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Climate without Nature

A Critical Anthropology of the Anthropocene

By: Andrew M. Bauer,Mona Bhan

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Climate without Nature

A Critical Anthropology of the Anthropocene

By: Andrew M. Bauer,Mona Bhan

This book offers a critical reading of the Anthropocene that draws on archaeological, ecological, geological, and ethnographic evidence to argue that the concept reproduces the modernist binary between society and nature, and forecloses a more inclusive politics around climate change. The authors challenge the divisions between humans as biological and geophysical agents that constitute the ontological foundations of the period. Building on contemporary critiques of capitalism, they examine different conceptions of human–environment relationships derived from anthropology to engage with the pressing problem of global warming.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108530117

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9781108530118

Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India

From Warfare to Welfare?

By: Mona Bhan

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Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India

From Warfare to Welfare?

By: Mona Bhan

The rhetoric of armed social welfare has become prominent in military and counterinsurgency circuits with profound consequences for the meanings of democracy, citizenship, and humanitarianism in conflict zones. By focusing on the border district of Kargil, the site of India and Pakistan’s fourth war in 1999, this book analyses how humanitarian policies of healing and heart warfare infused the logic of democracy and militarism in the post-war period. Compassion became a strategy to contain political dissension, regulate citizenship, and normalize the extensive militarization of Kargil’s social and political order. The book uses the power of ethnography to foreground people’s complex subjectivities and the violence of compassion, healing, and sacrifice in India’s disputed frontier state. Based on extensive research in several sites across the region, from border villages in Kargil to military bases and state offices in Ladakh and Kashmir, this engaging book presents new material on military-civil relations, the securitization of democracy and development, and the extensive militarization of everyday life and politics. It is of interest to scholars working in diverse fields including political anthropology, development, and Asian Studies.

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249

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Routledge

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1134509839

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9781134509836

Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South

By: Mona Domosh

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Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South

By: Mona Domosh

Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South documents how Black employees of the cooperative extension service of the USDA practiced rural improvement in ways that sustained southern Black farmers' lives and livelihoods in the early decades of the twentieth century, resisting the white supremacy that characterized the Jim Crow South. Mona Domosh details the various mechanisms-the transformation of home demonstration projects, the development of a movable school, and the establishment of Black landowning communities-through which these employees were able to alter USDA's mandates and redirect its funds. These tweakings and translations of USDA directives enabled these employees to support poor Black farmers by promoting food production, health care, and land and home ownership, thus disturbing a system of plantation agriculture that relied on the devaluing of Black lives. Through the documentation of these efforts, Domosh uncovers an important and previously unknown episode in the long history of international development that highlights the roots of liberal development schemes in the anti-Black racism that constituted plantation agriculture and illustrates how racist systems can be quietly and subtly resisted by everyday people working within the confines of white supremacy.

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177

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University of Georgia Press

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0820363553

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9780820363554

Resilience of Informal Areas in Megacities – Magnitude, Challenges, and Policies

Strategic Environmental Assessment and Upgrading Guidelines to Attain Sustainable Development Goals

By: Mohsen M. Aboulnaga,Mona F. Badran,Mai M. Barakat

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Resilience of Informal Areas in Megacities – Magnitude, Challenges, and Policies

Strategic Environmental Assessment and Upgrading Guidelines to Attain Sustainable Development Goals

By: Mohsen M. Aboulnaga,Mona F. Badran,Mai M. Barakat

This book focuses on the socio-economic and sustainability challenges facing megacities in dealing with the dramatic population increases of informal areas and settlements (or slums), especially when coupled with the impacts and risks of climate change. The authors examine informal urban areas globally and in developing countries utilizing strategic environmental assessment (SEA) as a tool to solve the sequence of upgrading steps concerning slums and shanty towns, and also establish essential guidelines for local governments and stakeholders to create a balance and quality of life for slums dwellers, particularly in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic, through applying sustainability indicators that enhance the upgrading process. Coverage includes recent statistics and mapping of informal areas worldwide and assessment of the GIZ and Sir Norman Foster models in terms of energy demands and consequential emission of CO2 and air pollution from slums. Three models of Maspero’s Triangle are also studied and assessed. The book is essential reading for a wide range of researchers, students, policymakers, governments, and professionals as well as a good source for research centers and academicians working in energy, climate change, urban environments, and sustainable urban development.

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363

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Springer Nature

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3030877949

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9783030877941

Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India

From Warfare to Welfare?

By: Mona Bhan

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From Warfare to Welfare?

By: Mona Bhan

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1134509901

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Climate without Nature

Climate without Nature

Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India

Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India

Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South

Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South

Resilience of Informal Areas in Megacities – Magnitude, Challenges, and Policies

Resilience of Informal Areas in Megacities – Magnitude, Challenges, and Policies

Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India

Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India

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