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Environmentalism from Below - How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet
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Environmentalism from Below - How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet
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A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the
frontlines of the climate crisis. Environmentalism from Below takes
readers inside the popular struggles for environmental liberation
in the Global South. These communities—among the most vulnerable
to but also least responsible for the climate crisis—have long
been at the forefront of the fight to protect imperiled worlds.
Today, as the world’s forests burn and our oceans acidify,
grassroots movements are tenaciously defending the environmental
commons and forging just and sustainable ways of living on Earth.
Scholar and activist Ashley Dawson constructs a gripping narrative
of these movements of climate insurgents, from international
solidarity organizations like La Via Campesina and Shack Dwellers
International to local struggles in South Africa, Colombia, India,
Nigeria, and beyond. Taking up the four critical challenges we face
in a warming world—food, urban sustainability, energy transition,
and conservation—Dawson shows how the unruly power of
environmentalism from below is charting an alternative path
forward, from challenging industrial agriculture through fights for
food sovereignty and agroecology to resisting extractivism using
mass nonviolent protest and sabotage. An urgent, essential
intervention, Environmentalism from Below offers a hopeful
alternative to the gridlock of UN-based climate negotiations and
the narrow nationalism of some Green New Deal efforts. As Dawson
reminds us, the fight against ecocide is already being waged
worldwide. Building on longstanding traditions of anticolonial
struggle, environmentalism from below is a model for a people’s
movement for climate justice—one that demands solidarity.
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Imprint: |
Haymarket Books
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Ashley Dawson
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Dimensions: |
228 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-64259-970-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-64259-970-0 |
Barcode: |
9781642599701 |
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