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Responding to climate change has become an industry. Governments,
corporations, activist groups and others now devote billions of
dollars to mitigation and adaptation, and their efforts represent
one of the most significant policy measures ever dedicated to a
global challenge. Despite its laudatory intent, the response
industry, or 'Climate Inc.', is failing. Reimagining Climate Change
questions established categories, routines, and practices that
presently constitute accepted solutions to tackling climate change
and offers alternative routes forward. It does so by unleashing the
political imagination. The chapters grasp the larger arc of
collective experience, interpret its meaning for the choices we
face, and creatively visualize alternative trajectories that can
help us cognitively and emotionally enter into alternative climate
futures. They probe the meaning and effectiveness of climate
protection 'from below'-forms of community and practice that are
emerging in various locales around the world and that hold promise
for greater collective resonance. They also question climate
protection "from above" in the form of industrial and modernist
orientations and examine large-scale agribusinesses, as well as
criticize the concept of resilience as it is presently being
promoted as a response to climate change. This book will be of
great interest to students and scholars of climate change, global
environmental politics, and environmental studies in general, as
well as climate change activists.
Responding to climate change has become an industry. Governments,
corporations, activist groups and others now devote billions of
dollars to mitigation and adaptation, and their efforts represent
one of the most significant policy measures ever dedicated to a
global challenge. Despite its laudatory intent, the response
industry, or 'Climate Inc.', is failing. Reimagining Climate Change
questions established categories, routines, and practices that
presently constitute accepted solutions to tackling climate change
and offers alternative routes forward. It does so by unleashing the
political imagination. The chapters grasp the larger arc of
collective experience, interpret its meaning for the choices we
face, and creatively visualize alternative trajectories that can
help us cognitively and emotionally enter into alternative climate
futures. They probe the meaning and effectiveness of climate
protection 'from below'-forms of community and practice that are
emerging in various locales around the world and that hold promise
for greater collective resonance. They also question climate
protection "from above" in the form of industrial and modernist
orientations and examine large-scale agribusinesses, as well as
criticize the concept of resilience as it is presently being
promoted as a response to climate change. This book will be of
great interest to students and scholars of climate change, global
environmental politics, and environmental studies in general, as
well as climate change activists.
Hilal Elver offers an in-depth study of the escalating controversy
over the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves. Examining legal
and political debates in Turkey, several European countries
including France and Germany, and the United States, Elver shows
the troubling exclusion of pious Muslim women from the public
sphere in the name of secularism, democracy, liberalism, and
women's rights. After evaluating political actions and court
decisions from the national level of individual governments to the
international sphere of the European Court of Human Rights, Elver
concludes that judges and legislators are increasingly influenced
by social pressures concerning immigration and multiculturalism,
and by issues such as Islamophobia, the "war on terror, " and
security concerns. She shows how these influences have resulted in
a failure on the part of many Western governments to recognize and
protect essential individual freedoms. Employing a critical legal
theory perspective to the headscarf controversy, Elver argues that
law can be used to change underlying social conditions shaping the
role of religion, and also the position of women in modern society.
The Headscarf Controversy demonstrates how changes in law across
nations can be used to restore state commitments to human rights.
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