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Women and Agribusiness

Working Miracles in the Chilean Fruit Export Sector

By: Stephanie Barrientos,Anna Bee,Ann Matear,Isabel Vogel

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Women and Agribusiness

Working Miracles in the Chilean Fruit Export Sector

By: Stephanie Barrientos,Anna Bee,Ann Matear,Isabel Vogel

Fresh fruit exported from Chile has become commonplace in our supermarkets during the winter months. Women form a large part of the seasonal labour force in this branch of Chilean agribusiness. This book provides an in-depth examination of the 'fruit explosion' in Chile, and the implications for rural women of working in agribusiness. It examines state policies to support seasonal workers, and asks whether supermarket codes of conduct will benefit these workers in the context of a global economy.

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Springer

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1349272167

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9781349272167

Stung!

On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

By: Lisa-ann Gershwin

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Stung!

On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

By: Lisa-ann Gershwin

“The world of jellyfish is brought alive as you never imagined it could be by Lisa-ann Gershwin in this engaging, gripping, and often funny book.” —Callum Roberts, author of The Ocean of Life As our oceans become increasingly inhospitable to life, there is one creature that is thriving in this seasick environment: the beautiful, dangerous, and now incredibly numerous jellyfish. As foremost jellyfish expert Lisa-ann Gershwin describes in Stung!, the jellyfish population bloom is highly indicative of the tragic state of the world’s ocean waters, while also revealing the incredible tenacity of these remarkable creatures. Despite their often dazzling appearance, jellyfish are simple creatures with simple needs: namely, fewer predators and competitors, warmer waters to encourage rapid growth, and more places for their larvae to settle and grow. In general, oceans that are less favorable to fish are more favorable to jellyfish, and these are the very conditions that we are creating through mechanized trawling, habitat degradation, coastal construction, pollution, and climate change. Despite their role as harbingers of marine destruction, jellyfish are truly enthralling creatures in their own right, and in Stung!, Gershwin tells stories of jellyfish both attractive and deadly while illuminating many interesting and unusual facts about their behaviors and environmental adaptations. She takes readers back to the Proterozoic era, when jellyfish were the top predator in the marine ecosystem—at a time when there were no fish, no mammals, and no turtles; and she explores the role jellies have as middlemen of destruction, moving swiftly into vulnerable ecosystems. The story of the jellyfish, as Gershwin makes clear, is also the story of the world’s oceans, and Stung! provides a unique and urgent look at their inseparable histories—and future.

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455

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University of Chicago Press

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022602024X

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9780226020242

Activist Faith

Grassroots Women in Democratic Brazil and Chile

By: Carol Ann Drogus,Hannah Stewart-Gambino

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Activist Faith

Grassroots Women in Democratic Brazil and Chile

By: Carol Ann Drogus,Hannah Stewart-Gambino

An extensive and powerful literature on religion, society, and politics in Latin America in recent years has begun with the assumption that most of the movements that surged in the struggle against military rule are dead, that most of the activists are scattered and burned out, and that the promise of civil society as a source of new values and a new kind of citizenship and political life was illusory. Many have assumed that the religiously inspired activism of that period left little lasting impact, but hardly anyone has actually looked at the activists themselves to see what remains, how they cope in a different, more open environment, and how they see and act on the present and future. Activist Faith addresses these issues with a wealth of empirical detail from two key cases and with a richly interdisciplinary argument that draws on theorizing about social movements. The authors strive to understand what sustains activism and movements in radically different circumstances from those in which they arose. Their analysis is enriched by systematic attention to the impact of gender and gender-related issues on activism and movements. In the process, they shed much needed light on the fate of the activists and social movements that rose to prominence throughout Latin America during the 1980s. This beautifully written book is a major achievement that gives us analytical tools for studying how movements and activists survive in the doldrums and when a cycle of protest peaks and societies move on."—Daniel H. Levine, University of Michigan

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230

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Penn State Press

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0271046481

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9780271046488

Fisheries and Aquacultures Development in Sabah

Implicatins fpr Society, Culture and Ecology

By: Fadzilah Majid Cooke,Ejria Salleh,Lee Hock Ann

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Fisheries and Aquacultures Development in Sabah

Implicatins fpr Society, Culture and Ecology

By: Fadzilah Majid Cooke,Ejria Salleh,Lee Hock Ann

Fisheries and Aquaculture Development in Sabah: implications for Society, Culture and Ecology builds on a trend in studies of social change of taking the environment seriously. Coming from the disciplines of sociology, economics and marine science the authors deal with issues of sustainability in economic, social and ecological terms. The overall political ecology approach of the book diversifies into sub-themes as the chapters engage with frameworks on the ecological limits of economic development, entitlements and well-being, participatory development, gender and knowledge production, science and citizenship as well as the symbolic and material value of national and international borders. Ecological aquaculture introduces new livelihood opportunities as well as losses. And it has a degree of ecological costs depending on environmental conditions and power relations that affect local production. We argue in this book that social and environmental justice issues are connected so that effective solutions to environmental problems can only be devised if the social justice issues are paid attention to. This general thrust in placing centre stage social and environmental justice issues is not unique to Sabah since these are issues experienced by developing countries similarly positioned in their dependence on natural resources for economic development.

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155

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Universiti Malaysia Sabah Press

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9672962606

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9789672962601

Women and Agribusiness

Working Miracles in the Chilean Fruit Export Sector

By: Stephanie Barrientos,Anna Bee,Ann Matear,Isabel Vogel

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Working Miracles in the Chilean Fruit Export Sector

By: Stephanie Barrientos,Anna Bee,Ann Matear,Isabel Vogel

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Women and Agribusiness

Women and Agribusiness

Stung!

Stung!

Activist Faith

Activist Faith

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Women and Agribusiness

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