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Liberation Science: Putting Science to Work for Social and Environmental Justice

Author : Steven H. Emerman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300437928
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Liberation Science: Putting Science to Work for Social and Environmental Justice written by Steven H. Emerman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberation Science is the practice of using the knowledge and methods of science to solve the social and environmental problems faced by the poor. Liberation Science can address these problems because it has been freed from the flawed scientific paradigms that are linked to the flawed social paradigms of nationalism and capitalism. Three themes of Liberation Science are: 1) The definition of an ecosystem becomes both more expansive and more holistic to include humans, cultural practices, and the built environment, together with the possibility that an ecosystem could mimic the behavior of a single organism. 2) The logic and methods of science are made available to ordinary people, empowering them to understand the ecologies of their own communities. 3) Science becomes open to complementary philosophical approaches that draw upon cultural and spiritual traditions of particular regions or communities.

Anti-Zionism on Campus

Author : Andrew Pessin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253034086
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Zionism on Campus written by Andrew Pessin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. This book is an exposition of the actual and personal consequences of the BDS assault on university campuses. 2. Its authors include a senior scholar in American history and a senior scholar in philosophy. Both are strong followers of the BDS movement on American college and university campus. Pessin maintains a news outlet on matters concerning Jews and Israel. 3. Work on antisemitism is an important component of our Jewish studies list. Books in this area provide a unique contribution to understanding the resurgence of religiously motivated violence and hate speech.

Critical Animal Geographies

Author : Kathryn Gillespie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317649265
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Critical Animal Geographies written by Kathryn Gillespie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Animal Geographies provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies, exploring the spatial, political, and ethical dimensions of animals’ lived experience and human-animal encounter. It works toward a more radical politics and theory directed at the shifting boundary between human and animal. Chapters draw together feminist, political-economic, post-humanist, anarchist, post-colonial, and critical race literatures with original case studies in order to see how efforts by some humans to control and order life – human and not – violate, constrain, and impinge upon others. Central to all chapters is a commitment to grappling with the stakes – violence, death, life, autonomy – of human-animal encounters. Equally, the work in the collection addresses head-on the dominant forces shaping and dependent on these encounters: capitalism, racism, colonialism, and so on. In doing so, the book pushes readers to confront how human-animal relations are mixed up with overlapping axes of power and exploitation, including gender, race, class, and species.

Technoscience and Environmental Justice

Author : Gwen Ottinger
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262297507
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Technoscience and Environmental Justice written by Gwen Ottinger and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies exploring how experts' encounters with environmental justice are changing technical and scientific practice. Over the course of nearly thirty years, the environmental justice movement has changed the politics of environmental activism and influenced environmental policy. In the process, it has turned the attention of environmental activists and regulatory agencies to issues of pollution, toxics, and human health as they affect ordinary people, especially people of color. This book argues that the environmental justice movement has also begun to transform science and engineering. The chapters present case studies of technical experts' encounters with environmental justice activists and issues, exploring the transformative potential of these interactions. Technoscience and Environmental Justice first examines the scientific practices and identities of technical experts who work with environmental justice organizations, whether by becoming activists themselves or by sharing scientific information with communities. It then explore scientists' and engineers' activities in such mainstream scientific institutions as regulatory agencies and universities, where environmental justice concerns have been (partially) institutionalized as a response to environmental justice activism. All of the chapters grapple with the difficulty of transformation that experts face, but the studies also show how environmental justice activism has created opportunities for changing technical practices and, in a few cases, has even accomplished significant transformations.

