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1 online resource (198 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 Climate Justice and the Challenge of Local Solutions; Chapter 2 The African Burial Ground: Roots of Ecological Destruction and Social Exploitation; Chapter 3 The Ties That Bind: An Earth-Based Story of Home; Chapter 4 Food Justice, Permaculture, and Global Urban Strategy; Chapter 5 The Declaration of Ek Balam: Protecting the Sacred in Corn; Chapter 6 The Paradox of Digital Technology in Social Movements; Chapter 7 A Climate Justice Compass for Transforming Self and World |
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Chapter 8 The Evolution of the Environmental Justice Movement: Translocal Voices for Systemic TransformationsChapter 9 Ethical Path to Ecological and Social Survival; Chapter 10 Living La Vida Local: Small Steps Toward Global Change; INDEX |
| Summary |
Considering the context of the present ecological and social crisis, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the relationship between globalism and localization. Globalism may be viewed as a positive emergent property of globalization. The latter depicts a worldwide economic and political system, and arguably a worldview, that has directly increased planetary levels of injustice, poverty, militarism, violence, and ecological destruction. In contrast, globalism represents interconnected systems of exchange and resourcefulness through increased communications across innumerable global diversities. In an economic, cultural, and political framework, localization centers on small-scale communities placed within the immediate bioregion, providing intimacy between the means of production and consumption, as well as long-term security and resilience. There is an increasing movement towards localization in order to counteract the destruction wreaked by globalization, yet our world is deeply and integrally immersed within a globalized reality. Within this collection, contributors expound upon the connection between local and global phenomenon within their respective fields including social ecology, climate justice, ecopsychology, big history, peace ecology, social justice, community resilience, indigenous rights, permaculture, food justice, liberatory politics, and both transformative and transpersonal studies |
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Environmentalism -- Social aspects -- United States
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Environmental sociology -- United States
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Environmental justice -- United States
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Social justice -- United States
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Climatic changes -- United States
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Ecofeminism -- United States
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Environmental sociology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Environmental Policy.
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Climatic changes
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Ecofeminism
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Environmental justice
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Environmental sociology
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Environmentalism -- Social aspects
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Social justice
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000007145 |
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1000007146 |
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