Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
This book discusses Marx’s ecological principles and materialistic views that can be traced back to mid-nineteenth-century social and scientific thought.
This book discusses Marx’s ecological principles and materialistic views that can be traced back to mid-nineteenth-century social and scientific thought.
This issue of Earth First! is filled with essays about various themes such as sustainable agriculture, nuclear disarmament, and deep ecology.
This film follows activists campaigning for the legalization of industrial hemp, which they believe has great potential for sustainability.
This film examines the global reach of transgenic agricultural technology through the use of genetically modified soy produced in Argentina and used as pig feed in Denmark, as well as the far-reaching health consequences in both countries.
The focus on human-environment relations from the perspective of climate change alone is too narrow. Often, society experiences climate change through political and technical decisions, rather than as an environmental crisis.
Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin’s vision of a total “transformation of nature.” By the time of Stalin’s death, however, these attempts at “transformation” had proven a spectacular failure. This richly detailed volume, In the Name of the Great Work follows the history of such projects in three communist states—Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia—and explores their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.
Disrupted Landscapes focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers.
Environmental Anthropology Engaging Ecotopia brings together case studies from across the globe to reveal underlying cultural ontologies and call for more integration between the work of scholars and practitioners.
The author seeks to bring together environmental anthropology and history to frame the place of forests in humans’ lives, from a political ecology point of view. He does this by reflecting on his personal experiences in Northeast India, Kenya, and Sweden.