The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
This study examines the debates on, and processes of, land reform in Zimbabwe during the independence era, exploring the social, economic, and political contexts of perceptions of land redistribution and management.
In this short article, Rob Nixon reflects on a visit to South Africa and the relationship of the various kinds of inequality present in societies.
This article considers the parallels between the community of Lady Selborne, a township near Pretoria, South Africa, and the neighbourhood of Cidade de Deus (City of God) in Rio de Janeiro.
With an emphasis on national parks, this article examines the kinds of environmental edges particular to South Africa and to Africa more generally.
State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet introduces the latest agro-ecological innovations and their global applicability and also gives broader insights into issues including poverty, international politics, and even gender equity.
The writings of Erik Gustaf Geijer allow us to distinguish between two modes of thought in representations of scarcity: the idealization of scarcity as the “simple life” and its problematization in discourses on poverty.
This film explores the negative impacts of the multi-billion dollar carbon offsetting industry on those people who are most impacted but least heard.
This film criticizes the socioeconomic system of the Washington Consensus as being insufficient for overcoming global poverty, and argues that it is based on centuries of exploitation.
This award-winning documentary follows a controversial sugar development scheme in Mali. Some oppose its claims to offer inclusive development, and see it as a neocolonial venture.