques of traditional thinking and practices to strategies for shifting public consciousness to create healthy communities.

In the Way of Development
In the Way of Development

Author: Mario Blaser

Publisher: IDRC

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1552500047

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Authored as a result of a remarkable collaboration between indigenous people's own leaders, other social activists and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this volume explores what is happening today to indigenous peoples as they are enmeshed, almost inevitably, in the remorseless expansion of the modern economy and development, at the behest of the pressures of the market-place and government. It is particularly timely, given the rise in criticism of free market capitalism generally, as well as of development. The volume seeks to capture the complex, power-laden, often contradictory features of indigenous agency and relationships. It shows how peoples do not just resist or react to the pressures of market and state, but also initiate and sustain "life projects" of their own which embody local history and incorporate plans to improve their social and economic ways of living.