This book makes explicit the racial, ethnic, and gendered forms of environmental injustice that culminate from the collective, intersecting, and multi-scaler consequences of a seemingly anonymous authoritarian state willing to maintain white supremacy at any cost, including poisoning an entire city and shutting off water to thousands of people"--
This timely and important scholarship advances an empirical understanding of Canada's contemporary "Indian" problem. Where the Waters Divide is one of the few book monographs that analyze how contemporary neoliberal reforms (in the manner of de-regulation, austerity measures, common sense policies, privatization, etc.) are woven through and shape contemporary racial inequality in Canadian society. Using recent controversies in drinking water contamination and solid waste and sewage pollution, Where the Waters Divide illustrates in concrete ways how cherished notions of liberalism and common sense reform -- neoliberalism -- also constitute a particular form of racial oppression and white privilege. Where the Waters Divide brings together theories and concepts from four disciplines -- sociology, geography, Aboriginal studies, and environmental studies -- to build critical insights into the race relational aspects of neoliberal reform. In particular, the book argues that neoliberalism represents a key moment in time for the racial formation in Canada, one that functions not through overt forms of state sanctioned racism, as in the past, but via the morality of the marketplace and the primacy of individual solutions to modern environmental and social problems. Furthermore, Mascarenhas argues, because most Canadians are not aware of this pattern of laissez faire racism, and because racism continues to be associated with intentional and hostile acts, Canadians can dissociate themselves from this form of economic racism, all the while ignoring their investment in white privilege. Where the Waters Divide stands at a provocative crossroads. Disciplinarily, it is where the social construction of water, an emerging theme within Cultural Studies and Environmental Sociology, meets the social construction of expertise -- one of the most contentious areas within the social sciences. It is also where the political economy of natural resources, an emerging theme in Development and Globalization Studies, meets the Politics of Race Relations -- an often-understudied area within Environmental Studies. Conceptually, the book stands where the racial formation associated with natural resources reform is made and re-made, and where the dominant form of white privilege is contrasted with anti-neoliberal social movements in Canada and across the globe.
“An excellent addition to courses on development, inequality, public policy, and globalization, and it could . . . be read by an audience beyond sociologists.”—American Journal of Sociology Soaring poverty levels and 24-hour media coverage of global disasters have caused a surge in the number of international non-governmental organizations that address suffering on a massive scale. But how are these new global networks transforming the politics and power dynamics of humanitarian policy and practice? In New Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Charity, Michael Mascarenhas considers that issue using water management projects in India and Rwanda as case studies. Mascarenhas analyzes the complex web of agreements ?both formal and informal?that are made between businesses, governments, and aid organizations, as well as the contradictions that arise when capitalism meets humanitarianism. “Insightful . . . provides a scathing critique of the new humanitarianism.” —University of Chicago Press Journals
This book is based upon Christ's words and tells you how you can know for sure that you are saved and will spend eternity in heaven. There are many false plans of salvation being taught by the great preachers of today which will not save you or prevent you from standing before Christ at the Great White Throne Judgement. When one stands before Christ at this judgement, they will be cast into the lake of fire for all eternity. Michael Bowen holds a Master's degree in English (Technical and Professional Communication) from East Carolina University. He is currently teaching college-level English composition at a community college and operates an IBM AS400 computer at a local hospital. He enjoys astronomy, martial arts, and reading.
In late 2010, feeling a sense of self conviction and family moral responsibility, it was laid on Michael's heart to read the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelations. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, Michael gathered these writings as a result of his learnings. While many are blinded and have blurred vision, Michael will provide The Lens."But we are not disciples. The true question is whether or not we were striving for discipleship in the first place? We are nothing more than mere religious folk carrying out civil responsibility to satisfy the displeasure of our own conscious. If we were disciples, we'll all have the same answers; that is understanding." -Michael P. Bellamy
You Never Know contains two original Christian drama plays by teenager Michael Jayne, a student at Pike Christian Academy in Waverly, Ohio. The title play, You Never Know, is about events that may have taken place inside the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The play focuses on a group of office workers from the 98th floor and how the disaster effects their Christian beliefs. The second play in the book, listen., co-authored by another student at PCA, Alana Perry, centers around a teenage girl who moves to a new town after her parents separate. She struggles with the move and makes several wrong decisions until the friendship of a special Christian girl shows her the right direction.
