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Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics

The Cultural and Political Landscape of Anishinaabe Anti-Clearcutting Activism

By: Paul Kevin Wapner

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Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics

The Cultural and Political Landscape of Anishinaabe Anti-Clearcutting Activism

By: Paul Kevin Wapner

Based on case studies of three transnational groups, it argues that in addition to lobbying governments, activists operate within and across societies to effect widespread change. They work through transnational social, economic, and cultural networks to alter corporate practices, educate vast numbers of people, pressure multilateral development banks, and shift standards of good conduct. Wapner argues that because this activity takes place outside the formal arena of inter-state politics, environmental activists practice "world civic politics"; they politicize global civil society.

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SUNY Press

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0791427897

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9780791427897

Is Wildness Over?

By: Paul Wapner

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Is Wildness Over?

By: Paul Wapner

Selected as one of The Progressive’s ‘Favourite Books of 2020’ Wildness was once integral to our ancestors' lives as they struggled to survive in an unpredictable environment. Today, most of us live in relative stability insulated from the vicissitudes of nature. Wildness is over, right? Wrong, argues leading environmental scholar Paul Wapner. Wildness may have disappeared from our immediate lives, but it’s been catapulted up to the global level. The planet itself has gone into spasm - calving glaciers, wildfires, heatwaves, mass extinction, and rising oceans all represent the new face of wildness. Rejecting paths offered by geoengineering and de-extinction to bring the Earth under control, Wapner calls instead for ‘rewilding’. This involves relinquishing the desire for comfort at all costs and welcoming greater uncertainty into our own lives. To save ourselves from global ruin, it is time to stop sanitizing and exerting mastery over the world and begin living humbly in it.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509532145

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9781509532148

Living Through the End of Nature

The Future of American Environmentalism

By: Paul Wapner

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Living Through the End of Nature

The Future of American Environmentalism

By: Paul Wapner

How environmentalism can reinvent itself in a postnature age: a proposal for navigating between naive naturalism and technological arrogance. Environmentalists have always worked to protect the wildness of nature but now must find a new direction. We have so tamed, colonized, and contaminated the natural world that safeguarding it from humans is no longer an option. Humanity's imprint is now everywhere and all efforts to “preserve” nature require extensive human intervention. At the same time, we are repeatedly told that there is no such thing as nature itself—only our own conceptions of it. One person's endangered species is another's dinner or source of income. In Living Through the End of Nature, Paul Wapner probes the meaning of environmentalism in a postnature age. Wapner argues that we can neither go back to a preindustrial Elysium nor forward to a technological utopia. He proposes a third way that takes seriously the breached boundary between humans and nature and charts a co-evolutionary path in which environmentalists exploit the tension between naturalism and mastery to build a more sustainable, ecologically vibrant, and socially just world. Beautifully written and thoughtfully argued, Living Through the End of Nature provides a powerful vision for environmentalism's future

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267

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MIT Press

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0262518791

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9780262518796

Global Environmental Politics

From Person to Planet

By: Simon Nicholson,Paul Wapner

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Global Environmental Politics

From Person to Planet

By: Simon Nicholson,Paul Wapner

Today's students want to understand not only the causes and character of global environmental problems like climate change, species extinction, and freshwater scarcity, but also what to do about them. This book offers the most comprehensive, fair-minded, accessible, and forward-looking text for introducing students to the challenge of global environmental protection. Drawing on a diverse range of voices, the book sequentially explains our current predicament, examines what is being done to respond at a variety of levels from the international to the local, and outlines different, relevant strategic choices for genuine political engagement. Developed by two top researchers and master teachers of global environmental politics, the book brings together sharply written introductory essays with tightly edited selections from a broad cross section of thinkers to provide a text that will excite and educate students of global environmental affairs. In addition, the book introduces a series of exercises designed specifically to help students draw connections between their own lives and the broader challenge of global sustainability. Global Environmental Politics: From Person to Planet finally answers the question of how to teach students about environmental harm with a sober sense of ecological reality, a firm grasp on politics, and an optimistic look toward the future. Features of This Innovative Text Reader: Original section introductions by the volume editors cover key topics such as the four major planetary challenges (climate, extinction, water, and food); leading causes of environmental harm; the role of states, markets, and civil society; race, class, and geopolitical difference; and the value of thinking strategically and using a broad political imagination. Carefully selected and judiciously edited readings from a wide range of sources feature high-profile authors from popular as well as specialist media. Action-oriented exercises engage students in being part of the solution.

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Routledge

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1315479036

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9781315479033

The President and the Supreme Court

Going Public on Judicial Decisions from Washington to Trump

By: Paul M. Collins (Jr.),Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha

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The President and the Supreme Court

Going Public on Judicial Decisions from Washington to Trump

By: Paul M. Collins (Jr.),Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha

Examines the relationship between the president and the Supreme Court, including how presidents view the norm of judicial independence.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108498485

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9781108498487

Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics

By: Paul Kevin Wapner

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Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics

By: Paul Kevin Wapner

Wapner (school of int'l service, American U.) presents an even-handed analysis of the strategies transnational activist groups use to pursue their goals, as well as their effects on environmental affairs and international relations. Includes case studies on Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund, and Friends of the Earth. Large bibliography. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Marcombo

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0791427900

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Book's by Paul Kevin Wapner

Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics

Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics

Is Wildness Over?

Is Wildness Over?

Living Through the End of Nature

Living Through the End of Nature

Global Environmental Politics

Global Environmental Politics

The President and the Supreme Court

The President and the Supreme Court

Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics

Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics

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