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Agrotopias

An American Literary History of Sustainability

By: Abby L. Goode

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Agrotopias

An American Literary History of Sustainability

By: Abby L. Goode

In this book, Abby L. Goode reveals the foundations of American environmentalism and the enduring partnership between racism, eugenics, and agrarian ideals in the United States. Throughout the nineteenth century, writers as diverse as Martin Delany, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Walt Whitman worried about unsustainable conditions such as population growth and plantation slavery. In response, they imagined agrotopias—sustainable societies unaffected by the nation's agricultural and population crises—elsewhere. Though seemingly progressive, these agrotopian visions depicted selective breeding and racial "improvement" as the path to environmental stability. In this fascinating study, Goode uncovers an early sustainability rhetoric interested in shaping, just as much as sustaining, the American population. Showing how ideas about race and reproduction were central to early sustainability thinking, Goode unearths an alternative environmental archive that ranges from gothic novels to Black nationalist manifestos, from Waco, Texas, to the West Indies, from city tenements to White House kitchen gardens. Exposing the eugenic foundations of some of our most well-regarded environmental traditions, this book compels us to reexamine the benevolence of American environmental thought.

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UNC Press Books

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1469669838

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9781469669830

Science by the People

Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge

By: Aya H. Kimura,Abby Kinchy

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Science by the People

Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge

By: Aya H. Kimura,Abby Kinchy

Studies show that citizen science projects--projects involving nonprofessionals--face dilemmas ranging from austerity to presumed boundaries between science and activism. By unpacking the politics of citizen science, this book aims to help people negotiate a complex political landscape and choose paths moving toward social change and environmental sustainability.

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240

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Rutgers University Press

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081359507X

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9780813595078

Encyclopedia of the American Novel

By: Abby H. P. Werlock

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Encyclopedia of the American Novel

By: Abby H. P. Werlock

Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.

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Infobase Learning

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143814069X

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At the Crossing of Seven Winds: L.Ayliffe D.J.Brick F.Frosini D.Hine G.Italyanskaya M.Menon A.Sze

By: Daniel J. Brick,Leah Ayliffe,Diane Hine

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At the Crossing of Seven Winds: L.Ayliffe D.J.Brick F.Frosini D.Hine G.Italyanskaya M.Menon A.Sze

By: Daniel J. Brick,Leah Ayliffe,Diane Hine

«Nature is wild and eagles and wolves will never be lovers. But certainly Poetry can overcome every obstacle and translates our dreams, desires, passions,.. in images that evoke even a new, different Universe» ~ «It fulfills the very nature of poetry that we 7 poets publish our poems in a common anthology and witness how these diverse poems reflect each other, relate to each other, amplify each other »~ This Anthology of Poetry collects 72 poems from 7 Authors living in 7 different Countries of the World. ~ As Fabrizio Frosini puts it: «When I first proposed this idea for a book to my Minnesotan friend Daniel Brick, we decided together to open it to other "voices of poetry" from different parts of our troubled world. Maybe we put it a bit too emphatically, like "voices of poetry conveying the joy of creativity," to point out the real issues of human passions mediated through poetry. Yet, Poetry is a sum of hope and despair. It is a sum of wishes, hopes, dreams, inspirations, wanderings on the wings of Imagination. It is a long flight our hearts and minds took, revisiting reality, memories, expectations. Life itself is revisited through the multicolored glasses of poetry. As Dylan Thomas wrote: "These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man" and, I add, they are written out of the joy of creativity, even when created in the darkest moments of despairing depression. Everyone who reads our poetry enters our own Universe -even if for a while. Through Poetry, we all -Authors and Readers- are in touch.»

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Independently Published

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1980963819

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9781980963813

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Agrotopias

Agrotopias

Science by the People

Science by the People

Encyclopedia of the American Novel

Encyclopedia of the American Novel

At the Crossing of Seven Winds: L.Ayliffe D.J.Brick F.Frosini D.Hine G.Italyanskaya M.Menon A.Sze

At the Crossing of Seven Winds: L.Ayliffe D.J.Brick F.Frosini D.Hine G.Italyanskaya M.Menon A.Sze

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