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The environmental humanities-founded on the indivisible
human-environment nexus-focus on socioeconomic inequalities,
injustices, and various cultural differences to explain
environmental degradation and crises and to propose solutions. The
Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader: Environmental Justice,
Developmental Victimhood, and Resistance presents unique analyses
of Bangladesh's environment-development relationships. The book
looks at developmental victimhood, environmental injustices, and
resistance of the marginalized in Bangladesh. It reflects how the
popular GDP-based economic development model motivates governments
of Bangladesh to undertake infrastructural and "development"
projects, the growth of which threatens environment and livelihood
of the poorer sections while benefiting the affluent profiteers.
The book also critically engages with environmentalism represented
through the literary works in Bangla through tales of pollution,
depletion, and human-nature symbiosis, showing ways to achieve
social justice to resist victimhood through art. Moreover,
agricultural technologies shaped by cultivators-scientists'
collaborations are often helpful for biodiversity conservation,
notwithstanding those that ruin ecology and livelihood. Against the
backdrop of climate change challenges, this book shows how politics
and technology meet in many cross-cutting pathways.
From Truth to Technique addresses key questions raised by the
burgeoning literature in what Philip Gaines calls advocacy advice
texts-manuals, handbooks, and other how-to guides-written by
lawyers for lawyers, both practicing and aspiring, to help them be
as effective as possible in trial advocacy. In these texts, advice
authors share principles, strategies, and techniques for persuading
juries and winning cases. Some manuals even form the basis for
required advocacy courses in law schools. Unlike training manuals
in other professional domains-sales, leadership, management,
fundraising, coaching, etc.-advocacy advice texts offer guidance
for effectiveness in a realm of activity where the stakes may be
the very highest for the parties and where society has an abiding
interest in the truth being discovered and justice being done.
Helping advocates learn how to win cases may be the ultimate
purpose of advice texts, but to what extent are ideas about the
values of truth and justice-what Gaines calls
metavalues-incorporated into discussions about winning tactics and
techniques? To explore this question, Gaines takes the reader
through a discursive history of the relation between technique and
metavalues as presented in advocacy advice-beginning with a
thematic analysis of the first texts published in the
Anglo-American tradition in the early 17th century, through
treatises written during seasons of radical change in the
profession in the 18th and 19th centuries, and up to the present
day with a look at the more than 200 trial manuals currently in
print. This diacronic study reveals dramatic changes in the place
authors give to the metavalues of truth and justice when lawyers
advise other lawyers about how to be effective in the courtroom.
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