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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Environmental Destruction"”.
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An Ecofeminist Perspective: Ecology and Feminism in the Works of Reinig, Maron, Morgner, and Wolf
… their condemnation of society and its course of environmental destruction that they feel will ultimately lead to the devastation of the planet. The relation of fiction to reality is impressed upon readers by actual news reports on environmental disaster. Although the novels often share a …
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Determinants and Implications of Chinese Involvement in Informal Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining in Ghana: Perspectives from the Grassroots
… this mining branch also presents huge environmental and social challenges due to weak regulation. Over the last decade, the proliferation of Chinese gold seekers into Ghana’s ASM, which is reserved officially for Ghanaians, has been noted to contribute to worsening social and …
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Ecofeminist Theology in Islam: The Process and Application of Synthesizing Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Insights, Islamic Feminist Aspirations, and Ecological Concerns
… Radford Ruether, Islamic feminism, and Islamic environmentalism towards the primary goal of making a case for the construction of an ecofeminist theology in Islam. Specifically, I seek to consolidate Islamic feminists and environmental theories and approaches while utilizing and bringing to bear …
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The magical land : ecological consciousness in fantasy romance
… consciousness and awareness of potential environmental destruction. Ecological awareness can be traced through critical analysis of various works of fantasy romance. J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as the text which marked the beginning of the modern fantasy romance form, shows the …
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Disaster and Hope in the Comic Universe of 'Gardening in the Tropics'
… gardening studies and Mona Lisa Saloy’s essay on environmental destruction. To conclude, I consider how the comic style might help mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis, if humanity — specifically the small percentage of folks who do the bulk of the consuming — should choose to adopt …
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Affective identification with animals in the public sphere in earth, the movie.
… a marked absence of connection between growing environmental destruction, and the modernist forms of consumption that underwrite western society. Further, Earth naturalizes discourses through anthropomorphic images, naturalizing the domination of humans and animals in everyday practice. …
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Environmental Transformative Justice: Responding to Ecocide
… and juridical responses to ecocide (i.e., grave environmental harm). More specifically, the work seeks to philosophically engage the ethical question of what is owed to human societies that are displaced due to intentional environmental destruction.</p> <p>The motivation behind the project stems …
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Pride Denied
… from imperial wars, settler colonialism, environmental destruction, and other human rights abuses. Lastly, the film explores how LGBT movements and organizing on issues such as marriage primarily address the interests of wealthy LGBT people while largely ignoring the needs of everyone else …
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Setting the Tone for Corporate Social Responsibility in Kenya- What Does the New Mining Act Have to Say?
… mineral booms, is likely to lead to social and environmental destruction. It is therefore important to evaluate the status of Kenya’s new mineral law, and what that means for the country’s ability to foster a sustainable future. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is discussed in relation to …
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There Must Be a Reason People Come Here
… of scarcity, in full view of a horizon of environmental destruction and vast inequalities burning down the present to control the future. They reside in the contradictions that today we each enjoy many privileges but receive fewer needs. As such the poems circulate a subjectless …
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Interpreting global justice : variations in perspectives of U.S. environmental organizations on environment, human rights, and social equity
Environmental movement organizations in the United States have engaged with the global justice movement differently depending on the extent to which they view human rights and social equity issues as part of their environmental work. These organizations, influenced by their organizational history …
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Coastal restoration and management as a strategy for wealth creation in Louisiana
… have extracted from the coast at the direct environmental and economic expense of local residents. An examination of the economic history of Louisiana's coast reveals how this disparity between coastal residents and users has produced deleterious environmental consequences, which have grown …
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Dynamo in the Desert: Energy Development and Environmental Contestation in the San Juan Basin, 1960-1985
… which is located in the culturally rich and environmentally diverse Four Corners region. Between 1960 and 1985 intensive coal-energy development—in the form of strip mines and power plants—took place in the western portion of the San Juan Basin. This period saw the enactment of major …
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Diamonds: Cultural Representations and Transformations of a "Girl's Best Friend"
… correlated with torture, rape, child labor, and environmental destruction. My three- manuscript dissertation covers the following topics: how diamond jewelry has become ingrained in American consumer culture, how lab-made diamond substitutes create new politics, and how diamonds created from …
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Nemo's Plight: Political Economy, Green-Cultural Criminology, and Fish Abuse
… and the trade in marine fish. Then I look at the destruction wrought by the treadmill itself, outlining the specific instances and macro-patterns of environmental destruction these narratives facilitate along the entire treadmill of production: from the widespread destruction of coral reef …
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The Abstract Ecology of Modern Life: Re-imagining Environments as Public Spheres
Many discourses within environmental political theory center on reconfiguring political structures to empower geographically situated populations to become public stewards of their local environments. However, in the developed world the hope for ecological self-government is doubly challenged by …
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Tiny Octopuses: The Successes, Struggles, and Failures of Short Lines and Branch Lines in Rural Nevada, California, and Oregon Between 1869 and 1920
… extraction, and unintentionally accelerated environmental destruction. Some of these routes became so economically valuable that the larger railroads purchased these smaller railroads to gain access to the remote areas. These small railroads also impacted the West in unexpected ways such as …
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The Poverty of Simplicity: Austerity, Alienation, and Tiny Houses
… to this lifestyle movement. For enthusiasts, environmental destruction, their indebtedness and financial precarity, their stress and alienation from work and life, in short, their lack of happiness or sense of purpose, originate in overconsumption. Tiny houses, because so few commodities can …
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A sociological study of the relationship between religious violence and economic globalization
… it continues to produce inequality, poverty, environmental destruction and unprecedented concentration of economic power for a few, while the majority are marginalized and excluded. For the local churches, the cumulative adverse effects of economic globalization and subsequent religious …
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Anthropomorphism and social issues in selected Namibian children’s literature
… that social issues such as discrimination, environmental destruction, crime, corruption, abuse and poverty are some of the prevalent problems raised in the various societies in Namibia. The study further revealed that most of the social issues are the consequences of the colonial legacy, the …
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