Toxic truths

Author : Thom Davies
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526137011
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Toxic truths written by Thom Davies and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Debates over science, facts, and values are pivotal in the struggle for environmental justice. For decades, environmental justice activists have campaigned against the misuse of science, engaging in community-led citizen science that champions knowledge produced by and for ordinary people living with environmental risks and hazards. However, post-truth politics have threatened science itself. Toxic truths examines the relationship between environmental justice and citizen science, focusing on enduring issues and new challenges in a post-truth age. The volume features a range of community-based participatory environmental health and justice research projects that seek to establish different ways of sensing, witnessing, and interpreting environmental injustice. From struggles in American hog country and contaminated indigenous communities, to local environmental controversies in Spain and China, this volume examines political strategies for seeking environmental justice. With international, interdisciplinary contributions from distinguished authors, emerging scholars and community activists, Toxic truths is essential reading for those seeking to understand the cutting edge of citizen science and activism around the world.

Galileo's Middle Finger

Author : Alice Dreger
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143108115
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Galileo's Middle Finger written by Alice Dreger and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Galileo's Middle Finger is historian Alice Dreger's eye-opening story of life in the trenches of scientific controversy. Dreger's chronicle begins with her own research into the treatment of people born intersex (once called hermaphrodites). Realization of the shocking surgical and ethical abuses conducted in the name of "normalizing" intersex children's gender identities moved Dreger to become an internationally recognized patient rights activist. But even as the intersex rights movement succeeded, Dreger began to realize how some fellow activists were using lies and personal attacks to silence scientisis whose data revealed uncomfortable truths about humans. In researching one case, Dreger suddenly became a target of just these kinds of attacks. Troubled, she decided to try to understand more -- to travel the country and seek a global view of the nature and costs of these damaging battles. Galileo's Middle Finger describes Dreger's long and harrowing journeys between the two camps for which she felt equal empathy: social justice activists determined to win and researchers determined to put hard truths before comfort. What emerges is a lesson about the intertwining of justice and truth-- and about the importance of responsible scholars and journalists to our fragile democracy." --

Energy and Environmental Justice

Author : Tristan Partridge
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031097602
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Energy and Environmental Justice written by Tristan Partridge and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconnects energy research with the radical, reflexive, and transformative approaches of Environmental Justice. Global patterns of energy production and use are disrupting the ecosystems that sustain all life, disproportionately affecting marginalized groups. Addressing such injustices, this book examines how energy relates to structural issues of exploitation, racism, colonialism, extractivism, the commodification of work, and the systemic devaluing of diverse ‘others.’ The result is a new agenda for critical energy research that builds on a growing global movement of environmental justice activism and scholarship. Throughout the book the author reframes ‘transitions’ as collaborative projects of justice that demand structural change and societal shifts to more equitable and reciprocal ways of living. This book will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners interested in transforming energy systems and working collectively to build just planetary futures.

Is Science Enough?

Author : Aviva Chomsky
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807015784
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Is Science Enough? written by Aviva Chomsky and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why social, racial, and economic justice are just as crucial as science in determining how humans can reverse climate catastrophe We are facing a climate catastrophe. A plethora of studies describe the damage we’ve already done, the droughts, the wildfires, the super-storms, the melting glaciers, the heat waves, and the displaced people fleeing lands that are becoming uninhabitable. Many people understand that we are facing a climate emergency, but may be fuzzy on technical, policy, and social justice aspects. In Is Science Enough?, Aviva Chomsky breaks down the concepts, terminology, and debates for activists, students, and anyone concerned about climate change. She argues that science is not enough to change course: we need put social, racial, and economic justice front and center and overhaul the global growth economy. Chomsky’s accessible primer focuses on 5 key issues: 1.) Technical questions: What exactly are “clean,” “renewable,” and “zero-emission” energy sources? How much do different sectors (power generation, transportation, agriculture, industry, etc.) contribute to climate change? Can forests serve as a carbon sink? 2.) Policy questions: What is the Green New Deal? How does a cap-and-trade system work? How does the United States subsidize the fossil fuel industry? 3.) What can I do as an individual?: Do we need to consume less? What kinds of individual actions can make the most difference? Should we all be vegetarians? 4.) Social, racial, and economic justice: What’s the relationship of inequality to climate change? What do race and racism have to do with climate change? How are pandemics related to climate change? 5.) Broadening the lens: What is economic growth? How important is it, and how does it affect the environment? What is degrowth?

