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Recognizing that climate politics has been an increasingly
contentious and heated topic in Australia over the past two
decades, this book examines Australian capitalism as a driver of
climate change and the nexus between the corporations and Coalition
and Australian Labor parties. As a highly developed country,
Australia is punching above its weight in terms of contributing to
greenhouse gas emissions despite rising temperatures, droughts,
water shortages and raging bushfires, storm surges and flooding,
and the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef. Drawing upon both
archival and ethnographic research, Hans Baer examines Australian
climate politics at the margins, namely the Greens, the labour
union, the environmental NGOs, and the grass-roots climate
movement. Adopting a climate justice perspective which calls for
"system change, not climate change" as opposed to the conventional
approach of seeking to mitigate emissions through market mechanisms
and techno-fixes, particularly renewable energy sources, this book
posits system-challenging transitional steps to shift Australia
toward an eco-socialist vision in keeping with a burgeoning global
socio-ecological revolution. Accessibly written and including an
interview with renowned comedian and climate activist Rod Quantock
OAM, this book is essential reading for academics, students and
general readers with an interest in climate change and climate
activism.
Recognizing that climate politics has been an increasingly
contentious and heated topic in Australia over the past two
decades, this book examines Australian capitalism as a driver of
climate change and the nexus between the corporations and Coalition
and Australian Labor parties. As a highly developed country,
Australia is punching above its weight in terms of contributing to
greenhouse gas emissions despite rising temperatures, droughts,
water shortages and raging bushfires, storm surges and flooding,
and the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef. Drawing upon both
archival and ethnographic research, Hans Baer examines Australian
climate politics at the margins, namely the Greens, the labour
union, the environmental NGOs, and the grass-roots climate
movement. Adopting a climate justice perspective which calls for
"system change, not climate change" as opposed to the conventional
approach of seeking to mitigate emissions through market mechanisms
and techno-fixes, particularly renewable energy sources, this book
posits system-challenging transitional steps to shift Australia
toward an eco-socialist vision in keeping with a burgeoning global
socio-ecological revolution. Accessibly written and including an
interview with renowned comedian and climate activist Rod Quantock
OAM, this book is essential reading for academics, students and
general readers with an interest in climate change and climate
activism.
As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket,
increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the
desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic
Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need
to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social
equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sustainability.
Democatic eco-socialism, as he terms it, is a system capable of
mobilizing people around the world, albeit in different ways, to
prevent on-going human socio-economic and environmental
degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.
In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this
book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of
climate change, guided by a critical political ecological
framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the
anthropology of climate change, reviews the historic foundations
for this work in the archaeology of climate change, and presents
three alternative contemporary theoretical perspectives in the
anthropology of climate change. This second edition is fully
updated to include the most recent literature published since the
first edition in 2014. It also examines a number of new topics,
including an analysis of the 2014 American Anthropological
Association's Global Climate Change Task Force report, a new case
study on responses to climate change in developed societies, and
reference to the stance of the Trump administration on climate
change. Not only does this book provide a valuable overview of the
field and the key literature, but it also gives researchers and
students in Environmental Anthropology, Climate Change, Human
Geography, Sociology, and Political Science a novel framework for
understanding climate change that emphasizes human socioecological
interactions.
In addressing the urgent questions raised by climate change, this
book provides a comprehensive overview of the anthropology of
climate change, guided by a critical political ecological
framework. It examines the emergence and slow maturation of the
anthropology of climate change, reviews the historic foundations
for this work in the archaeology of climate change, and presents
three alternative contemporary theoretical perspectives in the
anthropology of climate change. This second edition is fully
updated to include the most recent literature published since the
first edition in 2014. It also examines a number of new topics,
including an analysis of the 2014 American Anthropological
Association's Global Climate Change Task Force report, a new case
study on responses to climate change in developed societies, and
reference to the stance of the Trump administration on climate
change. Not only does this book provide a valuable overview of the
field and the key literature, but it also gives researchers and
students in Environmental Anthropology, Climate Change, Human
Geography, Sociology, and Political Science a novel framework for
understanding climate change that emphasizes human socioecological
interactions.
The number of airplane flights worldwide continues to grow and is
one of the many drivers of climate change. This book examines the
aviation industry from an anthropological perspective, focusing on
the sector's environmental impact and the challenges facing
attempts to shift to more sustainable solutions. Hans Baer outlines
how airplanes have become a key component of modern cultural and
social life, and how the world system has become increasingly
dependent on them to function. He critically examines current
efforts to mitigate the climatic impact of the air travel and
argues for a significant move away from air transport, suggesting
that such a shift may only be achieved through a more fundamental
change in the world system.
The number of airplane flights worldwide continues to grow and is
one of the many drivers of climate change. This book examines the
aviation industry from an anthropological perspective, focusing on
the sector's environmental impact and the challenges facing
attempts to shift to more sustainable solutions. Hans Baer outlines
how airplanes have become a key component of modern cultural and
social life, and how the world system has become increasingly
dependent on them to function. He critically examines current
efforts to mitigate the climatic impact of the air travel and
argues for a significant move away from air transport, suggesting
that such a shift may only be achieved through a more fundamental
change in the world system.
Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame
understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care
in light of social and health inequality as well as structural
violence. It also examines how the exercise of power in the health
arena and in society overall impacts human health and well-being.
Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives,
Third Edition includes updated and expanded information on medical
anthropology, resulting in an even more comprehensive resource for
undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers
worldwide. As in the previous versions of this text, the authors
provide insights from the perspective of critical medical
anthropology, a well-established theoretical viewpoint from which
faculty, researchers, and students study medical anthropology. It
addresses the nature and scope of medical anthropology; the
biosocial and political ecological origins of disease, health
inequities, and social suffering; and the nature of medical systems
in indigenous and pre-capitalist state societies and modern
societies. The third edition also includes new material on the
relationship between climate change and health. Finally, this
textbook explores health praxis and the struggle for a healthy
world.
As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket,
increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the
desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic
Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need
to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social
equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sustainability.
Democatic eco-socialism, as he terms it, is a system capable of
mobilizing people around the world, albeit in different ways, to
prevent on-going human socio-economic and environmental
degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.
Many progressive scholars, particularly in the social sciences,
have increasingly come to acknowledge that anthropogenic climate
change constitutes yet another contradiction of global capitalism.
This book constitutes an effort to develop a critical social
science of climate change, one that posits its roots in global
capitalism with its emphasis on profit-making, a treadmill of
production and consumption, heavy reliance on fossil fuels, and
commitment to ongoing economic expansion. It explores the systemic
changes necessary to create a more socially just and sustainable
world system that would possibly start to move humanity toward a
safer climate and discusses the role of a burgeoning climate
movement in this effort.
This book chronicles the transformation of the holistic health
movement over the past three decades, as it increasingly influences
the delivery of health care in America. In it, he describes the
battle for legitimacy by alternative therapeutic practitioners, and
the biomedical profession's increasing interest in the
possibilities of a complementary and integrative medical system.
Baer examines a variety of professionalized and lay heterodox
therapeutic systems, including chiropractors, naturopaths and
acupuncturists, homeopaths, bodyworkers, and lay midwives. He
shows, ironically, how the holistic movement may become more
limited as it gains acceptance and becomes integrated into
mainstream, professional medicine. This book is a valuable resource
for instructors, students, professionals and others interested in
public health issues, health policy, medical studies, health
economics, medical anthropology and sociology.
This volume reflects a new commitment by American anthropologists
to engage in what has been called the anthropology of racism: the
analysis of systems of inequality based on biological differences.
Comprising 9 papers and related commentary, ""African Americans In
the South"" examines racism, class stratification and sexism as
they bear on the African-American struggle for social justice,
equality and cultural identity in the South. The essays fall into
three broad categories: economic survival strategies, health and
reproductive problems and religious responses to the larger
society. Essays in the first category discuss African-American teen
pregnancy and mutual aid societies. The second group focuses on
health practices and knowledge among blacks in a Georgia town,
African-American midwifery in North Carolina, an AIDS education
program in a Tennessee city and eating habits in rural North
Carolina. The essays in the last category emphasize the diversity
of the African-American religious experience by focusing on black
Pentecostals, Jews and Mormons in the South.
The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this
number continues to increase as developing countries imitate
developed societies in their adoption of the culture of
automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor
vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental
crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic
climate change to which motor vehicles constitute a major
contributor. A political ecological perspective recognizes that
motor vehicles, perhaps more than any other machine, embody the
social, structural, cultural, and environmental contradictions of
the capitalist world system. In addition to highlighting many of
the environmental, social, and health, environmental consequences
of humanity’s increasing reliance on motor vehicles, particularly
private automobiles, this book argues that ultimately we need as a
species to move beyond motor vehicles as much as possible but that
such an effort will have be part and parcel of creating an
alternative world system based on social justice, democratic
processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate, one
termed democratic eco-socialism.
Now in its second edition, Global Capitalism and Climate Change:
The Need for an Alternative World System examines anthropogenic
climate change in the context of global capitalism, a political
economy that emphasizes profit-making, is committed to on-going
economic growth, results in massive social inequality, fosters a
treadmill of production and consumption, and is heavily reliant on
fossil fuels. Looking ahead, Hans A. Baer explores the systemic
changes necessary to create a more socially just, democratic, and
environmentally sustainable world system capable of moving humanity
toward a safer climate. This book is recommended for readers
interested in anti-systemic efforts, including eco-anarchism,
eco-feminism, the de-growth perspective, Indigenous voices, and the
climate justice movement.
