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Nature, Choice and Social Power

By: Erica Schoenberger

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Nature, Choice and Social Power

By: Erica Schoenberger

We are at an environmental impasse. Many blame our personal choices about the things we consume and the way we live. This is only part of the problem. Different forms of social power - political, economic and ideological - structure the choices we have available. This book analyses how we make social and environmental history and why we end up where we do. Using case studies from different environmental domains – earth and water, air and fire – Nature, Choice and Social Power examines the form that social power takes and how it can harm the environment and hinder our efforts to act in our own best interests. The case studies challenge conventional wisdoms about why gold is valuable, why the internal combustion engine triumphed, and when and why suburbs sprawled. The book shows how the power of individuals, the power of classes, the power of the market and the power of the state at different times and in different ways were critical to setting us on a path to environmental degradation. It also challenges conventional wisdoms about what we need to do now. Rather than reducing consumption and shrinking from outcomes we don’t want, it proposes growing towards outcomes we do want. We invested massive resources in creating our problems; it will take equally large investments to fix them. Written in a clear and engaging style, the book is underpinned with a political economy framework and addresses how we should understand our responsibility to the environment and to each other as individuals within a large and impersonal system.

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Routledge

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1135051585

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Nature, Choice and Social Power

By: Erica Schoenberger

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395

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1135051577

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9781135051570

Building Little Saigon

Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs

By: Erica Allen-Kim

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Building Little Saigon

Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs

By: Erica Allen-Kim

An in-depth look at the diverging paths of Vietnamese American communities, or “Little Saigons,” in America’s built environment. In the final days before the fall of Saigon in 1975, 125,000 Vietnamese who were evacuated or who made their own way out of the country resettled in the United States. Finding themselves in unfamiliar places yet still connected in exile, these refugees began building their own communities as memorials to a lost homeland. Known both officially and unofficially as Little Saigons, these built landscapes offer space for everyday activities as well as the staging of cultural heritage and political events. Building Little Saigon examines nearly fifty years of city building by Vietnamese Americans—who number over 2.2 million today. Author Erica Allen-Kim highlights architecture and planning ideas adapted by the Vietnamese communities who, in turn, have influenced planning policies and mainstream practices. Allen-Kim traveled to ten Little Saigons in the United States to visit archives, buildings, and public art and to converse with developers, community planners, artists, business owners, and Vietnam veterans. By examining everyday buildings—who made them and what they mean for those who know them—Building Little Saigon shows us the complexities of migration unfolding across lifetimes and generations.

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316

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University of Texas Press

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1477323015

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9781477323014

The Cultural Crisis of the Firm

By: Erica Schoenberger

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The Cultural Crisis of the Firm

By: Erica Schoenberger

This is an examination of one of the most puzzling and important issues in western economic analysis - corporate inertia in the face of known threats to survival. The book is part synthetic, part based on intensive case studies, and part theoretical.

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272

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Wiley

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1557866384

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9781557866387

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Nature, Choice and Social Power

Nature, Choice and Social Power

Nature, Choice and Social Power

Nature, Choice and Social Power

Building Little Saigon

Building Little Saigon

The Cultural Crisis of the Firm

The Cultural Crisis of the Firm

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