Liberation Ecologies

Author : Richard Peet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134382944
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Liberation Ecologies written by Richard Peet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberation Ecologies elaborates a political-economic explanation of environmental crisis, drawing from the most recent advances in social theory.

Rethinking Technology and Engineering

Author : Albrecht Fritzsche
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031252330
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Technology and Engineering written by Albrecht Fritzsche and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives insight into the ongoing work of the forum on Philosophy, Engineering and Technology (fPET), which brings together philosophers and engineers from all over the world to discuss philosophical issues of engineering across disciplinary boundaries. Drawing on presentations and conversations at the fPET 2020 online conference hosted by the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Chile, the chapters establish connections and describe discoveries that have so far been neglected in the discussions held within the young discipline of philosophy of engineering. This volume appeals to students and researchers in the field, through twenty-four proposals brought forward by leading scholars and emerging voices. Pertinent themes covered are: the broader engagement of engineers in problem-solving beyond the scope of their own profession the exploration of new goals for technology development and the implementation of strategies to reach these goals the need for philosophical content and unique pedagogical approaches to engineering education, digital transformations, artificial intelligence and the ethics of online collaboration in social media critical revisions of fundamental terminology and theoretical modelling of key concepts in engineering design, ethics, innovation and the anthropology of technology

Sustainability

Author : Julie Sze
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147987034X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Sustainability written by Julie Sze and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practices and social inequities exacerbate one another. How do social justice and sustainability connect? What does sustainability mean and, most importantly, how can we achieve it with justice? This volume tackles these questions, placing social justice and interdisciplinary approaches at the center of efforts for a more sustainable world. Contributors present empirical case studies that illustrate how sustainability can take place without contributing to social inequality. From indigenous land rights, climate conflict, militarization and urban drought resilience, the book offers examples of ways in which sustainability and social justice strengthen one another. Through an understanding of history, diverse cultural traditions, and complexity in relation to race, class, and gender, this volume demonstrates ways in which sustainability can help to shape better and more robust solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Blending methods from the humanities, environmental sciences and the humanistic social sciences, this book offers an essential guide for the next generation of global citizens.

A People's History of Science

Author : Clifford D Conner
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 0786737867
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book A People's History of Science written by Clifford D Conner and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation. This history is made up of long periods of ignorance and confusion, punctuated once an age by a brilliant thinker who puts it all together. These few tower over the ordinary mass of people, and in the traditional account, it is to them that we owe science in its entirety. This belief is wrong. A People's History of Science shows how ordinary people participate in creating science and have done so throughout history. It documents how the development of science has affected ordinary people, and how ordinary people perceived that development. It would be wrong to claim that the formulation of quantum theory or the structure of DNA can be credited directly to artisans or peasants, but if modern science is likened to a skyscraper, then those twentieth-century triumphs are the sophisticated filigrees at its pinnacle that are supported by the massive foundation created by the rest of us.

The Intersection of Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Community, and the Ecology of Life

Author : Ande A. Nesmith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783030559502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book The Intersection of Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Community, and the Ecology of Life written by Ande A. Nesmith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines and encourages the increasing involvement of those in the social sciences, including social work, as well as everyday citizens, with environmental injustices that affect the natural ecology, community health, and physical and mental health of marginalized communities. The authors draw on their diverse experiences in research, practice, and education to suggest interdisciplinary strategies for addressing environmental justice, climate change, and ecological destruction on both a local and global scale. This insightful work presents models for action, practice, and education, including field learning, with examples of how programs and schools have integrated and infused environmental justice content across their curricula. Environmental and ecological impacts on local communities as well as the whole ecology of life are examined. Models for engaging civic dialogue, addressing structural oppression, and employing other interdisciplinary responses to environmental injustices are provided. Topics explored among the chapters include: Water, Air, and Land: The Foundation for Life, Food, and Society Human Health and Well-Being in Times of Global Environmental Crisis Power and Politics: Protection, Rebuilding, and Justice Pathways to Change: Community and Environmental Transformation Decolonizing Nature: The Potential of Nature to Heal The Intersection of Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Community, and the Ecology of Life equips readers to identify the impact of the global environmental crisis in their own communities. Emphasizing the need for immediate action on ecological, climate, and environmental justice issues, this forward-thinking book assists social science professionals, educators, researchers, and other concerned individuals with the knowledge needed for creating meaningful interdisciplinaryresponses in their communities as they take action within a rapidly changing context.

