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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.
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.
Humans are good at making war-and much less successful at making
peace. Genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes against
humanity are gross violations of human rights that are frequently
perpetrated and legitimized in the name of nationalism, militarism,
and economic development. This book tackles the question of how to
make peace by taking a critical look at the primary political
mechanism used to "repair" the many injuries suffered in war. With
an explicit focus on reparations and human rights, it examines the
broad array of abuses being perpetrated in the modern era, from
genocide to loss of livelihood. Based on the experiences of
anthropologists and others who document abuses and serve as expert
witnesses, case studies from around the world offer insight into
reparations proceedings; the ethical struggles associated with
attempts to secure reparations; the professional and personal risks
to researchers, victims, and human rights advocates; and how to
come to terms with the political compromises of reparations in the
face of the human need for justice. Waging War, Making Peace
promises to be a major contribution to public policy, political
science, international relations, and human rights and peace
research.
Humans are good at making war--and much less successful at making
peace. Genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes against
humanity are gross violations of human rights that are frequently
perpetrated and legitimized in the name of nationalism, militarism,
and economic development. This book tackles the question of how to
make peace by taking a critical look at the primary political
mechanism used to "repair" the many injuries suffered in war. With
an explicit focus on reparations and human rights, it examines the
broad array of abuses being perpetrated in the modern era, from
genocide to loss of livelihood. Based on the experiences of
anthropologists and others who document abuses and serve as expert
witnesses, case studies from around the world offer insight into
reparations proceedings; the ethical struggles associated with
attempts to secure reparations; the professional and personal risks
to researchers, victims, and human rights advocates; and how to
come to terms with the political compromises of reparations in the
face of the human need for justice. Waging War, Making Peace
promises to be a major contribution to public policy, political
science, international relations, and human rights and peace
research.
The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in
1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people.
Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide
incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to
individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community
through use of declassified government documents, oral histories
and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community
within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce
a $1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues
of bioethics, government secrecy, human rights, military testing,
and academic activism. The report, reproduced here with
accompanying materials, should be read by everyone concerned with
the effects of nuclear war and is an essential text for courses in
history, environmental studies, bioethics, human rights, and
related subjects.
The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in
1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people.
Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide
incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to
individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community
through use of declassified government documents, oral histories
and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community
within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce
a $1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues
of bioethics, government secrecy, human rights, military testing,
and academic activism. The report, reproduced here with
accompanying materials, should be read by everyone concerned with
the effects of nuclear war and is an essential text for courses in
history, environmental studies, bioethics, human rights, and
related subjects.
South and Central Asia is a region of extraordinary cultural and
environmental diversity and home to nearly one-quarter of the
earth's population. Among these diverse peoples are some whose ways
of life are threatened by the accelerating assault of forces of
change including environmental degradation, population growth, land
loss, warfare, disease, and the penetration of global markets. This
volume examines twelve Asian groups whose way of life is
endangered. Some are "indigenous" peoples, some are not; each group
represents a unique answer to the question of how to survive and
thrive on the planet earth, and illustrates both the threats and
the responses of peoples caught up in the struggle to sustain
cultural meaning, identity, and autonomy. Each chapter, written by
an expert scholar for a general audience, offers a cultural
overview, explores both threats to survival and the group's
responses, and provokes discussion and further research with "food
for thought." This powerful documentation of both tragedy and hope
for the twenty-first-century survival of centuries-old cultures is
a key reference for anyone interested in the region, in cultural
survival, or in the interplay of diversification and
homogenization.
South and Central Asia is a region of extraordinary cultural and
environmental diversity and home to nearly one-quarter of the
earth's population. Among these diverse peoples are some whose ways
of life are threatened by the accelerating assault of forces of
change including environmental degradation, population growth, land
loss, warfare, disease, and the penetration of global markets. This
volume examines twelve Asian groups whose way of life is
endangered. Some are "indigenous" peoples, some are not; each group
represents a unique answer to the question of how to survive and
thrive on the planet earth, and illustrates both the threats and
the responses of peoples caught up in the struggle to sustain
cultural meaning, identity, and autonomy. Each chapter, written by
an expert scholar for a general audience, offers a cultural
overview, explores both threats to survival and the group's
responses, and provokes discussion and further research with "food
for thought." This powerful documentation of both tragedy and hope
for the twenty-first-century survival of centuries-old cultures is
a key reference for anyone interested in the region, in cultural
survival, or in the interplay of diversification and
homogenization.
The long Cold War of the twentieth century has ended, but only now
are the poisonous legacies of that "first nuclear age" coming to
light. Activists and anthropologists, the authors of this volume
reveal the devastating, complex, and long-term environmental health
problems afflicting the people who worked in uranium mining and
processing, lived in regions dedicated to the construction of
nuclear weapons or participated, often unknowingly, in radiation
experiments. The nations and individuals, many of them members of
indigenous or ethnic minority communities, are now demanding
information about how the United States and the Soviet Union
poisoned them and meaningful remedies for the damage done to them
and the generations to come. As nuclear proliferation accelerates,
this struggle takes on ever greater urgency.
Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across
anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of
exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and
the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent
claim that both the physical and the mental world matter, these
environmental scholars proceed from the holistic assumption that
the physical world and human societies are always inextricably
linked. As they incorporate diverse forms of knowledge, their work
reaches beyond anthropology to bridge the sciences, social
sciences, and the humanities, and to forge working relationships
with non-academic communities and professionals. Theoretical issues
such as the cultural dimensions of context, knowledge, and power
are articulated alongside practical discussions of building
partnerships, research methods and ethics, and strategies for
implementing policy. New Directions in Environment and Anthropology
will be important for all scholars and non-academics interested in
the relation between our species and its biotic and built
environments. It is also designed for classroom use in and beyond
anthropology, and students will be greatly assisted by suggested
reading lists for their further exploration of general concepts and
specific research. Learn more about the author at the University of
North Carolina Anthropology Department web pages.
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