In As the Broken White Lines Become One, Michael Gehring recounts his spiritual journey through the landscape of late-twentieth-century southern American Christianity. This account depicts how and why he drifted away from the Roman Catholic Church, fellowshipped for a while with the Assemblies of God, sojourned for a prolonged time as an outsider to the institutional church, and eventually found a theological home within United Methodism. What follows is a spiritual journey with a lot of turns. The work is not intended to be a complete autobiography. Significant biographical details and relationships are not included as this narrative focuses on the shifting and sifting grounds of American Christian denominations. This chronicle primarily concerns the spiritual journey that led him to United Methodism and what it was like, not only to choose it, but also to inhabit it.
Flying home to New York I pictured my boxes of diaries being delivered, driven like a western covered wagon train slowly rolling across America. Back in hometown the collection of stories grew by searching for a church, new jobs, another dog and stumbling in and out of love. January of 2002 after having major surgery I began reading 240 diaries and shaping events. Honoring God by illuminating my trials and blessings was my motive for writing. Telling the story of Gods love became my objective. By 2007 I quit one part time job to carve out quality time as writing matured into a daily labor of love. In March 2012 I discovered Westbow Press. Prayerfully putting my manuscript into the hands of their editors, the hard work of rewriting progressed. My hope is to encourage those who think they know Jesus as Savior to be sure and obey Him as Lord. Lord willing many more will come to love Him.
Why on God's green earth would man perpetrate such vile, anti-God thinking and worse, train our children to do so? What's the catch? What's the hidden agenda here? Why the big lie? Michael Rhoads claims to be nothing more than he is. He is an observer of life as filtered through the grid of scripture. No PhDs, zero degrees; just an honest estimation of modern man. Michael is happily married with six offspring.
What is awareness?That seems a vague question because awareness isn't a tangible thing to reach out and grab—but at the same time, it's not magic. So what about the phrase “I think, therefore I am,” as Rene Descartes said; is that the answer? I'm aware that it's happening, therefore awareness is something?Instead of explaining awareness just yet, let's try this approach: how long will it take the entire world, with its global Internet, media, and telecommunications system, to be as fast as the human brain? Twenty-five, fifty, maybe a hundred years? Given enough time and with absolute connectivity, would everything that is lucid in the world become part of a massive unified portal—a global intelligence? Could it be that the speed at which everything connects is all that it would take for this entire system to become a fully conscious superorganism?Well, it may not be that simple, considering the complexity of the brain. Many parts of the brain have yet to appear in our global collective, but there are similarities. The information retrieval or “Google” part of the brain is there. Through telephones, computers, and even TV ratings, we are like neurons responding to stimulus. Political news can send the political forums into a panic, or an earthquake can activate a plethora of healing entities oozing into the affected area. Add it all up and it's like a global brain responding to stimuli. Of course it's not in real time yet, but it's growing, connections are getting faster, and I'm sure there are many flavors of technology yet to be developed.At the core of human dignity is a thread of free will that is being threatened by the ever-developing, machine-based world briefly described above. As our interactions become more and more virtual it is important to remember that humanity's greatest achievement is awareness and the most integral and profound element of our awareness is free will. But in order to have free will there must first be choices, and choices do not exist if everyone is plugged into machinery that makes them for us.Presenting the messages of self-deception and self-reception, Michael Howell's philosophy on personal growth and the human condition demonstrates how our problems begin from within and can continue or cease based on a global level of accountability. Not to be mistaken for another human rights movement, this is an effort to preserve the freedom of being human in the face of ever increasing, dehumanizing factors brought on by technology. Using tenets of spirituality, philosophy, and empiricism, he examines three main premises: first, the testimony of his childhood development and how it relates to the concept of responsibility; second, a philosophical inquiry into the nature of our search for technological progress and how we use it to replace spirituality with something tangible; and third, he discusses choice, the possibility of free will, and how it relates to the core of humanity, our spirituality, and ultimately, human dignity. The last two premises are shown to be in direct conflict, because with the progression of the collective society there is a potential for a regression of the individual. To combat this we must take responsibility for who we are being, not only as individuals but on a global level. With each passing year the collective machine continues to develop and improve, degrading the human spirit. And so, one has to wonder: will there be any truly human experience left during the next two thousand years?Neither self-help manual nor how-to guide, Michael's debut is instead a battle cry to retain human dignity above technological progress, efficiently and clearly breaking down the danger of the current split in consciousness that is occurring. A thought provoking meditation on the nature of man the future of human society, In Search of an Army: Choosing a Reality That You Can Be Truly Proud Of demands that we battle the stupefying effect of technology to reclaim our spiritual essence.
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