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Zusatztext "Inspiring, life affirming, poignant. This densely packed volume of wisdom from the hearts and minds of people most intimately targeted by climate change illustrates what is at stake, provides a vision of what must be done, and cogently illustrates an intersectional analysis that includes the environment. There is no other book like it." – Kari Marie Norgaard, Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon, USA Informationen zum Autor Phoebe Godfrey is an Assistant Professor-in-Residence at UCONN in sociology. She co-founded the non-profit CLiCK dedicated to a local sustainable food system. Denise Torres is a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. The unifying theme of her work and publications is the authentic inclusion of silenced and marginalized groups in the systems that affect them. Klappentext This book addresses the social and ecological urgency surrounding climate change and the need to use intersectionality in both theory and practice, whereas its companions book (Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability) addresses the need to integrate social science and social welfare theories to identify, enhance and support equitable and sustainable solutions. Zusammenfassung This book addresses the social and ecological urgency surrounding climate change and the need to use intersectionality in both theory and practice, whereas its companions book (Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability) addresses the need to integrate social science and social welfare theories to identify, enhance and support equitable and sustainable solutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Locating ourselves within the Anthropocene: Applying intersectional analyses Part I: Chaos 1. World turning; worlds colliding? 2. Pulled from all angles 3. Mother Earth Meets the Anthropocene: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis 4. The Environment in the 21st Century 5. Rush Limbaugh and the Expanding Culture War: Whiteness, Masculinity and Conservative Media Denials of Climate Change and Sexism 6. Hegemonic masculinity 7. Supersky Woman 8. MAN Still #63 9. Population, Climate Change, and the Embodiment of Environmental Crisis 10. The Great Mother Wails Part II: AIR 11. The search for authenticity in a climate of denial 12. Intelligent Life 13. The Science proves it or not 14. The Canoe, The Island and The World 15: Tlakaelel’s view of climate change 16: Climate change and Hispanics/Latinos in the U.S.: An exploration of public perceptions and media issues 17. A call for climate justice 18. Climate Action & literacy through creativity & conversations 19: MAN Still #73 Part III: EARTH 20. At the fault lines: Exposing the forces of discontinuity 21. Harvesting Poison 22: Contradictions of a sick system: Food, climate and capitalism 23: Women, climate change and food security in Bangladesh 24: Sila 25. Polar Bear on Bernard Harbor 26. Race, gender, and climate injustice: Dimensions of social and environmental inequality 27. Mother Earth 28. The political ecology of Pachamama: Race, class, climate change, and Kallawaya traditions 29. Sandcastle Part IV: FIRE 30. The struggle for praxis: Forging the uncertainty 31. Crude 32. Small Extinction 33. Selmo oil field: A micro-site of global climate change and the global intimate 34. Singing Today, For Tomorrow 35: Global wildfire and urban development: Blowback from disaster capitalism 36. As the world melts 37. Personal Tale from the Environmental Wetback: Rethinking Power, Privilege and Poverty in a Time of Climate Change Politics 38. Climate Action Planning (CAP): An intersectional approach to the urban equity dilemma 39. Dear Future Generation 40. All yours Part V: Water 41. The fluidity of identity and the crisis of material re...
