Mexican Americans and the Environment : Tierra y Vida /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : "La tierra es vida"
- Overview of environmental issues and the Mexican-origin people
- Overview of the book
- Notes
- 1. Principles of scientific ecology
- Succession to climax or accidental associations?
- Nature as ecosystem
- The web of life
- The land ethic
- Stability and change in ecosystems
- Critiques of cybernetic ecology
- Discussion questions
- Suggested readings
- Notes
- 2. Ecologies of chaos
- The ecology of disturbance
- Anthropogenesis : placing people in the environment
- Discussion questions
- Suggested readings
- Notes
- 3. Environmental history of mega-Mexico, El Sur
- Changing biological and cultural diversity of mega-Mexico
- Pre-contact civilizations
- The Spanish colonial ecological revolution
- Discussion questions
- Suggested readings
- Notes
- 4. Environmental history of mega-Mexico, El Norte
- Ecological worldviews
- Ecological revolutions in El Norte
- Biological diversity in El Norte
- Ancestral civilizations and environmental change
- First nations and the Mexican-origin people
- The Norteña/o Ecological Revolution, 1598--1848
- The Industrial-Capitalist Ecological Revolution, 1848--1950
- A century of precursors
- Concluding thoughts
- Discussion questions
- Suggested readings
- Notes
- 5. A Chicana/o critique of mainstream American environmentalism
- Natural resource conservation
- Wilderness preservation
- Professional environmentalism : the group of ten
- Rachel Carson and the roots of radical environmentalism
- Concluding thoughts
- Discussion questions
- Suggested readings
- Notes
- 6. A Chicana/o critique of radical American environmentalism
- Deep ecology
- Social ecology
- Ecofeminism
- Ecosocialism
- Bioregionalism
- The antitoxics movement
- The environmental justice movement (EJM)
- Concluding thoughts
- Discussion questions
- Suggested readings
- Notes
- 7. Ecological politics and the Mexican-origin people, 1980--2002
- Nos Matan en Cosechas Tóxicas : farmworkers and the environment
- Donde Están? : farmworker health care and housing
- Nos Matan en Malditas Fábricas : factory workers and the environment
- Se Robaron Nuestra tierra madre : land grants and the environment
- Sin Agua no hay vida : Acequia farmers and the environment
- Hacen Ruinas de Nuestras Vecindades : political ecology of the barrio
- Somos Humanos y No Lo Olvidan : rural colonias and the environment
- Concluding thoughts : is the Earth local?
- Discussion questions
- Suggested readings
- Notes
- Conclusion : Mexican-origin people and the future of environmentalism
- Future trends and emerging issues
- Final words
- Notes
- Glossary.