Grappling with Societies and Institutions in an Era of
Socio-Ecological Crisis is an autoethnography of the journey
through various societies and institutions and how they function in
the midst of an era of socio-ecological crises. The volume traces
the steps of the author in becoming a radical anthropologist,
namely through the experience of immigration and naturalization
from Peru to the United States and then to Australia,
politicization while working as an engineer in the aircraft
industry during the late 1960s, socialization in and subsequent
exit from Roman Catholicism, and experiences as an academic working
in the corporate university. As well, the author illuminates the
practices of research and engagement as a scholar-activist on
various topics, such as the Levites of Utah and African American
Spiritual churches, socio-political and religious life in East
Germany, complementary and alternative medicine, the Australian
climate movement, and democratic eco-socialism.
Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame
understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care
in light of social and health inequality as well as structural
violence. It also examines how the exercise of power in the health
arena and in society overall impacts human health and well-being.
Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives,
Third Edition includes updated and expanded information on medical
anthropology, resulting in an even more comprehensive resource for
undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers
worldwide. As in the previous versions of this text, the authors
provide insights from the perspective of critical medical
anthropology, a well-established theoretical viewpoint from which
faculty, researchers, and students study medical anthropology. It
addresses the nature and scope of medical anthropology; the
biosocial and political ecological origins of disease, health
inequities, and social suffering; and the nature of medical systems
in indigenous and pre-capitalist state societies and modern
societies. The third edition also includes new material on the
relationship between climate change and health. Finally, this
textbook explores health praxis and the struggle for a healthy
world.
Climate change is the hottest topic of the twenty-first century and
the climate movement a significant global social movement. This
book examines the broad context of Australian climate politics and
the place of the climate movement within it. Acting 'from above'
are the most powerful forces-corporations and governments, both
Labor and Coalition-with the media framing the issues. Climate
movement actors 'in the middle' include the Australian Greens,
major environmental and climate organisations, public
intellectuals, think-tanks, academics and the union movement.
Acting 'from below' are the numerous local climate action groups
and various regional and national networks. This lowest level is
the primary location of the climate movement: and grassroots
mobilisation the source of its vitality. Burgmann and Baer's study
offers a vision for an alternative Australia based upon the
principles of social equity and environmental sustainability.
In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a
global cause of morbidity and mortality. Since the end of World War
II, there have been at least 160 wars around the world with as many
as 25 million (and probably many more) people killed, most of them
civilians. Directly or indirectly, war touches the lives of most
people on the planet, often with lasting and costly impact. Framed
by the holistic and ethnographically grounded theoretical
perspective of critical medical anthropology, and more broadly by
the political economy of health, this book of essays by leading
medical anthropologists and other health social scientists
carefully examines the global effects of war, the war industry, and
the international weapons trade on human health and well-being.
Further, this book goes beyond offering a lively and readable
account of a pressing health concern by critically analyzing the
political and economic forces driving the war machine to inflict
ever-increasing levels of social suffering and loss of life.
Whereas various professionalised heterodox medical systems found in
Western societies, such as homeopathy, chiropractic, osteopathy,
Chinese traditional medicine, and even acupuncture have been the
object of considerable historical and social scientific research,
naturopathy has been, at best, spotty. This book constitutes the
first effort to provide a broad social historical and ethonographic
account, particularly in the United States, Canada, and Australia,
but to a lesser extent in Germany, Britian, New Zealand and India.
Naturopathy emerged in the early twentieth century under the
leadership of Benedict Lust, a German immigrant to the United
States who had studied under Father Kneipp (a strong proponent of
water cure), as a highly eclectic therapeautic system that drew not
only from hydropathy, but also herbalism, colonic irrigation,
dietetics, fasting, exercise, iridology, and manipulative therapy.
While some naturopaths advocate these modalities, others today draw
upon homeopathy, vitamin and nutritional supplements, acupuncture,
Ayurveda, and other therapies. Naturopaths or naturopathic
physicians are the ultimate therapeutic eclectics within the
broader confines of complementary and alternative medicine. Yet
naturopathy is not a monolithic entity but has been shaped by
historical developments in the larger plural medical systems and
national sociopolitical contexts in which it is embedded. Like
other medical systems, naturopathy is a cultural construction with
fluid borders within specific countries across the globe.
Killer Commodities enters the increasingly heated debate regarding
consumer culture with a critical examination of the relationship
between corporate production of goods for profit and for public
health. This collection analyzes the nature and public health
impact of a wide range of dangerous commercial products from around
the world, and it addresses the question of how policies should be
changed to better protect the public, workers, and the environment.
Killer Commodities enters the increasingly heated debate regarding
consumer culture with a critical examination of the relationship
between corporate production of goods for profit and for public
health. This collection analyzes the nature and public health
impact of a wide range of dangerous commercial products from around
the world, and it addresses the question of how policies should be
changed to better protect the public, workers, and the environment.
This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the
nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in
light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend
to protect public health, but in fact they often represent
significant structural threats to the health and well being of the
poor, ethnic minorities, women, and other subordinate groups. The
volume focuses on the 'anthropology of policy,' which is concerned
with the process of decision-making, the influences on
decision-makers, and the impact of policy on human lives. This
collaboration will be a critical resource for researchers and
practitioners in medical anthropology, applied anthropology,
medical sociology, minority issues, public policy, and health care
issues.
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