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All we want is the earth : land, labour and movements beyond environmentalism /

This book traces a counter-history of modern environmentalism from the 1960s to the present day. It focuses on claims concerning land, labour and social reproduction arising at important moments in the history of environmentalism made by feminist, anti-colonial, Indigenous, workers' and agraria...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Bresnihan, Patrick (Autor), Millner, Naomi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover
  • All we Want is the Earth: Land, Labour and Movements Beyond Environmentalism
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures and Boxes
  • About the Authors
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Introduction: Beyond Modern Environmentalism
  • A brief history of modern environmentalism
  • The birth of a movement: environmentalism since the 1960s
  • Blindspots in modern environmentalism
  • (Anti-)colonial geographies
  • Struggles for labour and livelihood
  • Lived ecologies and everyday experiments
  • All we want is the earth
  • Situating the authors
  • Structure of the book
  • 2 Suburb, Field, Laboratory: Recomposing Geographies of Early Environmentalism
  • Situating Silent Spring
  • Industrial workers, pesticides and environmental health
  • Mexico as a field-lab for Green Revolution technologies
  • Conclusion
  • First Interlude: Green and White Dreams
  • 3 Revolt Against One-Worldism: Radical Claims on Land and Work Post-1968
  • 1968 and the world problematique
  • 'Proletarians of the world, unite!': work, social reproduction and ecological crisis
  • Radical claims on land: anti-colonial struggles and creative connections
  • Anti-colonial groundwork
  • Plot and plantation
  • Conclusion
  • Second Interlude: Planetary Icons
  • 4 The Right to Subsist: Transnational Commons Against the Enclosure of Environments and Environmentalism
  • The new enclosures
  • The emergence of La Vía Campesina as a response to neoliberal globalisation
  • A new transnational movement
  • Madre Tierra
  • From the Niger Delta to Rossport: resource extraction, Indigenous rights and postcolonialism
  • Ya basta! Alter-globalisation and the Zapatista commons
  • Conclusion
  • Third Interlude: Witnessing in the Global Resonance Machine
  • 5 Earth Politics: Disagreement and Emergent Indigeneity in the So-Called Anthropocene
  • Provincialising the Anthropocene: the People's Earth Summit
  • Earth politics in Salvadoran permaculture practices
  • Standing Rock: water is life
  • Conclusion
  • Fourth Interlude: Making Things Resonate
  • Seeds of change: a floating ballast seed garden (Bristol), 2012-2016 (Maria Theresa Alves)
  • Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research
  • T.U.R.F. (Transitional Understandings of Rural Futures), 2013 (Deirdre O'Mahony)
  • CLIMAVORE
  • 6 Conclusion: Resonance Beyond Environmentalism
  • Movements beyond environmentalism
  • Resonance beyond environmentalism
  • Conclusion
  • Coda: Afterlives
  • Notes
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Second Interlude
  • Chapter 4
  • Third Interlude
  • Chapter 5
  • Fourth Interlude
  • Chapter 6
  • References
  • Index