What is Critical Environmental Justice?

Author : David Naguib Pellow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509525327
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book What is Critical Environmental Justice? written by David Naguib Pellow and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today those relationships are witnessing greater frictions, tensions, and harms than ever before. These harms mirror those experienced by marginalized groups across the planet. In this novel book, David Naguib Pellow introduces a new framework for critically analyzing Environmental Justice scholarship and activism. In doing so he extends the field's focus to topics not usually associated with environmental justice, including the Israel/Palestine conflict and the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. In doing so he reveals that ecological violence is first and foremost a form of social violence, driven by and legitimated by social structures and discourses. Those already familiar with the discipline will find themselves invited to think about the subject in a new way. This book will be a vital resource for students, scholars, and policy makers interested in transformative approaches to one of the greatest challenges facing humanity and the planet.

Tainted

Author : Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette
Publisher : Environmental Ethics and Scien
ISBN 13 : 0199396418
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Tainted written by Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette and published by Environmental Ethics and Scien. This book was released on 2014 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as developing pharmaceuticals or establishing that a pollutant causes only minimal harm. Kristin Shrader-Frechette uses the analytical tools of classic philosophy of science to evaluate the conclusions of science tainted by the influence of special interests. She challenges accepted scientific findings regarding risks such as chemical toxins and carcinogens, ionizing radiation, pesticides, hazardous-waste disposal, development of environmentally sensitive lands, threats to endangered species, and inadequate standards for workplace-pollution exposure.

The Preferential Option for the Poor beyond Theology

Author : Daniel G. Groody
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268158630
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book The Preferential Option for the Poor beyond Theology written by Daniel G. Groody and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1973 publication of Gustavo Gutiérrez’s groundbreaking work A Theology of Liberation, liberation theology's central premise of the preferential option for the poor has become one of the most important yet controversial theological themes of the twentieth century. As the situation for many of the world’s poor worsens, it becomes ever more important to ensure that the option for the poor remains not only a vibrant theological concept but also a practical framework for living out the gift and challenge of Christian faith. The Preferential Option for the Poor beyond Theology draws on a diverse group of contributors to explore how disciplines as varied as law, economics, politics, the environment, science, liberal arts, film, and education can help us understand putting a commitment to the option for the poor into practice. The central focus of the book revolves around the question: How can one live a Christian life in a world of destitution? The contributors address the theological concept of the option for the poor as well as the ways it can shape our social, economic, political, educational, and environmental approaches to poverty. Their creative examples serve as an inspiration to all those who are seeking to put their talents at the service of human need and the building of a more just and humane world.

Liberation Sociology

Author : Joe R. Feagin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315479079
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Liberation Sociology written by Joe R. Feagin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberation sociology is concerned with eliminating social oppressions and creating truly just societies. Liberation sociology takes sides with the oppressed and envisions an end to that oppression. Liberation social scientists featured in this book consciously try to step outside their groups or societies and view them critically. The authors examine theories and research of social scientists who ask, Social science for what purpose? and Social science for whom? Case studies offer humanistic, democratic, and activist answers. Featured researchers provide tools to increase human abilities to understand deep social realities, engage in better dialogues, and increase democratic participation in use of knowledge.Many people of all ages today continue to be attracted to sociology and other social sciences because of their promise to contribute to better political, social, and moral understandings of themselves and their social worlds-and often because they hope it will help them to build a better society. We accent the liberation potential of social science with these social science teachers and students firmly in mind.