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Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life

A Tar Sands Tale

By: Matt Hern,Am Johal

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Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life

A Tar Sands Tale

By: Matt Hern,Am Johal

Seeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises. Confounded by global warming and in search of an affirmative politics that links ecology with social change, Matt Hern and Am Johal set off on a series of road trips to the tar sands of northern Alberta—perhaps the world's largest industrial site, dedicated to the dirty work of extracting oil from Alberta's vast reserves. Traveling from culturally liberal, self-consciously “green” Vancouver, and aware that our well-meaning performances of recycling and climate-justice marching are accompanied by constant driving, flying, heating, and fossil-fuel consumption, Hern and Johal want to talk to people whose lives and fortunes depend on or are imperiled by extraction. They are seeking new definitions of ecology built on a renovated politics of land. Traveling with them is their friend Joe Sacco—infamous journalist and cartoonist, teller of complex stories from Gaza to Paris—who contributes illustrations and insights and a chapter-length comic about the contradictions of life in an oil town. The epic scale of the ecological horror is captured through an series of stunning color photos by award-winning aerial photographer Louis Helbig. Seamlessly combining travelogue, sophisticated political analysis, and ecological theory, speaking both to local residents and to leading scholars, the authors propose a new understanding of ecology that links the domination of the other-than-human world to the domination of humans by humans. They argue that any definition of ecology has to start with decolonization and that confronting global warming requires a politics that speaks to a different way of being in the world—a reconstituted understanding of the sweetness of life. Published with the help of funding from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan fund

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MIT Press

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O My Friends, There is No Friend

The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology

By: Matt Hern,Am Johal

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O My Friends, There is No Friend

The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology

By: Matt Hern,Am Johal

Can friendship as a political practice offer enough traction to imagine a borderless world? The startling contemporary rise in aggressive ethno-nationalism and end-times ecological crises have the same root: an inability to be together with humans as much as the natural world. Matt Hern and Am Johal suggest that porous renditions of being-together animated by friendship can spark a repoliticization of the political to surpass the foreclosures of the state, speak to a freedom of movement, and find renovated relationships with the more-than-human. This volume includes interviews with Jean-Luc Nancy, Leela Gandhi and Leanne Simpson.

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125

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transcript Verlag

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3839470269

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9783839470268

Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life

A Tar Sands Tale

By: Matt Hern,Am Johal

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A Tar Sands Tale

By: Matt Hern,Am Johal

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Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life

Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life

O My Friends, There is No Friend

O My Friends, There is No Friend

Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life

Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life

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