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As governments and corporations scramble to pull the plug on
research that proves that they are poisoning our planet and rush to
muzzle the scientists who dare to share their disturbing data, it
seems the powerful have declared a war on science. Michael Riordon
asks deep questions of bold scientists who defy the status quo
including: an Indigenous biologist who integrates traditional
knowledge and a trickster's wit; an engineering professor who
exposes the myths and dangers of fracking; a forensic geneticist
who traces children stolen by the military in El Salvador; a
sociologist who investigates the lure and threat of mass
surveillance; a radical psychologist who confronts psychiatry's
dangerous power; and a young marine biologist who risks her career
to defend science and democracy. Who controls science and at what
cost to the earth and its inhabitants? Can we change? This is
unspun science for dangerous times.
"An Unauthorized Biography of the World" explores the practice of
engaged oral history: the difficult, sometimes dangerous work of
recovering fragments of human story that have gone missing from the
official versions.
Michael Riordon has thirty years' experience as a writer and
broadcaster in the field. Readers will encounter a gallery of
brave, passionate people who gather silenced voices and lost life
stories. The canvas is broad, the stakes are high: the battles for
First Nations lands in Canada; environmental justice in Chicago;
genocide in Peru; homeless people organizing in Cleveland;
September 11/01, and after, in New York City; gay survivors of
electroshock in Britain; the struggle to preserve a people's
identity in Newfoundland; peasant resistance to a huge
transnational gold mine in Turkey.
Traveling to thousand-year-old olive groves, besieged villages,
refugee camps, checkpoints, and barracks, Michael Riordon talks
with people on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict who
fight violence and war through creative resistance. The region
remains a symbol of instability fueled by violence and hatred, and
this investigation enters into the heart of the dispute and offers
a different perspective. The author uncovers the crises that
stirred them to act, the risks they face in working for peace, and
the small victories that sustain them. These stories of Israelis
who refuse to see Palestinians as enemies and Palestinians who
practice nonviolent resistance break all stereotypes. In the face
of deepening conflict, this portrait of courageous grassroots
action provides hope for a livable future and inspiration to peace
activists in all nations.
Michael Riordan celebrates the survival of ordinary,
extraordinary people whose experiences are rarely reflected in the
media. These stories of courage and humour were gathered in the
course of two years and 27,000 kilometres of travel, and some three
hundred in-person conversations.
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